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He wriggles, twists and turns at every opportunity to defend the somersault that he has made since 1977.
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He is just wriggling out of it by substituting another statement.
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He spent a substantial amount of time wriggling around on this issue.
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I thought that he wriggled a good deal during the course of his remarks.
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He has been unable to deny it, despite his wriggling and writhing.
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There is no possibility of wriggling round that.
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I see one or two of them wriggling, so they clearly do remember it.
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You may cut off its head, and the rest of the body still wriggles about.
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I do not think that any wriggling can get them out of that obligation.
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He is simply interested in wriggling through the series of political crises with which he finds himself faced from time to time.
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They are wriggling and wriggling and wriggling because, in reality, they are cutting and cutting and cutting, but cannot admit it.
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He has so far wriggled out of the expression "a big shake-out".
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They wriggled like anything, changed direction suddenly, hurried backwards and forwards and concealed their retreat with a cloud of ink.
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If he cannot say that, we shall assume that he is wriggling again.
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I want him to reply without any shilly-shallying or wriggling.
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They are wriggling about doing an impossible balancing act.
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Perhaps while the regulatory structures were settling down in the early days some fish wriggled through the nets.
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There can be no wriggling out of it.
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He wriggled and did not seem to wish to give the cases at all.
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When and how will they collect the money, and when will they stop wriggling on this specific matter?
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They were also desperate to get their wriggling absent husbands, ex-husbands or partners to pay something towards their children's maintenance.
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He must stop wriggling and ensure that effective action is taken.
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I have never heard such a wriggling intervention.
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I am saying that he is wriggling, that he is trying to get himself out of the position into which he has got himself.
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We are not wriggling on this at all.
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He raises posturing, wriggling, dodging and whingeing to the status of high parliamentary art and one has to admire his cheerful cynicism and aggressive bombast.
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We saw chronic delays in the system and fathers wriggling out of their responsibilities.
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They are pressed time and again on the same subject, especially when they are seen to be wriggling.
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I do not see that there is any twisting or wriggling out of these facts.
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We see this gorgeous wriggling into a little hole to find answers to questions that cannot be answered.
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After all, we only wriggled through the last war.
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They have sat here for too long wheeling and dealing, wriggling and trying to postpone the evil day.
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We are told that the lady is not for turning, but perhaps she is for wriggling.
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He wriggled a great deal, but we eventually extracted one or two points.
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He wriggled and dodged again when he was asked what amount of money the public expenditure cuts he was recommending would generate.
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As distinct from worms, one cannot cut private firms in two and expect both halves to go on wriggling.
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He wriggled himself into a simulated posture of virtue, and said whatever they thought about the letter he knew nothing of the authorship.
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We get six redefinitions a day; we get backing and filling; we get wriggling; and finally we get retreat.
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In other words, the seals after they were dead, wriggled for an unusual length of time.
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Does he realise how it twists itself round, with its slime and its wriggles and coils?
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He has accepted our figures and there is no wriggling out of that.
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Technology has overtaken us, plus some people's clever wriggling around the regulations.
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Labour is now wriggling on the minimum wage.
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They are wriggling by moving such a programme motion.
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They wriggled on this question and refused to commit themselves.
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Perhaps the company's wriggling and shifty footwork of last week is an even clearer sign of its intentions.
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I am not suggesting that we are riddled with dishonesty, but it certainly seems as though we are wriggling with it.
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I am not wriggling—we must have detailed discussions when we consult and work through matters.
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With a close-up of the face on the television screen there can be no wriggling.
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I remember, too, in early 1996, her wriggling for two weeks trying to defend the indefensible.
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He is wriggling, and it is interesting to see the way in which he is responding.
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After all this twisting and wriggling we have got to this position—that you must curtail the liberty of the man.
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He was very nearly caught by it, but before he had finished his speech he had wriggled out of it.
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However much he wriggles, he will be unable to avoid the verdict.
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He merely made a few uneasy wriggles and then relapsed into his usual attitude of contented repose.
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I listened with growing apprehension in case the good assurances became only reasonable assurances and then, perhaps, fair assurances, since he gradually wriggled out of his original fairly generous commitment.
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No doubt it will find them because they are the sort of costs that come up quickly, and that guarantee could not be wriggled out of.
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The mouse was squealing and wriggling about.
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The result, wrongly or rightly, is that people feel that the authority wanted the school land for disposal, and then wriggled around for a specious educational vindication.
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There must be no excuse for wriggling.
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If he thinks back to the story of the young boy fishing, does he recall that not only is an eel "one that wriggles", but that eels are excessively slippery?
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He is wriggling a bit now.
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They had the faces of men who have spent long years wrestling in comradeship against the grim hazards of nature, not wriggling foxily, determined to outwit their fellow men.
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There was much wriggling but no answer.
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He has given us wriggling answers.
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We do not want these hedging, wriggling speeches by which they are trying to get out of their honourable obligations which were accepted by all as a final settlement.
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He wriggled and he dodged.
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They wriggled and evaded responsibility every time.
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I am not wriggling out.
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The notion that the interview was merely an attempt to elicit various pieces of factual information that were unrelated to overall policy or strategy is an absurd bit of wriggling.
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He was being carried but he wriggled.
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When pressed on what his 4 per cent, meant he wriggled and finally tried to slip from the hook by saying that he was keeping his options open.
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The department then sort of wriggles away.
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He wriggles out of the situation and all toast the young couple.
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On the shoulder are high-relief designs of dragons with their three-dimensional heads on the centre and their bodies wriggling along the sides.
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He crams the film with bits and pieces, trapping his actors like bugs wriggling in the frame.
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When exposed, it immediately wriggles into loose soil or under rubble.
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He wriggled round the large boulder and reached the shaft which he estimated as being in excess of 90 m deep.
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The pupa wriggles free of the cocoon and breaks through the upper leaf surface.
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The process apparently requires a good deal of hard work and much wriggling of the abdomen.
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Rather than swim, epaulette sharks walk by wriggling their bodies and pushing with their paired fins.
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The old skin breaks near the mouth and the snake wriggles out, aided by rubbing against rough surfaces.
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He rushes and catches her with a few smooches while she wriggles her way out.
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Mauro the judge is a worm: a spoiled worm wriggling in its comfortable nest...
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The old skin breaks near the mouth and the snake wriggles out aided by rubbing against rough surfaces.
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Another matter worth looking into is how fast wriggles in the surface are evened out.
Psychologists believe a new-born infant learns to combine what it picks up through its various senses as it lies wriggling in its pram.
The class is completely caught up in the action: toes and shoulders wriggling in sympathy.
In the living state, they wriggled vigorously, making some forward (or backward) progression.
With snakelike movements it wriggles away through the loose snow with surprising speed.
I can see you with wriggling snakes in your hair, all shining, and your eyes darting.
If they don't wriggle free of blame, they don't in any case care.
All of the verbs (except one, wriggle) were monosyllabic.
I watched her shuffle, wriggle and avert her eyes while we made stilted conversation about our lives.
They are now wriggling every which way not to have to act.
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I believe that manufacturers should be set absolutely clear targets with no room for wriggling.
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They say they want to do something, but as soon as a practical proposal is put before them, they find good excuses for wriggling out of it again.
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As soon as a framework is agreed for harmonisation and stability, the wriggling and the wheedling to make holes starts, and frankly, it is no better here.
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Genuine prevention of pollution calls for restrictive measures as far-reaching as confiscation of a polluting company, which no company can wriggle out of.
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They will always find a way, be it to right, to left, down the middle or wherever, to wriggle out of it.
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