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They need to know that when they suffer an injury they will be told they should buck up and play.
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It's always struck me as miraculous that through theater's sheer flimsiness and childlike sense of make-believe, the greatest truths can be told.
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Only this lemming can be told to use this item.
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Voters turned up at the polling station to be told they had already sent in a postal vote and therefore could not vote again.
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He seemed to have a persecution complex and desperately wanted his story to be told.
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For example, the double agent could be offered some tempting bait: "e.g.," be told that important information was stored at a dead drop site.
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I still see before me a life of toil and trials..., but, justice must be done, the truth must be told...
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Public sector workers will also have a two-year pay freeze and be told that they face increased pension contributions from next year.
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Alternatively, the child might be told to bend over, or lie face down across a bed.
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Women therefore have a human right to be told accurate, unbiased, unprejudiced information concerning the termination of pregnancies.
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