Something in this comic book spoke to their dissatisfaction and frustration with the world as it stands today. |
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He has realised that the constitution, as it stands, should be deemed dead and buried. |
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Marriage as it stands is good for children, good for husbands and bad for wives. |
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The scheme as it stands is a well considered response that pays enormous respect to the building. |
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Because of the focus on the text as it stands, discussion of redactional and compositional issues is minimal. |
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But as it stands, the people who are running this business are doing it for all of the wrong reasons and, I'll warrant, in all the wrong ways. |
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It may, at long last, lead to a major overhaul of a system of which, as it stands currently, we should be thoroughly ashamed. |
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The law as it stands puts the home-owner defending his property and the burglar violating it on exactly the same footing. |
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The text as it stands unquestionably lacks many of the qualities that make its predecessors so great. |
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It's a lively little read as it stands, but neither as feisty nor effective as it could have been. |
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What is uncivilised is the secrecy, guilt, shame and sorrow that surrounds this issue as it stands now. |
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Voting rights are determined on the basis of the share register as it stands 30 days in advance of an ordinary or extraordinary general meeting. |
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But as it stands, Man's Best Friend is a decent horror film occasionally hindered by the cruelty inherent in its subject matter and an awkward frivolousness in tone. |
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I am disinclined to recommend that my caucus support this bill as it stands. |
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As the common position as it stands is unconvincing and the Council seems unwilling to change tack again, the common position should be rejected. |
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However this amendment has not been included as it stands, because of its implications for electronic commerce. |
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However, as it stands it would impinge upon the right of initiative of the Commission. |
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Unfortunately, as it stands now, until I gain the required number of followers, no publisher will endeavor to find out. |
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Tourism as it stands at the moment and the fragile situation of those regions which depend on it require us to act urgently and effectively. |
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The report is good as it stands and should not be watered down by amendments that may also scupper previous compromises. |
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The easier it is to copy and share, the more useful it becomes, and the more copyright as it stands now becomes a bad deal. |
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Hearing and expounding the text as it stands, with attention to literary, redemptive-historical, and canonical contexts, are the foci. |
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The record of a superior court is to be treated as absolute verity so long as it stands unreversed. |
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I fully support the bill as it stands, and I support it because I'm a pragmatist on such matters. |
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The Bloc Québécois cannot support the implementation of the Canada-Colombia free trade agreement, as it stands. |
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It is arguable that the community competence process as it stands reflects this paradigm. |
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The identification obligations contained in this directive, as it stands following the common position, are overly bureaucratic and unusable. |
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Ms. Marie Abdelmalik: There is a big problem with the indeterminacy of best interests as it stands right now. |
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I have a serious problem with one of the central points of this resolution which we cannot accept as it stands. |
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There is a proposal to amend the existing text, and we will also comment on this proposal, as it stands on the date of preparation of this study. |
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If they had been adopted, however, they would have drawn attention to a serious ambiguity in the text as it stands. |
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We will limit ourselves here therefore to presenting a few of the most significant illustrations of the problem as it stands today. |
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Ethiopia, supported by Mali, noted that the language already reflects compromise and preferred retaining the text as it stands. |
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She then projected pictures of the monastery as it stands today and of the nuns at their work and at their prayers. |
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It cannot be accepted as it stands as it raises legal, institutional and practical issues which require detailed consideration. |
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The third major problem with the challenge as it stands depends on people making a voluntary sacrifice towards a nebulous and ill-defined common cause. |
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The plot, as it stands, is only the skeletal outline of a movie. |
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Indeed as it stands, the postal voting system leaves itself open to fraud. |
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He is probably reluctant to give specific advice to specific countries, or publicly criticise any member country, but as it stands he is whiffing at the winds. |
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I do not see how that differs from the current status quo, which is the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act as it stands today, which this bill will supercede once it is implemented. |
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The obstacle represented by the ruling of unconstitutionality lies most often in its nullifying effect: the statute cannot be promulgated as it stands. |
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The quantities budgeted are very far below what we had requested, but we accept that this has been a general practice and we therefore accept the result as it stands. |
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But just to recap the employment situation as it stands for older women: since they are held to be less attractive, their work is commensurably less valuable. |
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And this is without doubt the core problem with the SDS as it stands. |
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The comment made in paragraph 24 of the concluding observations on the Sultanate's initial report is therefore out of tune with the legislation as it stands. |
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The programme as it stands needs to be finely tuned in a number of areas. |
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Taking into consideration that there is no single proposal that can fully satisfy all CD member States, we ardently hope that the P-6 proposal can be adopted as it stands and finally get the CD back to work. |
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We can also anticipate that we can accept the language of the Presidential draft decision as it stands, since it represents, in our view, the best possible compromise to bring the CD back to its institutional mandate. |
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Now, this statement is an ideological generalization, and the documents of the U. N., the OECD, and the EC itself significantly nuance and condition the assertion even as it stands. |
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In spite of Commissioner Dimas' good words about the importance of tackling illegal logging, the Commission proposal as it stands simply is not up to the job. |
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I think it's time to rip up franchising as it stands today. |
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That is why we did not vote in favour of the report as amended by them, despite our efforts, and we shall not vote for it as it stands at the moment. |
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In the following, there will first be a description of the dominant position as it stands today followed by an account of the extent to which it has arisen as a result of the merger. |
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After evaluating the results of simulative planning, you may decide to leave the current demand program as it stands or you can replace it with the preferred long-term planning version. |
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The turnover as it stands is just about what we wanted. |
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Stukeley could be describing the circle as it stands today, as it has changed little in the three centuries since his visit. |
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The reason is that our prosecutors right across the country and in the territories know that the law is so inadequate as it stands that they cannot get convictions. |
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The reasons for this poor electoral performance rest on the bifurcated nature of physical force nationalism and can be clearly seen in the objectives of Irish Republicanism as it stands today. |
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The lineup as it stands includes juice extractors, citrus juicers, toasters, food slicers, drink mixers, a deep fryer and a waffle maker due in stores this month. |
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As it stands such tactics may fall foul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, hence Berman's proposal for legislative changes. |
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As it stands it's a weak prosecution case, the matter will be vigorously defended, and I'm very confident of a favourable outcome. |
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As it stands the rules apply to pay TV licencees and not channel providers, such as Premier Media and Fox Sports. |
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As it stands Fox's party will have between 148 and 158 seats in the lower chamber of congress, while the PRI will have between 222 and 227 seats. |
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As it stands anyone can set themselves up as a body piercer without a licence or qualifications, despite stringent rules for ear-piercing and tattoos. |
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As it stands under the proposals, the entitlements cannot be passed onto a transferee as they must first of all be activated in order for them to be transferred, he said. |
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As it stands the same thing will happen next Easter 2013 and also, February half-terms differ across authorities. |
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Our Wheelie Bin What is our wheelie bin thinking As it stands outside our house As still as the stillest statue As quiet as the quietest mouse? |
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