Even worse for John, his tenure as PM had been marked by treachery and sleaze. |
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The alleged treachery of the abbot and monks of Ely after William seized monastic lands is blamed for the ultimate surrender. |
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O'Grady's depiction of treachery and oppression by Elizabethan bureaucrats recalled contemporary parallels, thought the reviewer. |
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For some callers, failure to support local athletes was itself a kind of treachery. |
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That would savour of something like treachery, a kind of anti-supporting of your own team. |
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Up to fourteen thousand Mamelukes and a huge army were defeated by treachery and artillery. |
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There won't be a single family in the country unaffected, there will be bloodshed, treachery, espionage, murder, pogroms and massacres. |
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The penalty for her treachery was to suffer this torment every waking moment, denying her the calm serenity she craved. |
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But we should not allow him, or his friends, to forget his own personal treachery. |
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This would be seen as treachery despite the fact that it could be a key step in the revitalisation of the economy on both sides. |
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Pirates like Blackbeard have been feared and fabled for centuries in stories of treachery at sea and buried treasure. |
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Many of the local double as actors, and twice a week they play out their heritage, s story of love and treachery. |
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Here was one of my intellectual heroes committing an act of ideological treachery. |
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It would, therefore, have been an act of treachery not to speak on behalf on the people that he represented. |
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Already on this very day this step of his is put down as one of the greatest acts of treachery in Hungary's history. |
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From the perspective of Russian strategists, this proposal smacks of incredible stupidity or even treachery. |
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We will not forget that treachery, and we will accept nothing less than victory over the enemy. |
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In the end, an amazing tale of deceit and treachery is played out between these two men. |
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Lady Macbeth feels that if her husband does not enjoy his royalty, then all of their deceit and treachery has been for nothing. |
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This was considered an act of treachery at a time when Britain was experiencing difficulties in North Afrika against Rommel's Afrika Korps. |
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However, they were to face the most chaotic world of deception and treachery that awaits for them. |
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They claim they can help companies place higher in your rankings, but sometimes they resort to treachery. |
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Its members were accused of exceeding their powers, of truckling to the foreigners, and even of treachery. |
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Was this association with tyranny and treachery the cause of Socrates' trial and conviction? |
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His is a tale of jealousy, envy and treachery, but also of motherly love, shrewdness and adventure. |
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Arthur's treachery was not bruited in court and will not make the newspapers. |
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Octavian sought the help of the Senate, only to be met with obstructionism and outright treachery. |
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It is a stirring, brutal tale of conspiracy and intrigue, treachery and dissent, the overthrow of a hapless leader named Duncan. |
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He was accused of treachery and was summoned to a closed meeting with the leaders of his group. |
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Downing Street, if not quite yet gripped by paralysis, is at least on edge waiting for malevolent treachery to strike again. |
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For others, though, it's a dreaded nightmare of confrontation and recrimination, self-destructive despair and passive-aggressive treachery. |
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He folded her into his arms, forgetting that he knew her arms were a great treachery. |
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The sergeant believed local treachery was brewing and that my white skin would draw the crabs. |
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Without the power to say no, all kinds of treachery is used and everyone involved becomes demoralized, cynical and fatalistic. |
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This was the Shi'Kartan revenge for their treachery, to be destroyed utterly by weapons that they would never be able to defend against. |
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The merest hint of effeminacy is treated as treachery to masculinity, and traitors are subjected to the kinds of violence suffered by women. |
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Cheeks empurpled, spit launching in all directions, eyes afire with outraged vanity, the Colonel will have none of your treachery. |
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For a time his treachery caused such disorganization in the army that the city fell into the hands of the Czechs and Whites. |
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The ensuing chase reveals not only more treachery but also a passel of romantic entanglements. |
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After the war there was a Dutch parliamentary commission of investigation, but it discovered neither treachery nor duplicity. |
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But within the C.I.A., the exposure of the undercover agent is now considered an even greater instance of treachery. |
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Figuring the outlaw as the martyred victim of both tyranny from without and treachery from within, oral tradition solicits sympathy and even pity for the people's hero. |
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In some other countries that would be called treason or treachery. |
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Bust times inevitably recall repressed myths of gallant cavalry laid low by Northern treachery and an economy ravaged by carpetbaggers and scalawags. |
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I am stunned at their casual treachery to this country, to humanity. |
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Then I realized that any of the the various small stories of treachery and betrayal I had encountered could form the thews and sinews of a mystery novel. |
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The centuries that followed were full of intrigue and treachery. |
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Various theories propose that it was the product of paranoid madness, the involuted working of kinship-based rivalries, or a reasoned, rational punishment of treachery. |
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He accomplished this task by treachery, secrecy, speed and dishonesty. |
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It's striking that the fecklessness of the United Nations and the treachery of the French draw so many yawns from establishment commentators and politicians. |
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Immediately, the hardline settlers were quick to accuse their own elected officials of all sorts of treachery. |
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There is a short fuse and a certain explosion at the end of this piece of treachery. |
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The way we are taught Shakespeare is too often loaded towards the idea that his plays are about supposedly unchanging things, like love or ambition or treachery. |
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He had never cared for his stepmother and now that her treachery was known to him, it was impossible not to send barbed comments in her direction. |
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The island is a topsy-turvy world, a magical and terrifying place where the voyagers' encounters are unpredictable, filled with treachery, danger and wonder. |
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Gladiator weds the heroic scope of movies like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Braveheart, and Rob Roy with the serpentine political treachery of I, Claudius. |
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This comedy of manners about unrequited love, social treachery, bad goth poetry, and monsters under the bed lures you in with daring imagery and gorgeous, dark atmosphere. |
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These are deliberate acts of treachery and are roundly condemned. |
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The show reeks with tension, treachery, and posturing to gain favor. |
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The opera's plot is the typically confusing farrago of unrequited love, disguises, nobility pitted against treachery, and everything set right at the very last minute. |
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He was filled with the embittered suspicions of a hunted animal, seeing enmity and treachery in his friends and deadly foes in his neighbours. |
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Wartime hysteria led to many unfair accusations of treachery. |
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At the Battle of Northampton on 10 July, the Yorkist army under Warwick defeated the Lancastrians, aided by treachery in the king's ranks. |
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Now, that success seems threatened by Russian treachery and brute force, and Hungary has appealed to the West. |
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No records have ever been found in England stating that King Edward had any knowledge of treachery by Robert Bruce before his acts against Comyn. |
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In 1143 Cadwaladr's men killed Anarawd ap Gruffydd of Deheubarth by treachery, apparently on Cadwaladr's orders. |
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Efnysien, suspecting treachery, reconnoiters the hall and kills the warriors by crushing their skulls. |
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Ruses of war are legitimate so long as they do not involve treachery or perfidy on the part of the belligerent resorting to them. |
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He returned with a newly constituted army and took Sarmizegetusa by treachery. |
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Infuriated by this treachery, they attacked and, at the Battle of Noreia, annihilated Carbo's army, almost killing Carbo in the process. |
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This crew faces the Sauronesque embodiment of evil, the Shadow, its minions, the savage Reavers, and treachery in the usurper of Arlen's throne. |
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With great talent, elegance and subtlety, it condones and romanticizes euthanasia, treachery and adultery. |
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Brain-washing the young is a treachery far beyond postal vote name-changing. |
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Benedict Arnold has become a metaphor for traitor, a legend for treachery. |
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After all, Peter scorned his sometime inamorato, David Orchard, and Belinda's act of treachery could be seen simply as proof that what goes around comes around. |
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The other knights construe this as treachery and a declaration of war. |
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Soon thereafter, suspecting treachery on the part of their hosts, the Spaniards took Moctezuma II, the king or Hueyi Tlatoani of the Mexica, hostage. |
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She is understood in various and often conflicting aspects as the embodiment of treachery, the quintessential victim, or simply as symbolic mother of the new Mexican people. |
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Not only Cato is vanquished by Caesar, but the treachery and perfidiousness of Syphax prevail over the honest simplicity and the credulity of Juba. |
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The Romans blamed their Nabataean guide and executed him for treachery. |
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From the opening novel in the series, the theme of treachery was strong. |
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I would not find myself at thirty brigaded with a set of low-hearted priests and seminarists, who have no other weapons than treachery, nor any strategy but lies. |
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Jugurtha was finally captured not in battle but by treachery. |
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The sagas have more than their share of axings in the back, killings encompassed by treachery and trickery, narrated without accompanying moralizations. |
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The eagleeyed archer returns from the Crusades only to embark on a battle for justice at home where the corrupt Earl Marshal of England plans treachery. |
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