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Lisa Milne's lovely soprano hasn't yet got the heft for Leonore.
Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio Fiona Maddocks 2010
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The name of Pooh originally belonged to a swan in a poem from Milne's "When We Were Very Young."
Let's just be honest here, okay? Tyler 2009
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In fact, far from rejecting the idea of negotiation per se, Milne's column argued that the Palestine Papers revealed "not a picture of genuine negotiation and necessary compromise, but of a gross imbalance of power that can't deliver peace, let alone justice."
Ian Katz: Israeli Ambassador's Dishonest Attacks on the Guardian Miss the Point Ian Katz 2011
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Winnie the Pooh, in A.A. Milne's fable for children, was a "bear of very little brain," forever being put right by his companion, a donkey if you please.
The History of a Fallen King Jonathan Sumption 2011
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Like the donkey in A.A. Milne's Hundred Acre Wood, we worry a lot about how to prevent crises.
Family Affair Amity Shlaes 2010
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In fact, far from rejecting the idea of negotiation per se, Milne's column argued that the Palestine Papers revealed "not a picture of genuine negotiation and necessary compromise, but of a gross imbalance of power that can't deliver peace, let alone justice."
Ian Katz: Israeli Ambassador's Dishonest Attacks on the Guardian Miss the Point Ian Katz 2011
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Perhaps if Western nations were represented by that other adorable bear, A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, we could hope to compete.
China's Cuddly Emissaries Judith Martin 2011
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But the category also draws its share of one-time buyers determined to own something by a childhood favorite like E.H. Shepard, who drew A.A. Milne's "Pooh" characters.
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Milne's suffocating "anti-imperialist" worldview leads to a deeply unpleasant moral equivalence between a reluctantly militarising opposition and unyielding regime.
Syria: Assad pledges reform as siege of Homs continues - Wednesday 8 February 2012
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A sharp-eyed colleague ferrets out the source of the quotation, from Milne's review of the book for this newspaper.
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