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Then we would ask the sub-bureau to further investigate them.
Archive 2006-02-01 Michael Turton 2006
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Then we would ask the sub-bureau to further investigate them.
STOP_george Teaches DailyKos Michael Turton 2006
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It is only when you get to some miserable sub-bureau, where the servant of the servant of a creature of the state can bully you, that you come to grief.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various
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Everybody had run away from the Department; and so, when the powers that be took possession, my little sub-bureau was unmolested for some days.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887
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Everybody had run away from the Department; and so, when the powers that be took possession, my little sub-bureau was unmolested for some days.
If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact Edward Everett Hale 1865
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Luo Yaping was head of a land sub-bureau in a district of Fushun, a city in northeast China -- not an especially high position -- and yet she was able to use her power over land development and compensation to accumulate a fortune in bribes and embezzled compensation, the China News Service reported.
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