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Peculiar in sentence

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But the lessons of history have a peculiar tendency to adapt to the perspective of those citing them.
Hair of the Top DogNEW YORK – Much has been written about Donald Trump’s peculiar hairstyle, the kind of puffy, dyed comb-over one would associate with a downmarket nightclub manager rather than a presidential candidate.
Weirdness – peculiar upper-class mannerisms, ostentatious living, outrageous jokes, deliberate crassness, and mad hairstyles – is an asset.
Today's East/West blackmail, however, is of a peculiar sort in that, up to now, it has been accepted willingly by those being blackmailed.
None of this was peculiar to Tibet.
There is obviously something peculiar about a global financial system in which the richest country in the world, the United States, borrows more than $2 billion a day from poorer countries – even as it lectures them on principles of good governance and fiscal responsibility.
This is the context of our current peculiar vulnerability.
We wonder whether it could happen to us: Is this catastrophe the result of some peculiar characteristic that we fortunately do not share?
Third, the boundary between constitutional and legislative matters is peculiar in the EU.
But the real source of Iran’s dysfunctional economy is the country’s peculiar political and economic power-sharing.
The new religious militants, fighting in the name of their particular and peculiar God, seem as fanaticized as the Fascists, Nazis, and Communists of earlier decades.
Censorship has a peculiar status in India.
The reasoning is peculiar, and seems to revive a nineteenth-century critique, usually associated with Nietzsche, that Christianity (and Islam) produces an acquiescent or even subservient mentality, in contrast to the heroic virtues of classical antiquity or of warrior societies, such as the world of the Japanese samurai.
All of these affect Lebanon, and are aggravated by the country’s own peculiar socio-political dynamics – i.e., its Maronite, Sunni, and Shia divisions.
So the German Constitutional Court’s hearing on June 11-12 to consider the legality of the European Central Bank’s so-called outright monetary transactions (OMT) program was peculiar.
These complaints are all the more peculiar given that Germany is a major beneficiary of the OMT announcement: its direct financial risks, via balances in the eurozone’s Target2 system and the size of the ECB’s balance sheet, have shrunk, despite the eurozone recession.
The ECB’s stance is peculiar.
Both events crystallized a peculiar Latin American phenomenon: the temptation to empower a new, local Caesar.
Apart from peculiar hairstyles (the balding Berlusconi has his head painted), the new populists have several things in common.
The rules that UNASUR has agreed to uphold are so peculiar that the entire exercise is not even called election observation; it is called, tellingly, an “election accompaniment.”
At first glance, the comparison might seem peculiar.
One peculiar result of this peculiar system is that a candidate can win a majority of the national popular vote but lose in the Electoral College, by losing narrowly in populous states and winning in some smaller states.
Maybe the Electoral College isn’t such a peculiar idea, after all.
Only for reasons that are peculiar to Russia, his is a liberalism that dare not speak its name.
Europe’s political landscape offers a peculiar combination of idiosyncrasy and commonality.
Even though “Harry” Lee, as he was known when he was a student at Cambridge, imbibed much from Western civilization, including a peculiar admiration for the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, he was always careful to stress the Asian provenance of his political ideas.
But he has been maneuvered into a peculiar dilemma.
Fascination with liberal freedom came in Poland and elsewhere at a peculiar moment.
None of this is peculiar to developing countries.
But to omit a neighbor like Israel, a Syrian client like Lebanon, or a patron like Iran would be peculiar – and inviting all of them would be a formula for chaos.
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