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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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In the sentence “look about the room”, in line 1, about is used as adverb rather than a preposition. 

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In lines 2, 11, and 12, the word “breach” could not be replaced by severance in any of the situations without changing the meaning of the sentences.

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In lines 10 to 12, in the passage “this is more straightforward when no formal breach of relations has taken place”, “more straightforward” could be replaced by less complex without changing the meaning of the sentence.

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In line 7, the expression “there are no constraints in their contacts” means that their contacts remain regular.

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The word “acute” (line 27) could be replaced with mutual without changing the meaning of the sentence. 

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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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In line 34, the word “allegiance” could be replaced with loyalty without changing the meaning of the sentence.

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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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In line 21, the word “fancy” could be replaced with whim without changing the meaning of the sentence.