Neighbourly visits take place on open decks overflowing with houseplants, garden gnomes and delightfully eccentric decorations.

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But China will set the value of the yuan according to its own economic needs rather than neighbourly generosity.

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What made this neighbourly gesture remarkable was that the two countries that share the island of Hispaniola have long been divided by mutual suspicion.

ECONOMIST: A break in a history of mistrust

As long as they avoid neighbourly confrontation and keep their congregations below a certain size (usually about 25), the Protestant ones are mostly tolerated, grudgingly.

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Removing tariffs on your regional partners may be neighbourly.

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Morocco's premier has advocated "neighbourly" talks on the issue.

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Neighbourly relations are a prerequisite for progress towards the EU. Keen to win candidate status even though (like five of 27 EU members) it does not recognise its former province, Serbia began commission-sponsored talks with Kosovo.

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From the terrible staging (all the poor contestants looked completely lost on that huge, characterless stage) and the ridiculous drivel spoken by the poor hosts (who should have ditched their dialogue and ad-libbed) to the bizarre, neighbourly voting.

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By the end of the week of Ruthie's funeral and its aftermath, we had seen enough to know that we had to be part of a rural place where neighbourly virtue is so common, and so close to hand.

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The choice facing us is between peace between the brave that will raise relations between us to a positive track and good neighbourly relations and prosperity, and, God forbid, a violent confrontation that will only cause more suffering and victims while not solving any problems...

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