To me it was metal and glass and about as friendless as you could get.

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Weak and virtually friendless, it would be no match for America, missiles or no missiles.

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Until recently a sponsor of international terrorism, isolated, unpredictable, friendless in the West.

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And how far can Barbara go to help a friendless young patient (Jasna Fritzi Bauer) without risking her own quest for liberty?

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By the time the Soviet Union collapsed, Syria was friendless and penniless.

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UNITA, now isolated and friendless, and the rebels in Congo.

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The actors play two friendless strangers thrown together by circumstance who become star crossed lovers, unexpectedly falling for each other on a remote, sparse campsite on the scenic Brokeback Mountain.

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The foreign secretary said North Korean leaders were making "the wrong choice" between isolation and engagement with the international community, and warned "they will end up leading a broken, friendless country".

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All of this is true, just as it is also the case that the diplomatic factors that made UN Security Council Resolution 1973 possible - allowing air strikes against Libya - were very unusual, relying largely on the fact that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has behaved so oddly for so many years that he is pretty much friendless.

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The movie is filled with Los Angeles comics at many career levels, including three young men (Jason Schwartzman, Seth Rogen, and Jonah Hill) who live together in an apartment and deal with one another via filthy, hostile jokes, and a prickly and friendless wreck of a comedy star (Adam Sandler, in a revelatory performance) who lives in an oppressive Malibu mansion.

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