Gd25 Flashcards
He is fighting for his life after the chop attack
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He offers 1-million-dollar reward to the information leading up to the arrest of the responsible for the savage act
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The assassin is still on the run
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The college cannot condone any behaviour that involves illicit drugs
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The complainants objected that the advertisements were offensive and condoned violent and anti-social behaviour
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The motorcycle was thought to be used as the getaway vehicle
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They thought he was a plant or a snitch
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Well, being a snitch or an informant does not make you martyr or mean that you are really copping out
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Anti-triad detectives have been told to pump for information every underworld “snitch” they know to help find the motorcycle hitmen who carried out the attack
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As the clock ticks on the investigation into the attack, the police are understood to have been approaching every informant on the police payroll amid a death of witnesses
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Grainy CCTV images
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Every informant on the payroll is being tapped for information. No stone is being left unturned
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A pillion passenger got off a motorcycle
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A initial bounty of HK$1 million put up by Mingpao has tripled to
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He communicated briefly with detectives
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Well, it didn’t take long for us to realize they meant business, and they started clearing stuff up right away
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Hire retired police officers to join the ranks of inspectors to show the bad apples we mean business
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The government also make it clear that it would not budge on its rule insisting domestic helpers live with employers
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It would encourage job-hopping
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Fund managers cast wary eye on valuations of the red-hot Chinese Internet firms as its valuations approach nosebleed levels
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It comes in the wake of some recent big ticket acquisitions in the sector, with Alibaba snapping up Autoavi
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The cheery optimism that produced those rosy budget surplus forecasts of yesteryear is long gone
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Management keeps making rosy promises it can’t keep and issuing financial forecasts it can’t meet, they say
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The yuan has recently been something of a safe haven among emerging market currencies, yet market players have learnt from a bloody lesson over the past week that it is no longer an easy, one-way bet
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The drop offshore caused a massive short squeeze. Many investors were forced to buy back contracts at prices higher than what they cost to close out their short positions
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A bigger trade surplus normally provides impetus for the yuan to appreciate
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Widen the trading band for the yuan
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After this current bout of weakness, the yuan will likely stabilise in the run-up to the NPC
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The dorsal area of each hamster was shaved and epilated to remove hair roots
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Her voice had risen to a shriek, and her usually beautiful face was red, blotchy, and streaked with tears
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That takes real nerve
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Please watch for a rest room. My back teeth are floating
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After New Year’s, it’s back to the grind - the old routine
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A bare-faced lie, a deliberate lie, a planned lie
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Our wives were out late last night. They were bar hopping, pub crawling
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Questions were on the whole well set, pitching at the appropriate levels of difficulty
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Marks skewed towards the high side
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Fringe benefits are now seen as an important part of any salary package and base salary is no longer viewed as the deal-breaker
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Roberts went to university to read English and theatre studies, where her problem continued
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He went to Manchester to read for a BA in Economics
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Appeal cases have been few and far between
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The programme boasts an excellent teaching faculty
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This location boasts the standard decor and services of a five-star hotel
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Judges cultivate a collegial atmosphere in instructing the jury
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To write a good novel, you may have to bare your soul
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Baxter sound mad, but has bark is worse than his bite
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When they asked him about the crime, he didn’t bat an eye
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Verna just stood there batting her eyes, trying to look sexy
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They won’t refund your money. You are beating a dead horse
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When the boys heard the siren they beat a hasty retreat
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He plays table tennis very well; he will beat the pants off you
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Beauty is only skin deep
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Beggars cannot be choosers
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Behind the curve
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They will bend over backwards to find a room for you
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Ed will not accept late reports. He will not bend the rules
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Bend your elbow or drink beer or liquor or tip a few
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Bet on a lame rooster
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Bet you dollars to donuts
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His comment went beyond the pale of respect. It was vulgar
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That’s where groupies and the sexual charge from performance come in handy
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He pulled a different groupie every night
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She had never been forthcoming about her time in the States
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In other words, he lied, or perjured himself through giving inaccurate information about his assets
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Speaking ahead of the lecture, the critic launched a scathing attack on the contemporary British art scene dismissing Brit Art as a journalistic invention
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It was a tough beat
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Women are encouraged to leave hospital within hours of delivery, with home support provided by visiting midwives; women with private health insurance usually choose to convalesce in private hospitals
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I don’t mean to snap
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Rice with two choices of sides
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I can’t help but notice that
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Take a leap of faith
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Lead them on a merry chase
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His resignation was a tactical gambit
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Assign your staff to build the sort of book on Russert’s techniques, rhetorical gambits, and political obsessions that you’d want going into a debate with an opposing candidate
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The loser of this copycat election will lament all the strategic gambits that fell short in the end
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He seized a dingy singlet
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If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happen-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?
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Utterly impossible
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My head almost rolled because of her
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Some believe in a God who makes traffic lights turn green, who turns lottery tickets into sweepstake winners, and turns rain on a picnic day into sun
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Make sheep’s eyes at someone-look at someone in a foolishly amorous way
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A beard and a mustache have been added to the face of the devil in the picture, so that the killer is guilty of sacrilege no less than murder
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Smile broadly
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She hated the long hours, the measly wages, the heat of the kitchen, and most of all, she hated that she never saw Noah
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Like every city, Sheffield suffers from the scourge of nuisance neighbours, but has taken a leading role in trying to address the problem
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The colouring is important and he suggests that the mushrooms are first briefly blanched in boiling water, so they are moist without the need for prolonged cooking
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This film, besides winning numerous European awards and accolades, is the highest-grossing German film in that country’s history
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Splash it generously all over your body to remove that hot, sticky feeling, and cool you down, and refresh and invigorate the skin
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Put its army into full-combat readiness
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They are inviting the possibility of repercussion
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To go all-out to ensure security
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I seem to have mislaid my car keys
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Then there was another thump at the gates, this time followed by a blood-curdling scream of terror and agony
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Now this was according to God’s will, so that the church might be provided with pure altar bread made by the hands of a chaste and innocent youth
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I am just shooting off my mouth
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The tumultuous era of
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Their unmatched glamour and allure captivated the public’s imagination
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Further directions on where exactly to point it are not available as of time of press
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By the time my dad woke up and walked into the kitchen I had a frying pan with bacon and sausage sizzling on one ring of the range, and another with four eggs frying
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The grapes sizzled, sputtered, and melted into syrup, bastiThe grapes sizzled, sputtered, and melted into syrup, basting and braising the sausages in their bubbling juices
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He is still a young man, only he seems older because of his careworn expression
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The trade-off between risk and return
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I really need to just shut off all the machines, nuke the leftover pizza and watch Blind Date until my brains run out my nose
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