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Many of those people are genuine asylum seekers, others are chancers who masquerade as genuine asylum seekers.
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The trade unions will come down heavily on the chancers.
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This company has for years flagged up the fact that it is achancer.
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Thechancerwill try to take advantage of the new opportunity.
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It means that we do not really trust the person who is described as achancer.
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The man seems to be a completechancer, and a callous one at that.
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He is a member of a party of chancers.
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However, the fact that this country has moved during the past eight years from being a nation of pragmatists to a nation of chancers is both profound and tragic.
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Through her relationships she is shown to be achancerwho wants to have fun and has the bottle for anything.
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Rory has been described as a cheekychancerand a heart-throb.
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In 2010 the ruling administration was overthrown and the city was opened up to rebels and chancers to carve out their own little piece of paradise.
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