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Taxpayers want their money back, but flogging jewels such as AIA may not be the best way to maximise value.
纳税人想要拿回自己的钱，但是鞭打像AIA这样的宝贝也许并不是最大化其价值的最佳办法。
The old model of just flogging workers may have worked for the slave ships, but with the brain it just doesn't work.
哈洛威尔说，“鞭打工人的旧模式也许只适用于贩运奴隶，但是根本不适用于脑力劳动。”
He had no time for polite talk. In 1994 he was sentenced to an 18-month suspended prison term for shaving and flogging an official sent to administer an indebted farm.
他很少做政治演讲，在1994年，因为剃光和鞭打一位官员而被判处18个月的缓刑，流放去管理破产的农场。

The authors stress the need to identify and serve specific customer segments rather than flogging products.
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His catch-22 is that flogging off prize assets could make it more difficult to raise capital.
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Two policemen were flogging a man with koboko as we drove into the police station.
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If someone is flogged, they are hit very hard with a whip or stick as a punishment.
flogging