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Despite setbacks in handling the relations with China, the Portuguese have been able to maintain a commercial presence in some parts of the Chinese territory.

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Italian Renaissance decisively contributed to usher in the age of European domination. 

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In the last paragraph, Vidal admits that, unlike himself, Alec Guinness and Terry Southern are not nostalgic. 

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In Vidal’s opinion, Joe Alsop was not likeable.  

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In the statement “Videocassettes are beginning to crowd out the books”, in line 7, one could infer that tapes might outnumber books at some point. 

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Effective diplomacy in the traditional sense assumed that commitments made through the diplomatic process would be enforced by a single center of power in the diplomat’s own country, irrespective of any resistance from other domestic authorities.  

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Texts of treaties agreed upon by the American chief executive in an international negotiation might come to be later rejected or modified by the Senate of the United States. 

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As a consequence of the extreme fragmentation of American policy-making and diplomacy, ambassadors of the United States represent only the interests of the federal government abroad. 

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Although conceived by a few local intellectuals and elite members, Dutch culture exerted an appeal over the rest of the country because the latter saw themselves reflected by those artistic expressions.  

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The text admits that Dutch culture, understood as “collective ways of seeing themselves, and the world beyond”, in lines 5 and 6, was a conscious invention.  

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In line 9, the expression “propertied nation” refers to the sovereignty of the Dutch nation.

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The feeling that Dutch of all social conditions were part of a common group, whose experience was expressed by a common culture, was compromised by the participation in war and by the burden of taxes imposed by the Dutch government.  

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The text argues that the artistic expressions associated with Dutch culture would have been a transient phenomenon had it not been embraced by the non-elite Dutch people. 

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Dutch paintings depicting noble and common people alongside in the winter reflected the consciously invented vision of how the possessing classes wished life in the Netherlands to be.

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There were 61 deaths registered this week.