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They signed over key elements of their personal fortune to him - chiefly the multiple properties they owned and their contents - thereby sheltering them from laws targeting Jews.

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There is also an election on the horizon and oil and gas is likely to be a key campaigning point in north east Scotland, where seats are chiefly contested between the SNP and the Conservatives.

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The White House has been chiefly interested of late in their potential to create demand for government securities at a time when it needs to sell more of them.

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“We’re doing very little socially apart from posting clips from our show. That is chiefly the social strategy, which is not rocket science.”

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But the speech was chiefly aimed at emphasising that the Conservative Party is under new leadership - one that was prepared to make the "bold" and "tough" decisions that her opponents would not.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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