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Brickmanship

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Riscky politics

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There is no gainsaying the fact that

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Denying

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To eavedrop

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To spy (to tap telephones)

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Their Pontificating

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Their statements

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To belie

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Contradecir

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To flaunt

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To show of

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A weapon of large-scale destruction

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A weapon of mass destruction

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To earmark sth

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To grant/ to set aside/ to alocate amounts

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Can we credit what they say?

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Believe

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To vouchsafe

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To condescendí

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Snippets of information

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Small pieces of information

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I for one should not like to

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I myself should not like to

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To vouch for sth

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To assert/ to warrant

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Integrity

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Honesty

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Current Affairs

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The news

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To flag

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To vanish

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To knuckle down

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Ponerse las pilas

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To get tied up with

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To get distracted with

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To belittle

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To depreciate/ to put down/ to discredit

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To oust so from a/his position

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To throw out

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To flout

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To mock/to ridicule/ to spurn/ to scoff at

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To lose face

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To lose support

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To hold sway

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To have the power

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To shrink from sp

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To backdown from

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To climb down

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To step down

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Expediency

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The urgency of the circumstances

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To do things off their own bat

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Their own way

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To bargain for sth

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To expect/ ask for

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One can bluff some people sometimes. But not everyone all the time.

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To full

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In matters of such moment as…

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Importance

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To be frowned upon

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To be considered wrong

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To envisage sth

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To think of

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Desinterested working

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Selfless working

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Drudgery

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Monotonous labour/ work

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To override

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To supersede

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Face-saving

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Self-justification

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Utopic

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Idealismo

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So is striving to do sth

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So is making great efforts to do sth