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  • There was a time when rock'n'roll and the honours system were the strangest of bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 
  • Adversity acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 
  • In fact, happiness and success are natural bedfellows. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
  • It was an era that demonstrated the incompatibility of labour and government as bedfellows.
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  • In general, violence and romance are uneasy bedfellows.
  • politics makes strange bedfellows
  • If you choose good bedfellows, a garden will semi-naturalise. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their convictions have led the Feminists for Life to form coalitions with all sorts of odd bedfellows.
  • Poverty acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 
  • Logic and rugby are not natural bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • The two festivals make easy bedfellows because they have many similarities. Times, Sunday Times
  • The way men perceive the educational status of their female bedfellows has changed.
  • These voters made slightly uneasy bedfellows with the students and Greens boosting the party. Times, Sunday Times
  • Misery makes strange bedfellows.
  • Some say the Duke has a new bedfellow - a southern lady.
  • Poverty acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 
  • The priest and the politician made strange/odd/unlikely bedfellows in their campaign for peace.
  • They say politics makes strange bedfellows, but the converse may also be true.
  • Two ideologically opposed camps often become strange bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • They will keep out the growling, rasping or fluty snoring sounds from the ears of bedfellows and allow them to sleep peacefully.
  • In the pursuit of riches, it has chosen to lie with some odd bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • Plus, world politics makes for strange bedfellows.
  • The relationship between major corporations and the government isn't incestuous, because the politicians are pawns, not bedfellows.
  • The priest and the politician made strange/odd/unlikely bedfellows in their campaign for peace.
  • Rock and visual art have long been natural bedfellows, of course. Times, Sunday Times
  • Silk and pleats are often happy bedfellows, although pleats can also look strikingly modern on stiffer, gauzier fabric. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. - --- Montaigne.
  • TV and politics have always made inevitable bedfellows, but the results have been disastrous.
  • Politics and network television programming make strange bedfellows.
  • Good storytelling and allegory make uncomfortable bedfellows.
  • But all Laurens's play, which has already finished its brief run, proves is that classical myth and futurist nightmare make queasily strange bedfellows.
  • History and Hollywood have always been uneasy bedfellows.
  • Richard Falk has made a career out of making outlandish claims, the UN and falk are natural bedfellows. field On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • It scuttles over and mewls softly, nuzzling its fallen bedfellow.
  • Political parties and city politics are not good bedfellows, but the city keeps getting dragged into the mix like there's some principle of osmosis at work.
  • The two festivals make easy bedfellows because they have many similarities. Times, Sunday Times
  • When wrapped around his infectious melodies, though, they prove to be perfect bedfellows to his lo-fi sound.
  • But at the last minute, I went with my own thoughts and voted no, in spite of joining such strange bedfellows by so doing.
  • Two ideologically opposed camps often become strange bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this context, politics created strange bedfellows.
  • Respect and liberty are not easy bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • The priest and the politician made strange/odd/unlikely bedfellows in their campaign for peace.
  • The McCain-Feingold partnership represents more than just a striking example of strange political bedfellows.
  • Strange bedfellows can make for memorable nights. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scrotes allowed, nevertheless, there was something in what MacMurrough had said and by way of illustrating this allowance he quoted from Augustine who had polluted the vein of friendship with the filth of desire—a phrase, Scrotes remarked, which would mean nothing to the Greeks, for whom friendship and desire were congenial if MacMurrough would forgive the paronomasia bedfellows. At Swim, Two Boys
  • What a fine pair of bedfellows they make. The Sun
  • They might be unlikely bedfellows but they complement each other perfectly. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
  • Politics sometimes really does make for strange bedfellows.
  • Politics and religion, uneasy bedfellows? Times, Sunday Times
  • Lenders will soon have a bedfellow to share their disturbing secrets.
  • Regulatory rigour and white-hot technological progress are not natural bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • Poverty makes strange bedfellows.
  • The priest and the politician made strange/odd/unlikely bedfellows in their campaign for peace.
  • Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and megacorporations, not to mention cross-company teams, often result in strange bedfellows.
  • Here we find strange bedfellows: oil producers and environmentalists. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's not "bedfellows making strange politics," as the Toronto Star so pertly puts it. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The priest and the politician made strange/odd/unlikely bedfellows in their campaign for peace.
  • Regulatory rigour and white-hot technological progress are not natural bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • Music and performance art can be awkward bedfellows.
  • Let me live in my dream world where strange bedfellows become welcome friends.
  • Yes, platitudinously but truly, politics make strange bedfellows. Gone with the Wind
  • For this is all about capitalism - the transfer of loyalties bought for a mess of pottage, or more precisely the chance of a better television deal for the new and unlikely bedfellows.
  • Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 
  • For them, strange or strained bedfellows are more fun than no bedfellows at all, since the excitement is all in the conquest.
  • But would he accept that football and athletics are uneasy bedfellows? Times, Sunday Times
  • Visual lust and inconsistency make fine bedfellows, I can tell you.
  • Industry and the environment are often seen as strange bedfellows.
  • The priest and the politician made strange/odd/unlikely bedfellows in their campaign for peace.
  • Even some of those who have aggressively championed the marriage campaign fear they have made dubious bedfellows.
  • Poverty acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 
  • This mixture of costs and benefits makes for strange political bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unlikely bedfellows, you might think. Times, Sunday Times
  • Technology and sheets also make bad bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sleep disturbances and unipolar depression are such intransigent bedfellows that troubled sleep is considered a hallmark of the mood disorder.
  • They might be unlikely bedfellows but they complement each other perfectly. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
  • Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
  • Chaos and desperation became familiar bedfellows.
  • Adversity acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 
  • Music and cartoons might seem like strange bedfellows to most.
  • Chinese attempts at indigenous SAMs were somewhat poor even after an injection of Western technologies during the 1970s and 80s when China was an awkward bedfellow of the West against the USSR.
  • But external threats can make for improbable subdivision bedfellows.
  • What Roddick is at most pains to demonstrate is that honesty and commercialism can make compatible bedfellows.
  • Do tourism and religion make strange bedfellows?
  • Mystery is our playground and mesmerism is our bedfellow.
  • There is no way I could have watched those two twits - talk about strange bedfellows, by the way - without heaving a brick through the TV set.
  • A certain sinless maiden, called Bona, "who lived a retired life in a house of religious Nunnes, had a bedfellow, unto whom, above all others, she was tied, lying on her death-bed, and no help to be devised for her recovery. The Friendships of Women
  • It appears they were bedfellows both figuratively and literally.
  • Excellence and fascination are not always natural bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • History takes strange turns and politics makes strange bedfellows.
  • Two ideologically opposed camps often become strange bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • These two very different genres do not good bedfellows make. The Sun
  • With Turkey's leaders coquetting as the new best bedfellows of Iran and embracing the terrorists of Hamas, the Wilson Center has just bestowed its "Public Service" award on Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. Turkey's Hollow Prize
  • His ladyfriend and bedfellow for the past twenty-five years, Alvina Closs, is flummoxed. Excerpt: Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos
  • They might be unlikely bedfellows but they complement each other perfectly. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
  • Campaigns like this can attract some strange bedfellows.
  • The EU referendum has forced some unlikely bedfellows to perform all sorts of mental contortions. Times, Sunday Times
  • One advantage of the arrangement is the attention it draws to unlikely bedfellows. Archive 2005-11-01
  • Two ideologically opposed camps often become strange bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • The McCain-Feingold partnership represents more than just a striking example of strange political bedfellows.
  • But there are important ways in which liberty and equality are natural bedfellows.
  • Poverty makes strange bedfellows.
  • Yet they are sometimes uneasy bedfellows. Times, Sunday Times
  • The two festivals make easy bedfellows because they have many similarities. Times, Sunday Times
  • Agaves are often mistakenly classed as cacti, leading many people to refer to tequila as "a drink made from cactus", but while both agave and cacti species thrive in drier, more arid conditions, agaves are botanically unrelated to their thorny bedfellows. Did you know? Agaves function as Mexico's 7-Elevens
  • The said leaves, collected while the sunrise dew is upon them, as great as brought in to the cover troubled with fleas, will gather them thereunto, that being unexpected expel out, will rid the cover of those troublesome bedfellows. Islamic Healing A-Z A's
  • Art and war may seem strange bedfellows, but often the needs of the one are answered by the other.
  • Heritage and recent history are strange bedfellows in today's political establishment.
  • They will keep out the growling, rasping or fluty snoring sounds from the ears of bedfellows and allow them to sleep peacefully.

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