"The more real he is and the more subtle he is then the more terrifying he is,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

Congress had to make a distinction between these and corporations and it's kind of a subtle distinction because there are lots of corporations that own real estate.

国会必须把它和公司区分开来,这种差别很微妙,因为很多公司也持有房地产

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The problem that any ardent Blairite must confront is that there are no ideological grounds for taking on Mr Brown: the policy differences that divide him from Mr Blair, although real, are too nuanced and subtle to provide any.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

It is such whiffs of Welsh triumphalism that English-only speakers object to the not-very-subtle implication that the only real Welsh are those who speak the language.

ECONOMIST: The Welsh language

This may be a subtle distinction, but it is a real one.

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