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  • It accused the business people who had put their names to letters supporting the NI cut as having been "deceived."

    How Best to Nurture Fragile Recovery? Patience Wheatcroft 2010

  • It accused the business people who had put their names to letters supporting the NI cut as having been "deceived."

    How Best to Nurture Fragile Recovery? Patience Wheatcroft 2010

  • It accused the business people who had put their names to letters supporting the NI cut as having been "deceived."

    How Best to Nurture Fragile Recovery? Patience Wheatcroft 2010

  • Victorian girls would sulk because they'd been 'deceived.'

    It Happened in Egypt 1889

  • Marguerite Turquet, the Aspasia of the Cirque-Olympique, is one of those frank, very living personalities to whom all is forgiven, such unconscious sinners are they, such intelligent penitents; of such as Malaga one might ask, like Cardot -- a witty man enough, albeit a notary -- to be well "deceived."

    A Man of Business Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • The letter was a pre-election coup for the Tories and plunged Labour into disagreement with top bosses after Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said they had been 'deceived.'

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • The letter was a pre-election coup for the Tories and plunged Labour into disagreement with top bosses after Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said they had been 'deceived.'

    Home | Mail Online 2010

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