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He had supposed she would hedge about the matter of the strange instrument.

Hedged about with such rules, they'd be more helpless than ever.

Perhaps it's because our gardens are hedged about with emotional significance.

Ahwould that we were not so hedged about with rules!

Also, wild camping in an American national park is hedged about with complex regulations.

You have hedged about that night for long enough," said Rek. "

Tanti said the company had hedged about half of its exports.

As a result, the lives of sexual minorities are hedged about by lies and deception.

In fact, warfare has long been hedged about with rules, written and unwritten.

Each power is hedged about with qualifications and bureaucratic safeguards.

Our talk was hedged about so much that any conclusion would be largely surmise.

He hedged about lending money from his own pocket.

It offered only a short-term credit, and that hedged about with oppressive conditions.

He saw that she was hedged about with hexes and charms.

The airline said it has hedged about 53 percent of its expected consolidated fuel needs for the third quarter.

Male homosexuality is still hedged about by legal considerations.

Some House Republican leaders are hedging about how they would cope with the casualties of their approach.

The whole question is hedged about by doubts.

As such it is hedged about with many taboos and requires long period of apprenticeship.

Prudence helped too: it has hedged about a third of its equities exposure.

Barrick takes a more cautious approach, hedging about a quarter of its reserves.

In front of Umslopogaas was their chief, a tall man hedged about with assegais.

It was not one of the more fabulous debuts in the Met's history, and critics hedged about the new singer.

The Saudis are still hedging about allowing us access to our prepositioned supplies.

Worse than simply the wrong end; this bond required her to obey, and she was hedged about with prohibitions.

We have hedged around this issue for far too long and it just gets worse.

Thus are the very wealthy hedged around with ceremony, even when dying.

We were hedging around the issue of age.

This is hedged around by a palisade of long bristles.

We cannot be sure which way crude may go, hedging around 10 percent of fuel requirement seems a sensible step.

Furthermore, they are hedged around with many phrases including 'as far as possible'.

It just doesn't seem right that my magic is hedged around with such pagan symbolism.

This estimate includes an expectation that they may have already hedged around 30 percent of their exposures.

A lesser criticism is that there was much hedging around the subject of whether Jesus actually healed people.

Notions which were at first very clear-cut have become hedged around with limitations in later articles.

The framework is also hedged around with conditions that would allow it to raise interest rates early if the economy starts to do something unexpected.

Although freedom of association has statutory recognition it is hedged around with numerous restrictions.

I'll have him hedged around, believe me," she replied as they stepped into the warm, fragrant kitchen. "

They hedge around it all the time.

Jesus never seemed to hedge around anything.

But it is hedged around with qualifying clauses that restrict a country's responsibility to act.

I took a breath, and hedged around what I suspected. '

Or we hedge around the subject never saying clearly what we really think or feel in case of causing offence.

Anderson discussed the unusual shape of his lot, hedging around the property, site coverage, and consultation with the neighbours.

But like a lot of invitations in isolated villes, it came hedged around with barbs.

To be so confined, to be so hedged around with rules and regulations, would kill him.

Hedged around with eunuchs, forbidden to be alone with an uncastrated man.

They are hedged around by protection.

There are also certain provisions for what is termed 'semi-retirement', which are hedged around with important rules.

I needed Fay to tell me--just to come right out with the truth without any tricks or hedging around.