Whatever the motivations of those who supported his ennoblement, however, there was no disguising the pettiness of those who opposed it. |
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Many riddles were embedded in rhymes, playfully disguising answers in metaphors and analogies. |
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Public support depends in part on disguising the reality of war and on calculating the acceptability of death. |
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Discuss the role of euphemisms in disguising something that is inherently bad. |
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That fool Peacock's great idea of disguising the real level of attacks on teachers by neds hasn't worked. |
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The idea of disguising the transmitter inside the flagpole was intended to ease the planning process. |
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But it's also just as much about sneaking, stealth, hiding, and disguising. |
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Even the radio commentators had a hard time disguising their reviews to appear fair. |
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Some age their Sauvignons in new oak, disguising it as a sort of poor man's Chardonnay. |
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There is no disguising either the immensity of the political moment, or the vast complexities of the choice facing us. |
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It almost explodes with good cheer, cleverly disguising its inner malaise with vigorous positivity. |
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Rather than removing the fence, or disguising it with vines or shrubs, the owners had it painted periwinkle blue. |
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Citizenship and passports are easy to procure in Latin America, disguising the movements of terrorists and narcos. |
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They risked their lives to present these theater shows, disguising their political commentary behind clownish puppets. |
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There are plenty of short haircuts on display but they are more about disguising thinning crops than making a political statement. |
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Denying that or disguising that or hiding that love is very, very injurious to human beings. |
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Alfred Marshall, disguising his boldness under a mousy writing style, proposed an even stronger supplement to the land tax. |
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Elizabeth was always good at disguising her feelings and keeping herself under control. |
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Today's politicians have found that a Spanish vocabulary is useful for disguising silver-spoon roots and expressing solidarity with the masses. |
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There has been no disguising the financial difficulties the party has been in since the election. |
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Hedges, like the wings on a stage can make a false end to a garden, thus disguising the real boundary. |
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If a king is seeking freedom from constraint through disguise, the greatest freedom is to be had through disguising himself as a beggar. |
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The magazine even dared to say the poncho was suitable for all body shapes, flattering curves and disguising hefty hips. |
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In any case, she's sure that he's a poseur and an opportunist, disguising his self-seeking with a veneer of piety. |
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He dressed up, disguising himself as a youth and joined them. |
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She didn't bother disguising her voice, for she was beyond caring. |
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A simple and effective form of disguising a voice is whispering. |
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There was no disguising the stunned faces of the 24 players for whom every gut-wrenching hole had the atmosphere of the last in a major championship. |
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The constabulary responded by disguising two officers as down-and-outs. |
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It's time to stop perceiving a woman's confidence as arrogance and disguising self-depreciation as some type of modesty. |
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The latter had no qualms about disguising themselves as soldiers when attacking civilians in order to discredit the security forces. |
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The process of disguising ordinary text or plaintext is called encryption, and encrypted data is called ciphertext. |
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Some suggest that supporters for the far-right former paratrooper are disguising themselves as Sarkozy voters in the polls. |
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Hairpieces, wigs and toupees are widely available and probably the most common method of disguising baldness or thinning hair. |
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Still, the tartness of limes and prickly heat of ginger do an admirable job of disguising the absence. |
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Vanstone dies, and Magdalen, disguising herself as a parlourmaid, penetrates the house of the trustee of his will to find the document which reveals the legatee. |
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In some cases he did so by disguising the files on a CD containing the music of the cross-dressing pop singer Lady Gaga. |
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Luckily, Carrie is well-practiced at disguising her vegetarianism and has been known to scoff hamburgers whole just to throw people off her scent. |
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He did not, his clever run disguising his intentions and the finish flying beyond Iker Casillas. |
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Instead, he found that DailyMail.com was engaged in disguising plagiarism as aggregation and that it was guilty of inaccuracies. |
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The general rise in stockmarkets this year may be disguising a fundamental shift within the market. |
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It creates a challenge in determining individual needs as people who lack reading skills are very skilled at disguising it. |
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The government is disguising the truth for partisan and ideological purposes. |
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The second is the use of false or misleading statements disguising the origin or true intent of the email. |
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In other words, the appearance of an innocuous request for prompt release is disguising a dispute of a more general nature. |
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Two men test the fidelity of their sweethearts by disguising themselves and taking on new identities. |
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Once the channels for disguising drug money have been established, they can be used for concealing all manner of criminal proceeds. |
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The being mirrored this illusion back to her, thus disguising its destructive nature. |
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In these circumstances, there was, according to the applicants, no place for disguising the effects of dumping through targeted dumping. |
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In particular, money laundering would be defined as concealing or disguising the proceeds of a wider range of serious crimes. |
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In addition to these expert hiders, we'll look at some animals who don't hide at all, but throw predators off by disguising themselves as something dangerous or uninteresting. |
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By disguising himself as a mentally retarded person, he was able to experience and expose the terrible discrimination these poor souls must everyday endure. |
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Schwarzenegger is adept at disguising his true feelings beneath a mask of preternatural calm, but he was suddenly doubly alert. |
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That was the first night Lewanna felt truly beautiful, with the powder and paint on her face, the ability to become someone else disguising all her flaws. |
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Tracey Morris tries to put a brave face on it, but there is no disguising the fact she is bitterly disappointed not to be competing in tomorrow's race. |
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A judge's life, like every other, has in it much of drudgery, senseless bickerings, stupid obstinacies, captious pettyfogging, all disguising and obstructing the only sane purpose which can justify the whole endeavor. |
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Many of these individuals are very adept at disguising their symptoms. |
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The Maimons temporized by practicing their Judaism in the privacy of their homes, while disguising their ways in public as far as possible to appear like Muslims. |
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Rising prices in higher-value properties, coupled with higher volumes in lower-priced ones, may be disguising stodginess in the middle of the market. There are other caveats about the strength of a recovery. |
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This predatory behaviour, disguising the misappropriation of wealth as the creation of value for shareholders, tends to increase market instability. |
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What was an empty shell with everything yet to be invented became a 30 hectare park disguising a water treatment plant and home to gatherings focusing on cultural diversity, sustainable development and conditions for peace. |
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This diversion consisted of a number of local men disguising themselves as crazy, retarded or deformed persons and asking the unmarried women to dance. |
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There is no minimum threshold of money, and no requirement that the transaction succeeded in actually disguising the money. |
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Maria Clarke, of Whinberry Drive, Kirkby, admitted concealing, disguising converting or transferring criminal property. |
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Maria Clarke, of Whinberry Drive, Kirkby, admitted concealing, disguising, converting or transferring criminal property. |
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Often the debate over the future role of governments has masqueraded in the language of managerialism, disguising the fact that fundamental values and principles of democracy are at stake. |
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The biggest rip-off at the pumps was changing from gallons to litres, the new measurements disguising the fact that prices had jumped yet again. |
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Most likely originating in primitive religious rites and folk ceremonies known as disguising, or mummery, masques evolved into elaborate court spectacles that, under various names, entertained royalty throughout Europe. |
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Using pseudonyms and disguising identifiable information in research reports and in video recordings of in-class activities would help to protect confidentiality for student participants. |
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However, organized criminal groups, including those which are involved in human trafficking, may try to avoid confiscation of their illegally gained wealth by disguising the criminal origins of their assets. |
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Mr President, this type of debate is purely about knowing whether the European Union, without exaggerating the good points or disguising the bad points, is progressing. |
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It is not thus when they try to deceive themselves, putting a mask of evil over the good, and disguising the good as evil, as happens among men in this time. |
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Where the Z had slightly sharp sides, the Z1 boasts chamfered edges that are smooth and comfortable, disguising the bigger dimensions: this phone doesn't seem significantly bigger and in fact feels better in the hand. |
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The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. |
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For example, there have been reports of war criminals disguising themselves as victims of war or conflict and then pursuing asylum in a different country. |
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The Gesta includes other fantastical tales about Hereward's prowess, including disguising himself as a potter to spy on the king and escaping from captivity. |
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Now, however, tempted as venally as everyone else by Bush's prevention dollars, many have also taken on abstinence-only education and are disguising it as HIV prevention. |
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Domitian managed to escape by disguising himself as a worshipper of Isis and spent the night in safety with one of his father's supporters, Cornelius Primus. |
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In the show, Shaun and his flock will get up to all sorts of adventures, including synchronised swimming in sheep-dip and disguising themselves in scarecrow's clothes. |
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