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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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political
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All the noise being made about the hostages at that time was just political rhetoric .
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Coming in the midst of a presidential campaign, the air attack has generated the inevitable political rhetoric , bombast and pressure.
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But how are we to cut through the political rhetoric to see what lies behind the disagreement?
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All the political rhetoric about big government protecting the weak and the poor is coming into question as well.
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This political rhetoric would lead one to suppose that the subsequent proposals would be of an equally clear political substance.
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We should now cast aside all the political rhetoric of the campaign.
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As democracy is, at present, the only permissible political rhetoric , the ruling class duly speaks its language.
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Rome shocked me by flouting the conventional political rhetoric of environmentalists.
populist
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In the ensuing campaign, Thorne, Jones and their supporters exploited populist rhetoric on the war.
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Or are they simply reacting emotionally to finely crafted television commercials and populist rhetoric ?
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Newman was a master of populist medical rhetoric .
revolutionary
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Behind a veil of revolutionary rhetoric , the Council of People's Commissars suppressed the masses' striving for liberty.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't try to fool us with all those facts and bureaucratic rhetoric .
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the rhetoric of campaigning politicians
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Emanuel Shinwell's rhetoric , and the arguments which Crosland himself had developed in his writing, could not be brushed aside.
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Gingrich, however, is loathe to give up the familiar anti-Washington rhetoric that proved so popular in recent campaigns.
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In an interesting discussion of varieties of egalitarianism, Plant attacks the rhetoric that links freedom only with consumer choice.
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Indeed, since the Dec. 24 election Mr Erbakan has been backpedaling on much of his campaign rhetoric .
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Mr Papandreou's Pasok, embittered and demoralised, remains unable to evolve from unreconstructed popularism and anti-right rhetoric .
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Pyongyang limited itself to rhetoric , and was cautious even in its comments about the dramatic developments in the South.
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The answer must be hope that things might just improve; that one day soon reality will match rhetoric .
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With the election just two weeks away, the rhetoric on both sides is building.