Whenever the England national team plays poorly, the old chestnut of an inability to maintain possession is aired once again.

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He repeats the old chestnut about how buying and holding lets you take advantage of huge upward moves that can't be forecast.

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Could we have a euro equivalent of the West Lothian question - the old chestnut about Scottish MPs getting to vote on English affairs?

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Use current ownership as a lightning rod, reduce ticket prices, and toss in the old chestnut of substantial transfer funds and what self-respecting Arsenal fan could not be seduced by the notion of new owners?

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The question of whether central banks should be involved in bank supervision is an old chestnut that central bankers and academics have debated for many years and practice in the years before the global financial crisis had swung towards separate bank regulators.

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Today, we have an enlarged NATO with increasing (though still far from adequate) capabilities, a good plan for streamlining NATO's command structure, a new NATO four-star command focused specifically on military transformation and an affirmative answer once and for all to that old chestnut, can NATO take on a mission out of area.

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We ate them in the shade of a tall chestnut in the town square and drank cold draft beers, then pedaled on to Souillac and the old abbey there, built by returned Crusaders in the style of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which they had seen on their way to Jerusalem.

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