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In Yalta, Chekhov wrote one of his most famous stories, "The Lady with the Dog" (also called "Lady with Lapdog"), which depicts what at first seems a casual liaison between a married man and a married woman in Yalta.

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Once Hamas is crushed, the lapdog Fatah organization, which is financed and run by the US and Israel, will be put in charge of Gaza and be the sole voice of Palestinians.

A latter-day Marlene Dietrich with her Pomeranian lapdog, her cigarettes and her cocktail glass (which contains a mix of crème de menthe and wheatgrass), she becomes Jonathan's oracle, uttering cryptic predictions and observations that, like the oracle at Delphi, mainly serve to bring her client's own most secret desires and fears into the light.

That philosophy had helped London to become the world's leading centre for "mobile capital", she said.In 2009 the FSA abruptly stopped being the industry's lapdog and showed its fangsIn 2009, too late to prevent the financial bubble which had, at the very least, been facilitated by lax regulation, the FSA abruptly stopped being the industry's lapdog and began to show its fangs.

For some grime fans, the Brits performance was an embarrassing lapdog-type display, a demonstration of a special relationship in which US rap is the headstrong leader of the free world, and grime is Tony Blair, whispering submissively in Dubya's ear.

"Comforter" was given as a generic term to lapdogs, including the Maltese, the English Toy and Continental Toy Spaniels, the latter of which was similar to the modern Phalène.

Arcane, embedded codes pervade a Pynchon novel at every level, so consider the episode in which Reef Traverse is about to attempt penetrative sexual intercourse with the lapdog Mouffette.

A priority must be challenging the Citizens United decision and removing special interest money from our politics, which is in large part how Wisconsin wound up with Koch brothers lapdog Scott Walker in the first place.

Cameron's film, he announced, was a brilliant parable of the class war in which "the third-class passengers (the proletariat) struggle valiantly against the ship's crew (craven capitalists' lapdogs and stooges)".

5. Shock is the name of the lapdog belonging to Belinda, the comely and cossetted heroine of Alexander Pope's mock-epic poem "The Rape of the Lock" (1712), which, in keeping with its satirical style, presents Shock not as an individual in his own right, but as the summation of various cliches about lapdogs.

As an article in this newspaper explained on Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which is supposed to act as the nation's watchdog over the energy industry, lately seems more like a lapdog.

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