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Depute fiscal Ron Phillips said: "He is effectively a man of straw. The money he embezzled, he lost."
But he is a man of straw compared to Brown's granite.
And if we'd kept up the pressure the Man of Straw would probably have given way.
A man of straw - and his family - have provided some backbone for beleaguered Midland farmers.
"We thought we had found someone like that (in Carson Yeung) but he appears to be a man of straw.
Because, in truth, he's a man of straw with little useful to say.
Ghana's finest turned out to be a man of straw after arriving at Everton with a big reputation and glowing references from experts such as Arsene Wenger and Gerard Houllier.
But then Gordon Brown isn't a man of Straw. Something funny here, methinks.
For a politician occasionally dubbed "man of straw", Jack Straw is proving a remarkably tough Home Secretary.