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The buried city, laid bare to the sun of a mew age, is ashamed that it has lost all its songs.

Stories of excess continued to emerge, especially in Ireland where the banks' irresponsible lending on real estate was laid bare.

Investors said the slide had laid bare the structural problems facing the Russian economy.

After the big storms hit, the bad ideas were laid bare: Much of Cancun's glittering hotel strip is now without a beach.

The downgrade laid bare a distrust of both the Washington political system and the independent firms tasked with standing in judgment of it.

New research has finally laid bare the degree to which cats exploit humans.

Longer-term, the resentment and dislocation among the have-nots of British society laid bare this past week is a pressing issue.

Recently the Department of Planning of New York issued a report which laid bare a full scale of change of the city.

It has, however, laid bare that our current national framework for financial regulation is incapable of governing a global financial system.

It will eventually fail and a disturbing reality will be laid bare, prompting an unexpected and sharp discontinuous response.

The truth is laid bare in Trafigura's hitherto secret documents, published by the Guardian today.

and the secrets of his heart will be laid bare. So he will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, "God is really among you! "

The eight-year investigation laid bare a high-level conspiracy to hush up his involvement and whisk him out of Northern Ireland.

While appealing for co-operation, the president laid bare the ideological divide with the Republicans.

Mortimer's Hole is laid bare in a recent digital reconstruction of the passage through Nottingham's Castle Rock.

Second is financial regulation: its flaws have been laid bare, and the summiteers will want to put it right.

Once you've seen humanity laid bare, there's a time when you kind of want to unsee it, go back to living in Cinderella land.

or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass.

The Great Recession, the newspaper said, has laid bare cracks in plodding Western-style capitalism.

The credit crunch also laid bare a conflict in central banking that goes back to the days of the gold standard.

But increasingly these arrangements seem neither efficient nor secret, as their sordid inner workings are laid bare.

These shortcomings have been ruthlessly laid bare by the euro crisis.

This week the shortcomings of this muddling-through were laid bare (see article).

Enough is Enough relates facts of Intimate love, supreme sadness, humor, valor and fox hole religion, laid bare as never before.

Their diplomatic principles completely laid bare their ambitions for world conquest.

The present crisis has laid bare the weaknesses in the existing international financial system and governance structure.

The foundations of a later 12th Century church dedicated to Saint Peter have also been laid bare.

The ubiquity of official corruption is laid bare in a rare UN report that seeks to quantify it.

But human rights campaigners point out that the games also laid bare less savoury aspects of the party's rule.

The report laid bare the damage inflicted on Asia's third-largest economy by the global downturn.

It has laid bare some of the facts about the world's most dreadful wars.

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Recent elections have laid bare the established parties' woes, but the causes go back decades.

The statement completely laid bare their ambition for world conquest.

This is a special category, acutely relevant to the present day, whose hidden dynamics have yet to be laid bare.

The investigation has laid bare their fraudulent scheme.

When the rain stopped and this wounded city was laid bare, our television screens showed faces worn down by poverty and despair.

His poor skill was laid bare when he played solo.

Rhyming lines and words with flair Inner thoughts and hearts laid bare.

The crisis in the eurozone has laid bare the contradictions in this policy.