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The dictator has been rebuilding the state around himself for so long that it is going to be an absolute nightmare of power vacuum once he is gone.
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robertog The dictator has been rebuilding the state around himself for so long that it is going to be an absolute nightmare of power vacuum once he is gone. I'm not sure what I am supposed to be checking for. It is a valid English sentence with a meaning that if perhaps a bit nebulous is clear enough; the connection between length of rebuilding and vacuum should be laid out in the subsequent paragraph.
- robertog The dictator has been rebuilding the state around himself for so long that it is going to be an absolute nightmare of power vacuum once he is gone.
- I'm not sure what I am supposed to be checking for.
- It is a valid English sentence with a meaning that if perhaps a bit nebulous is clear enough; the connection between length of rebuilding and vacuum should be laid out in the subsequent paragraph.
- The sentence strings the reader along a bit, waiting for the end.
- "Nightmare of power vacuum" strikes me as a mixed metaphor.
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robertogThe dictator has been rebuilding the state around himself for so long that it is going to be an absolute nightmare of power vacuum once he is gone.
I'm not sure what I am supposed to be checking for. It is a valid English sentence with a meaning that if perhaps a bit nebulous is clear enough; the connection between length of rebuilding and va
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