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1. His crusading has at times appeared to verge on being a one–man show.
2. U.S. commanders have praised the performance of the Kurdish forces during the operation, while privately expressing concern that their tactics sometimes verge on being heavy–handed.
3. Fired up by his chances, Ortega‘s speeches sometimes verge on the messianic and he has compared the campaign against him to the persecution of Jesus.
4. British officials like to commend themselves on their softly, softly approach to policing, but not engaging with problems can verge on neglect.
5. Its editor, Tim Pankhurst, said: "We do not want to be deliberately provocative, but neither should we allow ourselves to be intimidated." The Foreign Office‘s private view is that the decisions to publish elsewhere in Europe verge on Islamophobia.