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anything and everything; just about everything

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tacit approval; tacit permission; connivance; acquiescence; toleration; overlooking

1

choosing between two things; two choices

3

conservative mainstream (in Japan assoc. with LDP faction of Shigeru Yoshida)

2

present age; present day; contemporary; modern era; modern times; contemporary era

1

rejection; expulsion; boycott; ostracism

1

both families

1

to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)

4

one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)

1

cross-examination; retort; asking in return

1

to guess; to conjecture; to surmise

1

to consider carefully; to deliberate thoroughly; to think over

1

to pause; to have a short intermission

6

to lean over (someone); to bend over; to lean on; to weigh on one; to bear (heavily) on one; to lie on one

1

completely; absolutely; totally; (not) at all

1

release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)

2

to leave behind

1

deep breath

3

to answer a question

1

to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)

2

very close (to); within a stone's throw (of); a stone's throw away (from)

1

to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize

5

the Sheep (eighth sign of the Chinese zodiac); the Ram; hour of the Sheep (around 2pm, 1-3pm, or 2-4pm); south-southwest; sixth month of the lunar calendar

2

next (year, spring, etc.); coming; since (e.g. last month); for (e.g. 20 years)

2

current cabinet; present cabinet

1

losing one's position; losing one's standing; downfall; fall (from power); being overthrown

4

the second time

2

to be crowded; to be packed; to be jammed

1

restaurant

1

to encamp; to take up positions

5

nothing new; same as always; an old story; nothing new about it; not the first time it has happened

1

cabinet ministers

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standing for; advocating; championing; professing (to be)

1

rule; government; administration

1

separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation

1

to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange

4

to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of

1

healthy; sound; wholesome

3

last resort; desperate measure taken under the pressure of necessity

1

order (for an item); request; demand; condition

1

in public; in company; in the presence of others

1

appropriation; misappropriation; making one's own

1

originality; distinctiveness; uniqueness; individuality

1

clinging

3

top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat; home page (of a website)

3

to make one's own; to take possession of

2

to exchange; to replace; to shift personnel; to replace one person with another

1

piece of meat; cut of meat

1

realistic; pragmatic

2

equally (well); as ... as; no less ... than ...; evenly matched; well-matched

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