grip

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Basically, the more we lose our grip on morals, the more we tighten our grip on our wallet.

It is not pro - active enough to get a real grip on the situation.

Attempts are once again being made, rightly so, to get a tighter grip on money - laundering practices.

Until grip requirements are applied, these three amendments are therefore unacceptable.

That is the only way to get a grip on the problem.

purchase

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The purchase of weapons is more important than feeding people.

Let us be sure that we have a strategy for funding the purchase.

However, it need not automatically go back to the place of purchase.

In general, taxation should focus on a car's use and not its purchase price.

The proposal to set up a national purchase scheme should, in my view, be re - examined.

excerpt

extract

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3211 The following is a translated extract from his autobiography.

It is very hard to locate these children and to extract them from a life of prostitution.

abstract

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This is not some abstract concept.

European citizenship is an abstract concept which lacks any legal form.

It is hard to make the citizens enthusiastic about abstract ideas and unspecific future possibilities.

Human rights do not exist in isolation, neither should they be considered in abstract.

We must ensure that the level of risk is assessed, and not just credit in the abstract, i.

carry

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I tried to carry things too large for people to be able to carry.

This simply cannot carry on.

States can carry out port inspections.

Otherwise, we cannot carry out our work.

We shall carry on with our debate.

clutch

grab

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I hope it will grab that chance.

Since the details given in the report are not known, they cannot grab our attention.

However complicated the issues may be, the parties must grab the historic chance which they now have.

hold

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This does not always hold true.

This argument does not hold water.

Mladic continues to hold military power.

Everyone is free to hold such views.

I very much hope that it will hold.