Gd12 Flashcards
At least for museum curators, ancient Israel was a cultural backwater. Nothing from it is comparable to the tombs and temples of Egypt, the libraries and ziggurats of Babylon, or the glazed tiles and palaces of Persepolis
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A China crush in the making?
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Mainland banks faced a liquidity crunch, with interbank lending rate soaring to record highs
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Body covered in blankets lay next to the overturned carriages as smoke billowed? from the wreckage
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Firefighters clambered over the twisted metal
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Spain is struggling to emerge from a long-running recession marked by government-driven austerity to bring its finances into order
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Hospital staff worked overtime to tend the injured
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Tottenham boss lashes out at condition of the rain-ravaged stadium pitch as Sunderland surge to victory
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The defeat was the least of his worries
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The pitch has been turned into a quagmire by a torrential downpour
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He have sprained ligaments in his ankle
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The rain abated before kick-off
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An underwhelming first half
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The manager fielded four of the eight signings he made this summer as he seeks to reshape his squad
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He had lined his pocket with office and campaign fund
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An endless covert, see-saw negotiation
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He had been convicted of murder in a brief, carefully orchestrated trial
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It bore no relation to crime
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The press has been awash with rumours
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A truncated and regimented “public” trial
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A feisty person doesn’t follow a script
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Forge a consensus
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In terms of (or in – terms)
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His image was everywhere reverently displayed
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He spent his time reading omnivorously
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The child was stillborn
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The remaining ten years of his life were less eventful
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There was some financial scandal involving one of the ministers, but it was all hushed up
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He made a last-ditch effort yesterday to extricate himself from the row over …
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A non-binding motion
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In an apparent coincidence,
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The soldier was decorated a number of times for his courage
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Hong Kong people have been beating the odds
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Being blind and hearing-impaired and having to read Braille with her lips
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It means give-and-take; it cannot be winner-takes-all
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Crochet garments are in vogue this season
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Though commonsensical and at first attractive, …
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Line-to-take
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Intermittent rain
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It was in August of 1978 that Bolton Brothers hatched their plot to kill their parents
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No discord, no concord
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It was a close call for us
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Horse around
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Crouching tiger and hidden dragon
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Let’s give her a good send-off
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Go with your gut!
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In no time!
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Sway the flies
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If I ask you out on a date, what would you say?
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Spend so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence
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Perceptions often trump realty
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Retract his words/ allegations
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I put a cash wager on sth
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You are going to eat my dust
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I thought you are a bunch of nothing
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It is good to be (out) in the open after being cooped up in an office all day
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We are fraternity brothers
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There’s no rest for the wicked
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Don’t make friend of the wrong sort
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His desire for political power knows no bounds
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It is beyond/ outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour
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The newspaper coverage of the murder went beyond the reasonable bounds
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Be out of bounds = if an area is out of bounds, people are not allowed to go there
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He is bewitched by his beauty
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He ended up ensnared by the complexity of the legal system
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On my whistle!
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Don’t make a fool of yourself
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Pea-brain!
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Sheer dumb luck
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Don’t dwell on dreams
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A late-night page-turner
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Got to have your wits about you
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This complicates things a bit
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I didn’t have the nerve to tell him what I really thought of his suggestion
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Excelsior
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I am not buying the invitation
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Life is hard enough as it is
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Old Kinderhook = OK
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Don’t get into my study
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Will you please pipe down? I am trying to read
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A restraining order
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I am already on thin ice with my friends
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I took it too far
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Don’t make fun
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Stop your mood swing
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It is electric between us
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A illegal bookmaker
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I hope I can be of service
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You are not a stand-up guy
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Bread crumbs
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His estranged wife
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The prince was reported to be elated at/by the birth of his daughter
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He was lauded for his performance
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His comedic edge has never been sharper
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Don’t lump she and me together
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It was quite a moving speech - it almost brought a lump to my throat
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You are going to be in harness and jump
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I thought the decorations were way over the top
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You are still in the running towards the Top Model
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Martial law
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Students have been sitting in on and off this week
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Sporadic violence was reported nationwide
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The warning did not appear to have thinned the ranks at the demonstration
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Urged relevant parties to abandon the use of force to avoid further bloodshed
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He led the coup that ousted Mursi
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As a gesture of appreciation
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The film has a positive critical reception and a successful run in Hong Kong
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The animated movie was denied a spot amongst the 34 places available for foreign films in the Chinese box office
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This seems to have done little good
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A bootleg copy
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Fans braved the sweltering heat to …
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The impunity of the sand
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The bus plunged into a ravine
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A stash of drug
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Hidden compartments in a suitcase
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Clip sb’s wing = limit sb’s freedom
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Bite the bullet!
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He posed a counter-question, rather than an answer
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They were forced to backtrack on their statement
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The sand contains foreign objects
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To draw a line in the sand = a metaphorical point beyond which no further advance will be accepted or made
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What we call ‘life’ is just a necessary fiction. Without a huge admixture of fantasy, reality would grind to a halt
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The callow cult of ‘choice’ or ‘options’ of our own day
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Extrude/squeeze the tube of toothpaste
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Run the stall
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My stomach keeps calling
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Become sworn siblings
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His accountant has aided and abetted him in the fraud
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Nipped one’s dream in the bud
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The band was belting out all the old favourite
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Steal the limelight
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Be better by a mile
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I’m at my wit’s end
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Just stay put!
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To bunk up with you
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Are you going to sit on the share?
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Do you get any Tencent holding?
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The attitude of the airport guard was symptomatic of a system falling apart at the seams
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10,000 soldiers were killed or maimed
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Fine words butter no parsnips = nothing is achieved by empty promises or flattery
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Fine feathers make fine birds
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One’s finest hour = the time of one’s greatest success
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Tragedy is the one that confronts the meaning-of-life question most searchingly and unswervingly
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Find a foothold in this unstable terrain
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Isabel stood as if turned to stone
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The elevator dropped like a stone
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The new job is not a promotion as such, but it brings good prospects for the future
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Because we live by signs, which bring along with them the capacity for abstraction, we can distance ourselves from our immediate contexts, free ourselves from the imprisonment of our bodily senses, and speculate on the human situation as such
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Like fire, however, the power of abstraction is an ambiguous gift, at once creative and destructive
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A tunnel was hollowed out in a mountain range
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Even in our most ecstatic moments, we are dimly aware that the ground is marshy underfoot - that there is no unimpeachable foundation to what we are and what we do
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Mammals have, by and large, bigger brains than reptiles = on the whole; everything considered
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Would not muster many votes
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Things are just baldly themselves, rather than enigmatic signs of something else
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They made plain their aversion to the use of force
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Launched on a grand scale
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You brood from time to time on whether it needs tinkering with or transforming
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A high wire act across an abyss
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She was subservient to her parents
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Linguists explore the nuances of language
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Home is where the heart is
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A pact with the Devil
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They are just hoping against hope that she’s still alive
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We were so outclassed - we did not have a hope in hell of winning
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The old man’s will has been tampered with
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Some of the China’s more restive regions
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A high-flier
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Chek Lap Kok came out tops in efficiency from 2008 to 2011
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Nowhere to escape
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A traumatized worker
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The chopper hacked at the heads and shoulders of the passengers
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The attack stopped only when other passengers overpowered the suspect
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He sat cross-legged
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He came under investigation
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A snap judgement
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Daily devotionals
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Two-timer
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What prompted you to introspect?
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The door squeaked as it swung back and forth on its rusty hinges
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“Life is not worth living,” she declared melodramatically
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You are not the studious type
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He is grinning from ear to ear
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Don’t take the quack too seriously
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Why did you go through my things?
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Partners in crime
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Don’t turn us in
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Don’t horse around
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He won the title emphatically
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Self-proclaimed qigong master
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Conjure live snakes out of an empty pot
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He swindled believers with false claims about his supernatural healing powers and pocketed a fortune
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Vanish from his hometown and materialize in Hong Kong
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A big red board with glided characters bears the word “The Wang Mansion”
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A barrage of investigative media coverage
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He was jailed for sabotaging Communist Party
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He was often roughed up by other prisoners, leaving him “with bruises all over his face”
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His flamboyant and boastful ways
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The halos of these masters are fading
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Analysts take Li Ka-shing’s silence on results in their stride
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Spark a frenzy of speculation among journalists
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