This stuff about short selling, I think it's about German politics, it's displacement activity.

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And it might lead to a tougher bill to register lobbyists, as a kind of displacement activity.

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"It's about keeping informed about what's going on and actually it's a displacement activity as well, " he said.

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Diplomat and crossbencher Lord Hannay of Chiswick called the government's plan to repatriate powers from Brussels "a futile displacement activity".

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But sometimes this can become displacement activity to avoid tackling that most tricky and most vital of political tasks - earning the right to be heard.

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But over and above this there is the point that the extra activity of the sporting event is just displacement of activity in either time or space.

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