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“Those can be defeated but that can take a lot of time,” Sutter said.”It’s not foolproof but at least it’s a strong deterrent.”

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Both the bunker and the 20-minute red cards are very solid concepts in theory, but in practice they are not foolproof.

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Her plan to get back to Ashton Place and the Incorrigible children was in no way foolproof.

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It was because her plan about the séance, which had seemed so simple and foolproof when she first thought of it, now appeared to have more holes in it than a mole-infested garden.

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It was hardly foolproof; indeed, it was almost certain to fail more often than it succeeded.

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