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England will be hoping that Van der Merwe's bark is worse than his bite in Pune.

"Petro's bark is worse than his bite. Although it's a bad signal, it's not unprecedented and he can't really enact significant changes that would materially affect the country's monetary policy," Guzman said.

“That Trump’s bark is worse than his bite is something the American people came to terms with a long time ago. They don’t want a president impeached for his personality tics,” Mr. Neumayr adds.

The people who have doubts about Malpass fall into two camps: those who think that he will be better than Wolfowitz and that his eventual support for the capital increase suggests his bark is worse than his bite: and those who think he will be every bit as bad as feared.

This has prompted a few Europeans to hope that “his bark is worse than his bite,” in the words of Mr. Westmacott.