He dresses as beggars, watchmen and drivers to gain access to a subject's house and life.
Mr Adams has a tendency to over-argue, and his passion for Benton sometimes beggars belief.
As for the idea that American sports stars are puritanical role models, this beggars belief.
However, there are no local services that are targeted specifically at helping street beggars.
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Mr Cameron has said this "beggars belief", while the Liberal Democrats called the scandal a "sleazy affair".
Judge Christopher Tyrer said that the cruelty at Spindle Farm was "on a scale that beggars belief".
Many of the alleged victims were housed in caravans at Beggars Roost site in Staverton, near Cheltenham.
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The land proposed for development is off Beggars Lane and borders Leicester Forest East, Enderby and Braunstone Town.
Opponents say the spend "beggars belief" and claim it is designed to promote the mayor's national political ambitions.
It beggars belief to think that oneworld can be more than a frequent flyer earn-and-burn alliance under those circumstances.
Many of them were housed in caravans at Beggars Roost site in Staverton, near Cheltenham, the jury was told.
In cities like Berlin, there are now beggars and people rummaging through bins.
Food- and flower-sellers, supplicants and beggars depend for their livelihood on its visitors.
Yet for this reviewer, British and female, the picture of lachrymose middle-aged manhood drawn by Ms Sheehy beggars belief.
But beggars can rarely afford to choose, and local officials make no apologies.
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Until recently, private-equity bosses regarded sovereign-wealth funds as competitors in the hunt for assets, but beggars for capital cannot be choosers.
By the mid-1990s the strip, which runs past the University of Washington, was looking decidedly run-down, and was overrun with beggars.
Gold said the suggestion that Lee Bowyer's challenge on Modric was part of a conspiracy was "so ridiculous it beggars belief".
The NSPCC called her views "outdated and simply ill-informed" and said to hear them "from a highly experienced barrister simply beggars belief".
Outside London, car owners in Dorset say a planned tripling of park-and-ride prices near the Weymouth and Portland sailing venues "beggars belief".
Beggars are common enough in European cities, so to the guys holding out cut off coffee cups, I can walk by unmoved.
"How this arrangement was allowed to occur beggars belief, " the judge said.
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You can hear Angus Crawford's full programme, 'The Schoolboy Beggars of Sengal' on this week's Assignment from the BBC World Service.
You might remember a particularly gruesome scene in Slumdog Millionaire in which children are blinded so that they can become more profitable beggars.
In a neighbourhood once thronged by friars, pilgrims, criminals and beggars, school parties are encouraged to visit the cloisters and absorb their history.
The city was full of beggars, and respectable people were organizing neighborhood soup kitchens just to have something to put into their stomachs.
Lowry painted the working poor and, more and more, strange beggars and cripples against featureless backgrounds, yet he had no obvious political agenda.
However, the former head of the Scottish Police Federation, Les Gray, said the idea of having alcohol on general sale in stadiums "beggars belief".
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In thicker and thicker waves, beggars arrive from the four corners of the city and compete with carters and onlookers for hypothetically free spaces.
At the Aylesbury Crown Court hearing Judge Christopher Tyrer had said that the cruelty at Spindle Farm was "on a scale that beggars belief".
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