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But there is a less obvious answer, inherently appealing to any courtier of the Machiavellian Mitterrand.
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Looney, who in 1920 proposed an Elizabethan courtier, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
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It was not politic of him to liken Peter Mandelson, the prime minister's upwardly mobile courtier, to a crab.
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"Everyone got carried away in 2009 and the prices haven't come down, " says one courtier, who wished to remain unnamed.
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If you were a courtier, the object of the game was to kill villagers and convert them to your side.
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On their walls, the courtier celebrated his life, from hunting in the marshes to listening to his daughter play the harp.
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Dangerous times no matter which side of the religious divide you fell even for folk heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh, courtier, soldier, poet.
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The consumer may be king, but how can a manufacturer best serve him if the courtier distribution networks control access to him?
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As one Matignon courtier points out, Mr Blair's modernising of the left was made possible by the right-wing radicalism of the Thatcher era.
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Yet Mr Yeltsin these days is so unloved that allegations of wrongdoing look unlikely, at first blush, to make much difference unless, that is, they become so grossly damning that they force him to sack a key courtier or even to resign himself.
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But when he at last decides whether to promote Mr Mandelson, the prime minister will be all too aware that his courtier is a man of many talents, of which one is held to be a talent for betrayal and that among those who feel in some way betrayed by him are the chancellor and the deputy prime minister.
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