Besides, if we want to get to rhetorical mistakes and prevarications, the Democratic ticket already has set a high bar.

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At the same time, the Americans have grown sick of Mr Arafat and his prevarications, and are telling him, and the world, as much.

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Yet the white paper and Mr Blunkett are much crosser about the prevarications and shenanigans of unscrupulous lawyers than about the failures of the police.

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His false figures and prevarications caused him to self-destruct.

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