It blinds us to its presence, even as it works to obscure our reality and provide logical explanations for illogical facts. |
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Each of us believes what we choose to believe, and facts have become bricks to shore up the fortress of our own biases. |
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And so the apparent solution struck at the RNC is to skip over the facts as if we all have the attention span of gnats. |
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I would like to take a moment to summarize the facts that I presented earlier. |
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But sometimes, the quest for facts lets us down, or leads us astray, and leaves us worse off than before, not better. |
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We need a Special Select Committee on Benghazi to ascertain these facts and ensure that such a disaster never occurs again. |
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But if your preferred policy can only be advanced by concealing relevant facts, isn't that a blaring warning of a bad policy? |
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That is, if archeology could let it stand without spinning the hard facts to fit an ambitious pre-conceived political agenda. |
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With a nose for bogus facts, Johnson sets out to break the Internet by breaking news. |
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The facts do not cease to matter merely because a white cop killed a black boy. |
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She dispenses facts like a braying machine, bobble-nodding a head of hyper-lacquered hair. |
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Of course, there are real rules to Ebola, and they have to do with incubation periods, bodily fluids, and other scientific facts. |
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Dr. Robertson also twists the facts when she comes to the defense of Dr. Robert Eckel. |
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Both keep up the appearance of gaining ground, often omitting or altering facts. |
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In an instant the case pitched from tragedy to travesty to absurdist spectacle, the judgments coming far faster than the facts. |
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Fun facts like this abound, often displayed via amusing graphs and infographics. |
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However, Abbott is not about to let cold hard facts get in the way of a little politically motivated demagoguery. |
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Here are five facts to remember for those who are tempted to apply the five-second rule. |
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The facts, however, are of so clear and palpable a nature, that there is no gainstanding them. |
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Joseph Henry later defended interest in it, in the absence of the facts, as relevant to the management of movable type. |
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The author has collected a treasury of facts and lore about horses. |
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He can easily recite all the facts about any player on the team. |
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They were assiduous in their search for all the latest facts and figures. |
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These facts are based on close observation of the birds in the wild. |
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How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes? |
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Lay judges participate in deciding both the facts of the case and sentencing. |
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They are creating their own facts, but one need not be in Government to create alternative facts. |
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The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. |
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The related notion that some facts are relatively more brute than others hearkens back to the ancient metaphysics of Aristotle. |
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After a long and patient investigation of facts, the Coroner returned a verdict of wilful catslaughter against a party or parties unknown. |
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So ingrained is the instinct for massive retaliation that Downing St. came out swinging before mastering the facts. |
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Looks like I'd better cosy up to her and see if I can pump some facts out of her. |
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In its broadest aspect, the subject-matter of diplomatic is the relation between documents and facts. |
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He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts. |
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Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time. |
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The paternity of A and the filiety of B are not two facts, but two modes of expressing the same fact. |
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He never sought to gain or augment the confidence of his followers by concealing facts, minimising difficulties, or overcolouring expectations. |
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Very often theorists are prone to overconstruct facts, that is to endow them with greater meaning than is warranted by the observations. |
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If it does, a rule of constitutional law is formulated only as the precise facts in the case require. |
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In the preface, the author claims to have stated 20,000 facts gathered from some 2,000 books and from 100 select authors. |
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No use in raging, in reasoning, in arguing. No use in setting forth the facts, the palpable right and wrong. |
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But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves. |
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The latter treats of their habits, songs, nesting, and other facts pertaining to their life histories. |
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If correct, the presence of a handful of dinosaurs in the early Paleocene would not change the underlying facts of the extinction. |
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The poem is not considered a rich source of historical facts by Beowulf scholars. |
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Durkheim saw material culture as one of the social facts that functions as a coercive force to maintain solidarity in a society. |
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Historians are able to analyze existing letters penned by Augustus to others for additional facts or clues about his personal life. |
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At the same time, Carr argued that the study of the facts may lead the historian to change his or her views. |
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You think they exaggerate sometimes? You think they embellish things, stretch the truth, play loose with the facts? |
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In Roman Historiography the facts and an impression of what the facts mean are presented. |
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Conflict between the facts and the interpretation of those facts indicate a good historian. |
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This is almost entirely original material, his facts and names are often at variance with the official chronicles. |
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But for him the first rule of judging was to set aside personal predilection and vote the law and the facts. |
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Other details of the witness's biography match known facts about the explorer. |
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Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory. |
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That theory, however, is also disputed because of its inability to explain all the facts. |
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Furthermore, many of the facts illustrated above are also valid for other languages. |
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There is no research, however, establishing these facts in the New York dialect literature. |
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This is in accord with facts, for I can by cold put to sleep special parts of the nervous mass without putting other parts to sleep. |
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Parties are encouraged to disclose the facts of their case prior to starting any court case. |
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There must also be a Statement of Truth as to the facts in the particulars of the claim. |
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The facts of this case demonstrate how important it is since the decision in the case of Reg. |
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All decisions are, in the common law system, decisions on the law as applied to the facts of the case. |
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Nor were the orders Wednesbury unreasonable on the facts given the considerations of security and cost of resettlement. |
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Judges decided cases on the facts, and then wrote opinions afterward presenting a rationale for their decision. |
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Then, there are compared instances to which a given rule applies with ceratinty with the facts of the case at hand. |
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To pursue a cause of action, a plaintiff pleads or alleges facts in a complaint, the pleading that initiates a lawsuit. |
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Often the facts or circumstances that entitle a person to seek judicial relief may create multiple causes of action. |
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It is a risky test because it involves the opinion of either the judge or the jury that can be based on limited facts. |
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Unlike the modern jury, these men were charged with uncovering the facts of the case on their own rather than listening to arguments in court. |
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It was believed that the facts should speak for themselves, and that lawyers would just blur the matters. |
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Instead, jurors were recruited from the locality of the dispute and were expected to know the facts before coming to court. |
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For juries to fulfill their role of analyzing the facts of the case, there are strict rules about their use of information during the trial. |
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It is the role of the judge, not the jury, to determine what law applies to a particular set of facts. |
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Jury nullification means deciding not to apply the law to the facts in a particular case by jury decision. |
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The jury in press freedom cases rules only on the facts of the case and the question of guilt or innocence. |
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The ancient Greeks considered geometry as just one of several sciences, and held the theorems of geometry on par with scientific facts. |
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The postulates of Euclid are profitably motivated by saying that they lead to a great wealth of geometric facts. |
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The truth of these complicated facts rests on the acceptance of the basic hypotheses. |
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Writs for action were filled out for a litigant stating facts, without any necessity of pigeonholing them into specific forms. |
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One important exception to this rule is that, when a party alleges fraud, it must plead the facts of the alleged fraud with particularity. |
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The real likelihood test centres on whether the facts, as assessed by the court, give rise to a real likelihood of bias. |
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One criticism is that the emphasis on the court's view of the facts gives insufficient emphasis to the perception of the public. |
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The facts of Erie itself were an example of the kind of clever forum shopping practices which the Court wished to end. |
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However, it is ultimately for the national court to apply the resulting interpretation to the facts of any given case. |
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The law of evidence governs the proof of facts and the inferences flowing from such facts during the trial of civil and criminal lawsuits. |
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Most law courses are less about doctrine and more about learning how to analyze legal problems, read cases, distill facts and apply law to facts. |
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We Germans more than anybody else stand in need of a knowledge of the facts concerning this question. |
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It praises loyalty, absence of bias, deference, and the appraisal of facts. |
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Scholars are hesitant to make unqualified claims about the historical facts of the Buddha's life. |
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He stated in the preface that he had compiled 20,000 facts from 2000 works by over 200 authors, and added many others from his own experience. |
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Historians are duty bound never to salt the mine of history by the creation of ersatz facts introduced to fulfill their preconceived ideas. |
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With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess. |
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Lavishly illustrated with 250 rare photographs, full of delightful anecdotes and little-known facts about stars and starmakers. |
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These facts reinforced the view that the Maya drew their basic sustenance from corn, most of it grown on slash-and-burn plots known as swiddens. |
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The boy was left with Bob Yancy mainly because nobody else would take him. Them's the facts. Now go on! |
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The facts of toxic masculinity are rarely discussed after mass shootings, as we beat the usual drums of gun control and mental health. |
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The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. |
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These facts are set forth for learning to typewrite in Part II of this book. |
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If he does, there is a chance for a limited, and relatively undamaging, ruling that hews closely to the facts of this case. |
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In denying APL's request for reconsideration, the Court found that APL failed to provide any newly discovered material or relevant facts. |
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Supporters and foes commend Pearson's deftness at getting things done, her ability to buttress her passions with an armload of facts. |
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These are not just high-sounding words but facts of history, thoroughly discussed by Max Scheler and other axiologists. |
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The informed and informative text by author Penny Olson is filled with a wealth of fascinating facts about the wedge-tailed eagle. |
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Tanaka also told the court that he has no intention to contest the basic facts surrounding the 1970 hijacking, the first air piracy in Japan. |
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Indian Doctress'' Molly Geet will present Algonkian Indian stories and will share the facts and folklore behind native plants. |
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Historians since then have argued over the facts of the matter and how to interpret them, with little agreement. |
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The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. |
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Children were taught to memorize facts through oral and graphic methods that originated during the Renaissance. |
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He kicked up dust about how we really didn't have our facts straight regarding his allegedly loaded gloves. |
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When a set of facts are brought before a judge, he deduces the court's ruling by comparing the facts of the individual case to the law. |
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Once a case is decided, the same plaintiff cannot sue the same defendant again on any claim arising out of the same facts. |
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Key data and facts about the region are produced by the South West Observatory. |
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Martin presented the list to the 30-member House Republican Policy Committee, laid the facts on the line in cold political terms. |
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The movie deliberately misrepresents the facts about her life. |
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Thomas Gradgrind now presented Thomas Gradgrind to the little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts. |
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From philological research, we know certain facts about the pronunciation of English during the time of Chaucer. |
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He may well have served as a tutor for an aristocrat on the Grand Tour, but the facts are not clear on this point. |
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These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in. |
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If we ever misstate the facts it is, alas, because sometimes we mismean the proposition that we utter. |
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Often, she would discover facts that had been overlooked or misreported by the mainstream press. |
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As a marketing tool, these papers use selected facts and logical arguments to build a case favorable to the company sponsoring the document. |
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These were rooted not only in objective facts on the ground, but in the political interests of those articulating them. |
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Energy in Depth, an oil and gas industry lobbying group, called the film's facts into question. |
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. |
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The voice of a guide introduces the town, discussing the facts of Llareggub. |
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He wrote that testimony might be doubted even from some great authority in case the facts themselves are not credible. |
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Apart from these bare facts, nothing certain can be gathered from contemporary accounts. |
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Therefore these facts are doubly anomalous, since they have not only gemination after a nonback vowel but also after a vowel that is stressed. |
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Historian Don Farr wrote that Haig's entries are at odds with the facts and that he relied heavily on what Horne had told him. |
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The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality. |
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In 2003, the Finnish film The Grey Seals of the Baltic added facts to the legends. |
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He doesn't editorialize and he doesn't try to opinionate. It is just the facts. |
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Judges were also banned from taking bribes and were supposed to use sworn inquests to establish facts. |
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Originality may be the capacity to look at the same facts and see new explanations. |
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However the case may be with societies under widely different conditions of development, the law of mass and individuality holds true of the social facts known to us. |
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Tacitus's writings are known for their dense prose that seldom glosses the facts, in contrast to the style of some of his contemporaries, such as Plutarch. |
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It therefore implies greater care than usual in the act of the performance of one's duty, such as in testimony to the facts of the matter in a court of law. |
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This theory owes more to the period it was developed in than to historical facts, but it continues to be used in both political and popular thought to the present day. |
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We are confronted by two intervenient facts of significant importance. |
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A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts. |
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As a consequence, many documents that could reach other European countries included fake dates and faked facts, to mislead any other nation's possible efforts. |
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These facts, together with the occurrence of a rash, show that the disease possesses many of the features which characterize kedani or tsutsugamushi fever of Japan. |
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The infographic reports interesting historical facts, including that 1869 was the year when the first wheelchair patent was issued in the United States. |
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A tribunal has the discretion to admit either a legally qualified or unqualified counsel to assist the person appearing before it, based on the facts of the case. |
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Do some back-of-the-envelope calculations before all the facts come in. |
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These are known as appeals by way of case stated, since the questions of law are considered solely on the basis of the facts found and stated by the authority under review. |
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An iudex then would judge a remedy according to the facts of the case. |
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If the facts are undisputed and the inferences to be deduced therefrom clear and unconflicting the question of title becomes one of law and is to be passed upon by the court. |
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The facts of the accident, however, are too ambiguous to reek of malice or recklessness. And the drivers involved, flaws and all, are hardly demons. |
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She was the first to discover and formulate these facts, which in fact constituted the basis for all later attempts to build a model of the molecule. |
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A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and he was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need, the mediator betwixt two else unmarriageable facts. |
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Examinations usually entail interpreting the facts of a hypothetical case, determining how legal theories apply to the case, and then writing an essay. |
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Since it is impossible for a scientist to record everything that took place in an experiment, facts selected for their apparent relevance are reported. |
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Any hypothesis which explains the facts is justified critically. |
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A pro forma invoice is required to state the same facts that the commercial invoice would and the content is prescribed by the governments who are a party to the transaction. |
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Crick concentrated on the facts of Orwell's life rather than his character, and presented primarily a political perspective on Orwell's life and work. |
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Prime ministers have not been immune to spreading alternative facts. |
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I have met people who exaggerate the differences, because they have not distinguished between differences of morality and differences of belief about facts. |
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On the contrary, having picked his side, he persuades himself that it is the strongest and is able to stick to his belief even when the facts are overwhelmingly against him. |
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It primarily deals with cases that arise only within the confessional and which by their nature are private, confidential or whose facts are secret. |
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He was present in Paris when the Versailles train crash occurred in 1842, and produced a statement concerning the facts for General Charles Pasley of the Railway Inspectorate. |
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The essay might, undoubtedly, have been rendered much more complete by a collection of a greater number of facts in elucidation of the general argument. |
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On the facts, the jury's decision to convict was not unsafe. |
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Equality under the law was in their opinion not designed to correct the inexorable facts of the universe and to make natural inequality disappear. |
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English law has no general defence of superior orders and the conduct of every police officer has to be judged on the facts as they believed them to be. |
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The Fantasia about Sylvia Plath is more needed than the facts. |
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For example, a business person can be reasonably assured of predicting a decision where the facts of his or her case are sufficiently similar to a case decided previously. |
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The courts will assess each claim on its own particular facts and therefore if one claimant recovers more quickly than another, the damages will be reflected accordingly. |
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The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files. |
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Ms. Collotta had to be steadied several times by her lawyers as she allocuted to the facts on the Macromedia deal and admitted to taking part in a larger conspiracy. |
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Now he denied there were any mathematical facts to be discovered. |
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Literature-based knowledge vendors often claim to lease various products, including algorithmically extracted facts, and human-curated literature references. |
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A cause of action, in law, is a set of facts sufficient to justify a right to sue to obtain money, property, or the enforcement of a right against another party. |
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However, to Holmes, from the outset, there seem to be a number of facts that do not fit the inspector's case against Simpson, damning as it looks. |
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A Greek, and writing in Greek, he seems to take Rome and its history as one of the facts of life. You cannot think of him as either a Romanophobe or a Romanophile. |
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In the event of a plea of guilty, the court will hear the facts of the case from the prosecution, and mitigation from the defence then consider sentence. |
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With these facts added, the conclusions that the former was in early open field, and that the small common inclosures are an after sign of early inclosure seem probable. |
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While the first group, Brut y Tywysogion, tends to stick to historical facts, the second, Brut y Brenhinedd, is the fantastic creation of Geoffrey of Monmouth. |
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Common properties of hydrocarbons are the facts that they produce steam, carbon dioxide and heat during combustion and that oxygen is required for combustion to take place. |
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Whether the case is resolved with or without trial again depends heavily on the particular facts of the case, and the ability of the parties to frame the issues to the court. |
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This reform moved the attention of courts from technical scrutiny of words to a more rational consideration of the facts, and opened access to justice far more broadly. |
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Because, also, although cosmic creatings and geogonic creatings are historic facts, Moses does not specify one single development of either kind, not even of primal light. |
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We deal only with the facts, the outshow of the theory to which we object. |
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He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened. |
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By this time, briefs relied more on facts than on Latin maxims. |
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This gigatrend is based in part on the notion of a society underpinned by a series of dichotomies between values and empirical facts, and between goals and means, etc. |
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Because the platform was completely destroyed, and many of those involved died, analysis of events can only suggest a possible chain of events based on known facts. |
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The story he gave was something of an overstatement of the facts. |
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The facts probably are that the ordinary symptoms of sorocho are aggravated by the putrid emanations from the tombs, and the virulent diseases result from the latter cause. |
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Almost without exception the criticism of tall buildings as the principal congestors of streets and sidewalks is based on guess rather than on actual facts. |
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The law of evidence, also known as the rules of evidence, encompasses the rules and legal principles that govern the proof of facts in a legal proceeding. |
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In May 2008, Natural England published a report, State of the Natural Environment, which brought together statistics and facts about England's environment. |
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To examine some of the data and facts is a good starting point. |
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The Hollywood concept of clean-shaven, square-jawed young men and fragrant young ladies with cheeks abloom does not seem to square with the facts. |
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This selection of facts, in large part, enables him to write about patriotism, for example, as he always pays a lot of attention to events in Hispania. |
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He ticked off the facts, switchblading out a finger for each one. |
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The development of hyperbolic geometry taught mathematicians that postulates should be regarded as purely formal statements, and not as facts based on experience. |
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In still other cases in which courts have spoken of a conspirator's responsibility for another's acts, the facts clearly show a complicitous relationship. |
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In a normal case, the plaintiff delivered his statement of claim, in which he was to set forth concisely the facts on which he relied, and the relief which he asked. |
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I have not the least doubt of such facts occurring, from what I have seen of portions of fine chloritic schists being entangled in the midst of a gneiss district. |
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It is commonly recognised by historians that, in themselves, individual historical facts dealing with names, dates and places are not particularly meaningful. |
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Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, acting as a circuit court judge, ruled for Wonson, stating that to retry the facts of the case would violate the Seventh Amendment. |
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When issues of fact to be tried by a jury arise, the Court of Chancery may order such facts to trial by issues at the Bar of the Superior Court of Delaware. |
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His histories have literary merit and interpretations of facts and events. |
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