But the attempt to define and punish a category of speech as obscene is an atavistic vestige from a distant era. |
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Did it purify me of the last vestige of any desire that might still be hanging around? |
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Interestingly everyone agrees that the one thing keeping unhappy couples together is not the last vestige of love, but money. |
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They contain no vestige of self-doubt, no scintilla of scientific uncertainty and more than a hint of patronage. |
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Continued practices of duplicating programs when geography and demand dictate otherwise clearly points to a segregational vestige. |
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This is unlikely to alter the eventual outcome, but might ensure that it is achieved with a vestige of dignity. |
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And most of all, protection is urgently required from the wholesale destruction of every last vestige of Nature in our lives. |
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As far as Russian folk belief is concerned, during this liminal period the body still retains some vestige of life. |
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I criss-crossed the western United States, and at the time nearly everyplace had some vestige of tiki culture. |
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Even today, when we approach the remaining vestige of our ancient Temple, we rend our garments like those in mourning. |
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Modern science see's this gland as an anomaly, a useless vestige from our ancestors with no known purpose. |
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This group are filthy in their habits, without a vestige of discipline, and are cowards to a degree. |
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It was good to have somewhere to go where there appeared to be a vestige of sanity, and River never made him feel unwelcome. |
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One more twist is required to help this far-fetched plot attain a vestige of credibility. |
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Her pondering presumes a regal power, a lingering vestige of an era when sovereignty resided not in the people but in the monarch. |
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First, several scientists independently launched the hypothesis that the pineal gland is a phylogenic relic, a vestige of a dorsal third eye. |
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Now, the government has admitted it can't sustain its old policies, of which the dollar peg is the last vestige. |
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Both hands were amputated just distal to the carpus, leaving three metacarpal stumps on the right hand and a vestige of one metacarpal on the left hand. |
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The upright clump of leaves observed on 11 December 1987 was a vestige of the future upright, leafy stem with very short internodes between the leaves. |
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This communication problem stems from the vestige of a Geordie accent that even seasoned English theatre professionals attempt to master at their peril. |
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Their border, the so-called Durand line, is also a vestige of British imperialism. |
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The only preserved pillory in Switzerland can be found at the southern corner of the Rathaus, a vestige of the medieval judicial system. |
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Neither is the vestige the relic or the looking glass of the withdrawn image. |
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Specialists are not absolutely sure whether it is a vestige of human development similar to the manes found on certain animals. |
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Squids on earth still have a vestige of a shell inside their mantles. |
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He is scrapping the Planning Commission, a vestige of centralised economic thinking. |
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The only vestige of the castle era in Buckingham, this grand residence has long been a symbol of identity for area residents. |
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This vestige of Cold War history is a unique reminder of Ottawa's position in global politics. |
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Built on a narrow crest, it has conserved a small tower, a vestige of a former castle. |
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It is the Monocrat who is forcing communal ownership as the counterpoise to himself, and is destroying the last vestige of the old doctrine of laissez-faire. |
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You could hardly find a vestige of the splendid railroad depots, warehouses, etc. |
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The totalitarians spoke a populist language in countries like the United States, but where they achieved power every vestige of democracy was wiped out. |
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A deep, raspy voice seems the only vestige of the three decades he spent pounding his body with poisons. |
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In all three categories, almost all anti-gay laws are a vestige of European colonialism, and date back approximately 150 years. |
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Still, the perp walk is probably here to stay, an enduring vestige of medieval stocks in the public square. |
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For this flood, ministers have produced not a vestige of proof. |
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Like all myths, there is a vestige of truth in the caricature. |
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Suzuki and Butterfly dabbed each other's eyes, ecstatically twirled on any vestige of hope, performed a poignant fan dance, silhouetted behind silk screens. |
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As used today, channeling is a vestige of New Age jargon that has taken on a general, nonspiritual, unpsychic meaning. |
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The entrance gates are an in-situ vestige of the first castle. |
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Justice Bowman noted that businessmen can err in judgement and that it is not the court's place to second guess that judgement, or to say that the error in judgement deprives the investment of any vestige of commerciality. |
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The oil boss still bears a vestige of the agitator of 15 years ago. |
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I agree with my colleague that the Senate does not have the necessary legitimacy to delay work, but it is not my fault that the Senate has remained as a vestige of British colonialism. |
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Antimonarchical sentiment threatened to sweep away the last vestige of royal prerogative. |
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I began to throw the pigments directly on the canvas, no longer using the little bags of skeletonized leaves, but the sea rushed in too quickly, leaving only a slight vestige of color. |
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Creative, solitary play seems a vestige of the past. |
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This servant is said to be transcendent, because he has gone beyond all vestige of lordliness and, at the same time, beyond all likeness, because he reunites in himself all the Divine Names by which God is praised. |
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Beyond the A-list client roster and moviedom razzle-dazzle — he was well known for his extravagant Oscar and pool parties — Mr. Limato was a vestige of a different era. |
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The house is imperiously built on a promontory, a vestige of the defensive construction it once was as part of the former moats currently bears witness. |
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In particular, cooperatives there are often regarded as a vestige of the earlier regime, although they appeared there a century and a half ago, and have generally adapted well to the introduction of the market economy. |
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The only vestige of the principle is the process of resignation from the House of Commons. |
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The last vestige of the rule can be seen through the process of resignation from the House of Commons. |
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A successful settlement of this issue, having removed another vestige of the past, will, in my view, contribute to strengthening neighbourly ties between Kuwait and Iraq. |
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Once through the Kerch Strait, British and French warships struck at every vestige of Russian power along the coast of the Sea of Azov. |
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A vestige of the colonial empire are the French overseas departments and territories. |
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Instead the play focuses on Don Juan as an aristocratic anachronism, a vestige of a dead age who has nothing left to do but play games and exercise his droit de seigneur. |
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The House of Lords is a vestige of the aristocratic system that once predominated in British politics, while the other house, the House of Commons, is entirely elected. |
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