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With exports to the United Kingdom accounting for about 3% of the European Union’s GDP – considerably higher for Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands – Brexit-induced frictions to global trade can hardly be taken
lightly.
It is not to be taken lightly, even if you are young and healthy.
It should not be dismissed
lightly.
To build a world in which humans “do no harm” and create space for nature to flourish, a broad swath of private protected areas – such as forests that are lightly, sustainably logged, and marine protected areas that allow only for small-scale, sustainable fishing – will also be needed.
I do not say this lightly;I believe it is a looming threat.
The phrase “Singapore-on-Thames” is shorthand for Britain becoming a low-tax,
lightly
regulated economy that can out-compete the sclerotic, over-regulated eurozone from a strategic position only 20 miles or so offshore.
Whether to employ heritable genome editing is not a decision we can take
lightly.
Schinas’s assertion, of course, skips
lightly
over racial grievances in Europe, such as in France’s banlieues.
Yes, the decision to play constitutional hardball must never be taken
lightly.
In this context, one must not take
lightly
Trump’s cynical and clumsy displays of religiosity.
Stepping
lightly
and glancing repeatedly at her husband, showing him a brave face full of sympathy she entered the sick-room, and, turning without haste, noiselessly closed the door.
He ordered raw or very
lightly
boiled eggs, and seltzer water with new milk at a certain temperature.
Was it not youth that he was experiencing now, when coming out again on the other side of the wood he saw, in the bright slanting sunbeams, the graceful form of Varenka in her yellow dress and with a basket on her arm, stepping
lightly
past the trunk of an old birch, and when the impression of Varenka merged into one with the view that had so struck him with its beauty: the view of the field of ripening oats bathed in the slanting sunbeams and the old forest beyond, flecked with yellow, fading away into the bluish distance.
Quickly and
lightly
descending the steps that led from the water-tank to the rails, she stopped close to the passing tram.
'But I will not now on any account dispute or express my opinions lightly,' he thought.
Alzire slept lightly, and Lénore and Henri were found in the morning, in each other's arms, exactly as they had gone to sleep.
When he reappeared he struck
lightly
with his fist to call for attention; then he began in a hoarse voice:"Citizens!"
Then he disappeared in the shadow, so
lightly
that the sound of his naked feet could not be heard.
"But it seems to me that in this semidarkness, amid this liquid that's so dense in comparison to the atmosphere, a gunshot couldn't carry far and would prove fatal only with difficulty!""On the contrary, sir, with this rifle every shot is fatal; and as soon as the animal is hit, no matter how lightly, it falls as if struck by lightning."
So saying, he leaped
lightly
onto the sand.
Emma, who had taken his arm, bent
lightly
against his shoulder, and she looked at the sun's disc shedding afar through the mist his pale splendour.
They rowed down in the midst of moored boats, whose long oblique cables grazed
lightly
against the bottom of the boat.
One morning, when she had gone, as usual, rather
lightly
clothed, it suddenly began to snow, and as Charles was watching the weather from the window, he caught sight of Monsieur Bournisien in the chaise of Monsieur Tuvache, who was driving him to Rouen.
And he tipped up the papers lightly, as if to shake out napoleons.
A little sharp sound was heard; the catch of the window gave way; he pushed it open and sprang
lightly
into the room.
So long as you did not speak
lightly
of God, or of the clergy, or of the King, or of the men in power, or of the artists patronised by the court, or of anything established; so long as you did not say anything good of Beranger, or of the opposition press, or of Voltaire, or of Rousseau, or of anything that allowed itself the liberty of a little freedom of speech; so long, above all, as you did not talk politics, you could discuss anything you pleased with freedom.
'The aristocracy does not take things
lightly
in this country,' thought Julien; 'in addition to all this, Vane is disgraced, abused,' etc.Julien found him good company; the fury of the aristocracy kept him amused.
He certainly is not paid to communicate his thoughts to her.'This state of affairs, and the singular doubts which Julien felt banished the boredom which he found regularly in that drawing-room, in which, for all its magnificence, people were afraid of everything, and it was not thought proper to treat any subject
lightly.
'I should not be surprised after all,' he said to her lightly, 'were we to learn that it was from jealousy that M. Sorel fired two shots at this woman whom once he loved so dearly.
He was always inclined to take life as
lightly
as he could, to cross bridges when he came to them, pay no heed for the future, even when everything seemed under threat.
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