• Blair channeled millions through a complicated web of companies, paying just a fraction in tax, it was reported.

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  • Hartz IV recipients must go through a complicated bureaucratic procedure to replace essential household items such as a refrigerator or television set.

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  • The deal is preliminary and still has to go through a complicated closing process and receive approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.

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  • Unlike the ancient Egyptian mummies, which went through a complicated preservation process to dry out their flesh, most of these corpses were preserved simply by putting them somewhere where moisture was scant.

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  • Only months ago, pirates preferred to be paid through a complicated web of bank transfers using offshore jurisdictions, according to a maritime security source now involved with ransom negotiations with hijacked ships.

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  • The London organizing committee offered Britons a chance to buy Olympic tickets through a complicated multistage lottery and set up a resale program to allow for the authorized resale of unwanted tickets.

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  • For the next hour and a half, he worked with three pianists two young girls, no more than ten or eleven, who played Chopin, and a teen-age boy who tried to make his way through a complicated Brahms piece.

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  • The Scottish government is cutting the amount it gives councils by an average of 2.6% but the exact amount varies as central government money is distributed to councils through a complicated formula which takes account of several different factors about the area's population.

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  • It is not enriched and cannot be used without first going through a complicated enrichment process, he said, but because of the unstable nature of Iraq, the United States and the Iraqi government decided it should be moved out of that country.

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  • The process of doing so is not as straightforward as it sounds, because something might simultaneously explain both air-traffic and growth, and so it is necessary to go through a complicated econometric procedure to purge any correlation of air traffic and growth of variables that might explain both.

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  • The paper demonstrated the hypothesis through a complicated experiment in which college students were asked to make a judgment about something they could not know for certain -- guessing someone's weight in a photo -- before having their moods swayed either positively, negatively or neutrally by snippets from films intended to provoke either anger, euphoria or no strong feelings.

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  • They have previously only been able to do this in their local area, or through a more complicated system elsewhere.

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  • Indeed, money flows through Alstom in a complicated fashion.

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  • They had to go through a few more steps, more complicated ones, basically to hide this money.

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  • On 28 February he will fly off to the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, where he will stay while Church leaders go through the complicated ritual of choosing a successor.

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  • Because if you approach these really complicated issues, looking through a pure ideological prism, you're not going to solve these issues.

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  • This is an issue where people of goodwill on both sides of the debate have been sorting through some very complicated questions to find a solution that works for everyone.

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  • And shadow families minister Maria Miller said ministers' approach to early years just involves more and more bureaucracy and a complicated process of jumping through hoops to favour a fortunate few.

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  • Sighting in a target through the scope of a high-caliber rifle can be a bit more complicated than it sounds -- snipers have to account for cross-winds, range and a whole host of external factors that could put their projectile off course.

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  • He added that aviation regulators will have to put the 787 through another airworthiness certification process, which itself could become a complicated and lengthy process depending on the final cause of the problem.

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  • But the process as described by the couples who have been through the complicated and expensive procedures, can be more than a little dismaying.

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  • The countries the U.S. consulted on a U.N. resolution were "thinking through complicated issues that require very careful consideration, " the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

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  • Moreover, Harry Reid, the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, doubts that there is enough time to put such a complicated deal into legislative language and usher it through Congress by August 2nd.

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  • He said the process was being complicated because money for the scheme was being fed through a grant made specifically for schools, which was causing a "bureaucratic shuffle".

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  • Following only the single thread of essential and essentialism through a book full of other topics makes it clear the notion of pleasure is complicated and full of contradictions.

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  • Beginning with the complicated business of conception, he imagines leading a young Tuscan couple through the vicissitudes of their intimate lives.

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  • At the moment making connections, for example between a Eurostar service from London to Paris and then to a TGV across France or an ICE high-speed train through Germany can be complicated.

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  • Russell says most patient advocates are women who have been through some kind of complicated encounter with the medical delivery system, either for themselves or a family member or spouse.

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  • This is a good point, and important for any organization that tries to convey complicated messages through social media.

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  • Rather than going through the complicated process of steaming and bending bamboo to suit his shape, he actually used a reusable skeleton to guide the shape of the bamboo as it grew.

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