How To Use Fig leaf In A Sentence
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Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf.
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This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape.
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The spokesperson said the information campaign was a fig leaf to hide the most regressive tax in history.
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NATO gives a "multilateralist" fig leaf to brutal buccaneering expeditions.
People's Weekly World Blog
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As it is, whenever sport-led regeneration is proposed in this country, the public is fobbed off with stat-free waffle about how it will benefit and regenerate local communities – and in some cases, we seem to be dispensing with even that fig leaf.
Stanley Park will bring little benefit to local community in Liverpool
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But this fig leaf fooled no one.
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They are hiding behind the fig leaf of the UN to give their misgivings about war an air of high-minded internationalism.
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The fig leaf, however, helped little.
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But there is more fig leaf than fact in this rationalization.
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Wrap each halibut fillet completely with a fig leaf, securing with a toothpick if necessary.
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The spokesperson said the information campaign was a fig leaf to hide the most regressive tax in history.
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We will not serve as anyone's fig leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about?
CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2007
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This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape.
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This critique of modernist nationalism-as-mental-colonialism has come to serve as the fig leaf for the postmodernists.
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The spokesperson said the information campaign was a fig leaf to hide the most regressive tax in history.
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‘It is a fig leaf of a token element of elected peers designed to mask the design of the Prime Minister and his cronies to keep their grip on this House,’ he said.
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We will not serve as anyone's fig leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
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This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape.
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In other words it is Picasso without a fig leaf.
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Authoritarianism, barely concealed under the fig leaf of ‘democracy’, became its watchword.
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Wrap each halibut fillet completely with a fig leaf, securing with a toothpick if necessary.
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Secularism is the fig leaf that covers the nakedness of their obstructive politics.
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The spokesperson said the information campaign was a fig leaf to hide the most regressive tax in history.
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This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape.
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The UN Human Rights Council machers then recruited richard goldstone, a Vain south african Jewish judge, who despite being aware from the outset of the biased composition of the panel, permitted himself to be used as a fig leaf to provide credibility to the Israel bashers.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape.
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As it is, whenever sport-led regeneration is proposed in this country, the public is fobbed off with stat-free waffle about how it will benefit and regenerate local communities – and in some cases, we seem to be dispensing with even that fig leaf.
Stanley Park will bring little benefit to local community in Liverpool
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We will not serve as anyone's fig leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
