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left standing

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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. Chanakya

Jung Lu has the guns which my army needs; with their aid not a stone would be left standing in the whole of the Legation Quarter. Dong Fuxiang

The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing. Michael Moore

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing. Peter Orszag

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