"This is a very long list, Barnaby. I hope you've got a good reason for asking us to wade through it?"
Well, if you can somehow bring yourself to stagger through to the end, I shall try to make my point.
At Harvard, Carrie Grimes majored in anthropology and archaeology and ventured to places like Honduras, where she studied Mayan settlement ...
Relief efforts in places like Louisiana and Mississippi after Katrina, and places like Fargo after the flooding, are virtually IMPOSSIBLE ...
In places like New York City, bribes are made every day as well, but people know how to cover their tracks.
The administration's decision to broach the possibility of incentives, officials said, will make it easier to persuade countries like China, ...
dragging countries like Greece, Spain and Italy, where tourism is a crucial source of income, deeper into crisis.
Didn't these folks know the danger they were walking into, when crossing the borders of countries like Iran and North Korea?
In countries like Finland, Sweden, South Korea and the Netherlands, design is a no-brainer, reflected by the impeccable elegance...
Such large-scale investment could be a huge boon to structurally weak countries in North Africa and could also give countries like Algeria ...
Countries like Indonesia and Vietnam are not too far behind. Industrial activity is on the rise, as more people move into urban areas. ...
We're more pro-life than Europeans, but we tolerate a much more permissive abortion regime than countries like Germany or France. ...
"My point is very simple. In almost all of these extracts you could simply eliminate the expressions "in places like" and "in countries like" without changing the sense. Or rather you would be making the sense clearer and at the same time more honest."
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