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Examples of hocus-pocus


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Thus, the 'doubly stressed' hocus-pocus will always be realized with one of the parts stronger than the other.
What is all this elaborate nonsense and hocus-pocus which involves leaving 500,000 people outside the scheme because they are not "proper" contributors?
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I should like to have a definition of "hocus-pocus".
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There is a fair amount of hocus-pocus in the way in which the commission operates.
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This is all part of the great hocus-pocus that we have erected around legal appointments.
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They knew that it was hocus-pocus from the start.
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This hocus-pocus of posts of responsibility is doing no good at all.
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Both types of debate are enveloped in exactly the same sort of hocus-pocus.
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We will end this unscientific, never-ending game of numbers, this hocus-pocus surrounding limit-setting, with the clear cut-off criteria.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Our roads would become full of these mobile warehouses, and neither 'intelligent' traffic management nor any other hocus-pocus would be of any help.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
This is much more important than hocus-pocus international agreements.
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I do not believe all of this hocus-pocus about the growth in investment.
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There is a great deal of hocus-pocus in any curriculum making.
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How do we undermine these barriers, the barriers of conventional wisdom, of tradition and of hocus-pocus?
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It is worth going through that study if one wants to read a piece of hocus-pocus research.
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There appears to have been some odd hocus-pocus in persuading certain people another way.
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It was really a lot of hocus-pocus.
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It is sheer historical hocus-pocus.
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Let us do away with hocus-pocus.
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He was mildly provoked by this, and belittling this incident said to the ascetic that this was mere hocus-pocus.
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There obviously is a lot of fictional hocus-pocus in all this, but there's also a shimmering mirthfulness in the writing.
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We looked for some new revelations on the subjects of fortune-telling, hocus-pocus, and glamour.
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He stated taxpayers shouldn't be forced to accept this hocus-pocus.
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Nobody had told me anything about this hocus-pocus with welded-together engines.
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