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  • But the sugar has given him something to hold on to.

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  • It said the money saved by cutting the size of the House of Lords could be spent on a bigger assembly - something that was needed to hold the Welsh government to account.

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  • Casual sex is not something imposed by wily young men on young women too dumb to hold out for a ring.

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  • Inadvertently, Mr von Matt had put his finger on something big: that, at least in democratic societies, everybody does have the right to hold opinions, and that the urge to connect and converse with others is so basic that it might as well be added to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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