But the more important the early decisions, the more an adviser is likely to show his true colours.

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He expressed for the first time accurate laws of motion, the origins of colours, the existence and effects of gravity, and the fact that the same physical laws hold true throughout the universe.

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When the militants want to resume hostilities, possibly in the spring, the country's Islamist politicians may at last be obliged to reveal their true colours.

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IR So The Economist, masquerading as a pseudo-intellectual print medium, has shown its true colours as a boorish tabloid, with its reprehensible obituary of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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