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"english": "I know your fondness for nobility in general and the Mecklenburg aristocracy in particular, so I ask for your patience when one of these gentlemen gets his comeuppance in my story […]",
"ref": "1909 [1901], Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks […] , Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, →OCLC, page 439:",
"text": "Ich kenne dein faible für den Adel im allgemeinen und die mecklenburgische Noblesse im besonderen, und darum bitte ich dich um Geduld, wenn in meiner Geschichte einer dieser Herren einen Denkzettel erhält […]",
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"english": "Given that the new migration policy the Union plans to implement in the next government largely bears Dobrindt's stamp, the politician with a penchant for pointed rhetoric could hardly have justified not taking over the relevant department.",
"ref": "2025 April 28, Dominik Baur, “Kabinett Merz: Vom Saturn über die Eifel bis auf den Bauernhof”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:",
"text": "Nachdem die neue Migrationspolitik, die die Union in der nächsten Regierung umsetzen will, in starkem Maße die Handschrift Dobrindts trägt, hätte es der Politiker mit dem Faible für zugespitzte Rhetorik kaum vermitteln können, wenn er das zuständige Ressort nicht übernommen hätte.",
"translation": "Given that the new migration policy the Union plans to implement in the next government largely bears Dobrindt's stamp, the politician with a penchant for pointed rhetoric could hardly have justified not taking over the relevant department.",
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"text": "Ich kenne dein faible für den Adel im allgemeinen und die mecklenburgische Noblesse im besonderen, und darum bitte ich dich um Geduld, wenn in meiner Geschichte einer dieser Herren einen Denkzettel erhält […]",
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"text": "Nachdem die neue Migrationspolitik, die die Union in der nächsten Regierung umsetzen will, in starkem Maße die Handschrift Dobrindts trägt, hätte es der Politiker mit dem Faible für zugespitzte Rhetorik kaum vermitteln können, wenn er das zuständige Ressort nicht übernommen hätte.",
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