They have scoured court records from Cleveland to Jefferson County, Alabama, to throw light on the darker side of the business.

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But they believe a trial might throw light on why the Khmers Rouges sought to bring such misery to the country.

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When you feel like you are in the dark charts can throw light on where we are now and where we have been.

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They also throw light on the way that genes are organised within chromosomes, confirming that many exist in clusters of closely related individuals.

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Occasionally cases come to court which throw light on a system of patronage and nepotism which means everyone who is anyone in Iranian society has some kind of connection to the ruling mullahs.

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Shortage of money has prevented them from digging year round, and this autumn they had to stop on the verge of what their team leader, Professor Emmanuele Greco from Naples, describes as sensational new discoveries which throw light on the true whereabouts of Sybaris.

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The book may throw some light on the influence women had in the Hitler circle, an area largely unexplored by historians.

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However, the past can throw some light on things.

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He asked Isaacs if he could "throw any light" on the identity of Webster, who was referred to in the essay, but Eliot was unable to remember.

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