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  2. Misplaced loyalty - Wikipedia

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    Misplaced loyalty. Misplaced loyalty (or mistaken loyalty, misguided loyalty or misplaced trust) is loyalty placed in other persons or organisations where that loyalty is not acknowledged, is not respected, is betrayed, or is taken advantage of. It can also mean loyalty to a malignant or misguided cause.

  3. Useful idiot - Wikipedia

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    For other uses, see Useful idiot (disambiguation). A useful idiot or useful fool is a pejorative description of a person, suggesting that the person thinks they are fighting for a cause without fully comprehending the consequences of their actions, and who does not realize they are being cynically manipulated by the cause's leaders or by other ...

  4. Textualism - Wikipedia

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    Textualism is a formalist theory in which the interpretation of the law is based exclusively on the ordinary meaning of the legal text, where no consideration is given to non-textual sources, such as intention of the law when passed, the problem it was intended to remedy, or significant questions regarding the justice or rectitude of the law.

  5. DOCUMENT RESUME PUB DATE Mar 83 - ed

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    In a way this proposal confers the analytical skills of the linguist on the language learner. The third issue to be examined in this paper concerns the role of formulaic. speech in teaching. The traditional focus of language teaching is grammar i.e. the creative rule system.

  6. that is, the misguided perception that a collocation in one language has its equivalent in another language. In a corpus-based study, Paquot (2008) examined lexical patterns fulfilling an exemplification function by non-native speakers representing different L1 backgrounds. The Analysis of results has shown that non-native writers tend

  7. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

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    After five years of false starts due to shoddy investigative work by the small and underfunded Ada police force, Williamson, along with his "drinking buddy", Dennis Fritz, was charged, tried, and convicted of the rape and murder charges in 1988. On conviction, he was sentenced to death, while Fritz was given a life sentence.

  8. 10. What makes a sentence or text difficult to understand? Many educators erroneously associate simple sentences with ease in understanding and interpretation. For this reason, texts for English language learners are often composed of short, choppy sentences. The unintended result is that these simplified

  9. How the 'Manhunt' cast prepared to depict Lincoln's ...

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    James L. Swanson's bestselling book is the basis for Apple TV+'s "Manhunt," but the cast and creator also turned to historical documents from the real people depicted.