| This critique of modernist nationalism-as-mental-colonialism has come to serve as the fig leaf for the postmodernists. |
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| They are a political fig leaf to cover the government's embarrassment over that. |
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| This is merely a fig leaf to cover up its ruthless attempts to preserve the ability to extract huge profits from those artists. |
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| They are hiding behind the fig leaf of the UN to give their misgivings about war an air of high-minded internationalism. |
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| Secularism is the fig leaf that covers the nakedness of their obstructive politics. |
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| Wrap each halibut fillet completely with a fig leaf, securing with a toothpick if necessary. |
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| I can see the appeal of the fig leaf for Adam and Eve, when choosing a leaf as an outfit. |
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| More sympathetic observers like Peter Kolb suggested that as a natural fig leaf it modestly concealed the female genitals. |
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| Finally in 2003, the absurdity of the explosive numbers forced MLB to institute a fig leaf of testing. |
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| Appealing to the UN and referring to human rights is a fig leaf covering up the EU's aggressive imperialist policy. |
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| Too often they just serve as a fig leaf, to give the appearance of trying to prevent abuse. |
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| The complaints formulated by Parliament about its being sidelined are merely the fig leaf to conceal the militaristic orientation of the report. |
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| This was not the mythical Pan, half-man and half-goat, but a mature human male whose nudity was compromised only by the prominent fig leaf covering his genitals. |
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| Essentially, intensity is believed to provide a fig leaf to cover steady increases in aggregate emissions. |
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| The fig leaf of vital interests will no longer be sustainable in the postelection marketplace. |
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| Lay the roasted fig on a fig leaf along with the dressed fava bean salad. |
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| This fig leaf of legality must be stripped away, otherwise violence will persist. |
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| We always use special pleading about the minutiae as an intellectual fig leaf to avoid the tough decisions. |
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| The fig leaf of national sovereignty serves only to hide the impotence of nation states. |
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| That leaves Tzipi LIvni, who appears with each passing day to be little more than a fig leaf. |
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| Just the other day, we saw the boxer-briefs with built-in radiation-blocking fig leaf. |
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| In fact, one of them said that the special advocacy process merely added a fig leaf of respectability to a very flawed process. |
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| Or is Rand co-opting them by merely using his newfound adviser as a fig leaf? |
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| He could have said that we would go with the Americans anyway, without the fig leaf and without unity at the UN, but he did not do that. |
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| A fragrance bringing to mind all the facets of the fig tree, from the smell of a fig leaf to the heart of the ripe fruit. |
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| He added that most codes of conduct are little more than a sham, a corporate fig leaf, or an attempt to privatize international law. |
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| The European Parliament, like all representative institutions, is reduced to the role of a fig leaf, covering up the scandals which drive people to seek profits at world level. |
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| It acts as a fig leaf of democratic respectability, designed to mislead the people of Europe into thinking that they have some say in the management of the so-called European project. |
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| This is a fig leaf deal all the way, and most people will see that. |
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| They have tried to buy themselves a fig leaf to hide their shame for having voted with the Conservatives to remove from women in Canada the right to equal pay for work of equal value. |
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| This is often simply used as a fig leaf, which is not the idea. |
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| The Summit's document on openness is a fig leaf. |
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| The current Beijing regime has discarded even the fig leaf of egalitarian socialism, and many of its offspring openly aspire to become capitalists. |
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| The Conservatives have thrown up this narrow fig leaf of respectability. |
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| As observers raised their heads, they discovered with amazement that a recent reconstruction of the Bolshoi was heedful of children's innocence: the Greek god now has his private parts covered by a fig leaf. |
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| It could not be clearer that capitalist democracy is nothing but a convenient parliamentary fig leaf for the dictatorship of the capitalist class over the workers and oppressed. |
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| We have to do that, and precisely in order to emphasise that need, I am not going to invent something artificial to act as nothing more than a fig leaf. |
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| We've heard from Staff Sergeant Frizzell that the meeting was basically meant to be a fig leaf, a front, just to make it look like there was a process. |
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