Taxpayers want their money back, but flogging jewels such as AIA may not be the best way to maximise value.

纳税人想要拿回自己的钱，但是鞭打像AIA这样的宝贝也许并不是最大化其价值的最佳办法。

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Stop flogging yourself over mistakes over the past.

停止对过去犯下的错误的自责。

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There is nothing like a public flogging to get the people on your side.

没有什么比公开质询更能让人们站在你这一边。

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The network has made a lot of money selling advertising for the World Series and the Fall Classic has also helped Rupert Murdoch build Fox into a valuable brand by increasing ratings for other programs (who can forget the flogging CBS took after the network lost football to Fox in 1994?).

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At the risk of flogging the proverbial dead horse, however, there are still some missing key apps.

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The congressmen rode the subsidy train to re-election, flogging the 135, 000 jobs that the construction would supposedly create in the Central Valley.

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