• The Soviet government did not waste time repining over Daoud.
• The objective may seem to some an unworthy one but it takes account of the realities without repining uselessly over them.
• Then he is envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, timorous, sordid, outwardly dissembling, sluggish, suspicious, stubborn, a condemner of women, a close liar, malicious, murmuring, never contented, ever repining.

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