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Many just try to strike a happy medium between the two age groups.

He told friends he always believed in striking a happy medium.

John's translation struck a happy medium between the two.

But the strong silent men ought to strike a happy medium now and then - don't you think?"

"But," he said, "I am trying to strike a happy medium."

No doubt they strike a happy medium.

Man strikes a happy medium, then.

However, it appeared to strike a happy medium between simplicity and flexibility, and was rapidly adopted for many other uses.

I'll try to strike a happy medium."

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He said he wanted to be thoroughly informed so he could "strike a happy medium" between satisfying journalists' appetites for news and serving the president.

Never Strike a Happy Medium.

"We have to strike a happy medium between a car that accommodates the driver and one that confuses him," Mr. Harrington said.

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Wunderlanders strike a happy medium"-she glanced at them roguishly out of the corners of her eyes-"after which it comes down to individual merits."

In no time at all the Atlanta belles are complaining that today's men can't strike a happy medium - "seems like all of you are either wimps or jackasses."

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Between the spirit world and our world, there is Theresa's world, where she is simply trying to strike a happy medium between her family life, work like, and the afterlife.

One of our great achievements has been to incorporate data protection into the directive wherever possible, striking a happy medium between the protection of the public against serious crime and terrorism on the one hand and the safeguarding of the private domain on the other.

Of course, if we take care to ensure that any measures taken receive widespread support, then they will be even more effective and if, at the same time, we draw on the experiences of the Member States in these areas, then we shall be sure to strike a happy medium.

Some tend to do a great deal, others not enough; I myself have tried to strike a happy medium, and it is in that spirit that the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe will table some amendments intended purely to refocus our efforts.

The question is knowing how to ensure its future is sustainable by striking a happy medium between the nanny state favoured by socialists, which we have seen almost bankrupt us, and that of excessive liberalism, the dangers of which we have seen with the financial crisis.

'You have to strike a happy medium between looking like royalty and looking like a housewife,' a helpful Mrs Tony Newton, wife of the Leader of the Commons explained after she and four Cabinet Minsters' wives for being lip-glossed and back-combed into shape by the Mail on Sunday.