So I kept my Boroughmuir hat on to an extent, and in many ways have a foot in both camps. |
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People talk about multinational influence in politics setting the agenda, and while this is true to an extent, it isn't the whole picture. |
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It's this sinister sparkle that has drawn me to the genre of cyberpunk in fiction, film, and even to an extent in music, for many years. |
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Gimblett's ostensibly modernist abstractions are constructed, to an extent, like postmodernist pastiches. |
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We can share ideas and personnel to an extent that would be unimaginable in any other industry. |
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Women's temperance rhetoric and activity bolstered brotherhood temperance efforts and to an extent influenced union policy. |
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I say that because to an extent, a degree of that happened on the race agenda. |
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Your Honours, this is case where it is submitted the course of justice has gone awry to an extent meriting the attention of this Court. |
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One is the ability of whites to flee black crime to an extent unavailable to blacks. |
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In our electronic culture the image dominates to an extent that can almost reduce the words to extras. |
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We did cover this to an extent in 2002, so here's the link to satisfy your inquisitive hunger. |
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So the activists' nightmare of massive biotech monopolies dominating the globe is to an extent a Frankenstein's monster of their own creation. |
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A dialogue, based to an extent on differing interpretations and differing frames for reading situations, has emerged. |
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For his parents there is the comfort of knowing he is protected to an extent within Oxford's collegiate system. |
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Some of these measures have been achieved, to an extent, but often outside the UN framework. |
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By 1695, the English parliament had seized to itself an authority to influence financial policy to an extent unimaginable under the Stuarts. |
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And to an extent, some forward-thinking pioneers already have made their foray into this new frontier. |
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The decline in the primary sector was to an extent offset by the growth in production in the secondary sector. |
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The viewing screen can be shaded to an extent from the sun or other directional light sources, by means of baffles, but the basic problem remains. |
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Scots as a poetic language may be synthetic to an extent, but its enduring power lies in the thrill of the demotic, making things stranger and somehow more real. |
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The decision of the department to make speed governors mandatory for heavy transport vehicles and stage carriers would curb to an extent the over-speeding of heavy vehicles. |
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At the same time, the positive part of the lift must outbalance the negative to an extent, that it can carry the weight of the aircraft. |
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We will drive up the cost for all these other agreements to an extent that would simply be irresponsible. |
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Well-disposed to Britain: perhaps to an extent damaging to him in the African context. |
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You have lowered yourself to an extent I didn't think was conceivable. |
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Ryan will have expected and, to an extent, accepted the media mauling that has followed the pre-tournament favourites' dramatic exit. |
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He is simply a bit of an idiot, and to an extent a victim of his times. |
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It is only manipulatable if we are manipulatable, which is true to an extent, but not completely like a published text is. |
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How much does your perceived strength help you weather the storm to an extent? |
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Evidentially, however, none of the cases is developed to an extent that would allow the identification and linking of perpetrators. |
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My imagination is to an extent crushed by the stupendousness of reality. |
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It had therefore concluded that the aid did not affect competition to an extent contrary to the common interest. |
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As with all systems, any change in one part affects the totality, to an extent which of course varies depending on the nature of the change. |
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This will allow them to maintain their separate identities to an extent not possible under an acquisition or merger. |
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To be sure, this would be unconstitutional in the conventional sense at least to an extent. |
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For example, it should be the same as drug pushers, to an extent. |
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My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job. |
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Mr. Perrot, whilst accepting that he now had no independent recollection of events, had to an extent been able to refresh his memory from the documents. |
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While reflation does resuscitate the economy to an extent and lift consumer spending, consumers have a relentless tendency to take on even more debt in different forms. |
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Despite its comparative shortness, the short story is open to both the random and the absolutely determined to an extent that would founder most novels. |
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The extended family system has cemented the blood line relationship to an extent that children born of brothers are not called cousins but brothers or sisters. |
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They almost become one-dimensional to an extent, because they are so focused on that specific type of music that it's hard for them to branch out. |
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If all houses and apartment complexes keep their water tanks and sumps clean and treated with chlorine frequently, mosquito breeding can be prevented to an extent. |
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Developing technology, including the monitoring and surveillance of the seas, makes for integration of data services to an extent unheard of in the past. |
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Some consumers exercise their right of withdrawal after having used the goods to an extent more than necessary to ascertain the nature and functioning of the good. |
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The aid must act as an incentive and must not distort competition or trade between Member States to an extent that is incommensurate with the Community objectives that it sets out to achieve. |
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On the basis of the above, the Commission can therefore conclude that the development of trade is not affected to an extent contrary to the common interest. |
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The governing law to an extent also determines the obligations of the parties since it determines the obligations that the parties had not specified in their contract. |
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This seems to overlap, to an extent, with this Directive. |
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Each picture can be broken down into clear and distinct bits – there's absolutely no blurriness – which are to an extent repeated from picture to picture. |
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The new communication and information technologies are affecting the lives of people and the functioning of societies to an extent that is difficult to assess, let alone foresee. |
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The contingency covered shall include inability to engage in any gainful occupation to an extent prescribed, which inability is likely to be permanent or to persist after the exhaustion of sickness benefit. |
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Both countries are characterised by polarised politics which have made reform difficult although, to an extent, the results are now coming through. |
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Duress may be found if the pressure used is not accepted by the law as legitimate, and it is applied to an extent that the person has no choice but to accept. |
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They have been helped to an extent by unguarded statements from MPs who should know better or, at least, show have grasped that their words could be twisted. |
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Devoicing of word final consonants is a feature of modern Breton and, to an extent, Cornish. |
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In general terms, in the old countries of Europe, we maintain the nobiliary requirement to an extent. |
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It is conceivable that a person unable to work for three years before applying for a CPP disability pension could recover to an extent that he or she can re-enter the job market. |
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Spielberg's most searching films are to an extent self-searches, as if he wished to probe his freakishly unlimited capacity for wonder, but, for a master of a public medium, he is not much of a showoff. |
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The first conception of ethnicity is a voluntaristic and to an extent primordial one, emphasizing the ethnic group's self-definition that is presumably traced to common ancestry. |
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This at least describes, to an extent, and without limiting it, the range of musical landscape in which Oldman the bass player and guitarist when needed, but also vocalist and sample alchemist, evolves. |
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In the American Civil War, field fortifications emerged as an essential of warfare, with both armies employing entrenchments to an extent never before seen. |
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Aristotle's beliefs in the hymn heroised and divinised Hermias to an extent that ordinary Greek religion did not allow. |
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The fact is that the Peruvian, who also holds an Italian passport, was idolised in Bremen even at the tender age of 20, to an extent that subsequent stars such as Ailton and Diego have never really achieved. |
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This means that spatial autocorrelation does not merely affect immediately adjacent districts but also all those that are geographically close, to an extent that is strictly inverse to distance. |
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However, should these new systems evolve in a manner or to an extent that they become a critical element of the payments system, and a broader public interest arises, then some oversight responsibility would be appropriate. |
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For example, the 1987 DOT review reported that motor vehicles at regional offices were being underutilized to an extent that indicated that a considerable number of the vehicles were not needed. |
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Thus, today we are confronted with operations that bind parts of the stabilization forces for a decade or more to an extent unforeseen at the time. |
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But contrary to Brazil's claim, the biggest threat to Latin American democracy today is happily not coups: it is elected presidents who themselves corrode democracy as, to an extent, Mr Zelaya did. |
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By 1950, forests had recovered to an extent not seen since the 18th century. |
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Linguistics is useful in the analysis of culture, and to an extent political associations. |
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This problem can be avoided to an extent through the transport of waste by rail from transfer stations. |
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The worship of Egyptian deities in particular flourished under the Flavian dynasty, to an extent not seen again until the reign of Commodus. |
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Chinese missionaries were able to assimilate Buddhism, to an extent, to native Chinese Daoists, which would bring the two beliefs together. |
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The Barbary pirates continued to capture slaves from Europe and, to an extent, North America, from the 16th to 19th centuries. |
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These words have become common in South Africa to an extent of being used in many other South African languages. |
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The detailed definition of the term is problematic and to an extent governed by convention. |
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Only under such extreme conditions is carnivory favored to an extent that makes the adaptations advantageous. |
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One particularly vivid passage in Smith's Theory physicalizes sympathy to an extent almost worthy of Frankenstein's science. |
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Such aid is not expected to distort competition in a manner that will palpably alter the trading conditions between port undertakings to an extent contrary to the common interest. |
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The authority of Parliament continued to grow, and, during the early fifteenth century, both Houses exercised powers to an extent not seen before. |
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The mythology of Ireland was originally passed down orally, but much of it was eventually written down by Irish monks, who Christianized and modified it to an extent. |
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Standardized weights and measures existed to an extent in the ancient world, and gold may have operated to some degree as an international currency. |
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It is a tragic story of undying love much like the later Romeo and Juliet, which was itself said to have been inspired by a Latin version of Layla and Majnun to an extent. |
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Briefly, red blood cells are first lysed in a large volume, which dilutes the hemoglobin and anticoagulants to an extent that PCR and post-PCR treatments are not inhibited. |
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Zapotec elites engaged in the market economy early on, which undermined to an extent the bonds between commoners and elites who colluded with the Spanish. |
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However, all counties and duchies would differ to an extent. |
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Brideshead's selection as the American Book of the Month swelled its US sales to an extent that dwarfed those in Britain, which was affected by paper shortages. |
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The impact of disasters was to an extent increased through human activity. |
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Essayists theorize queerness and problematize racism and black homophobia to an extent so excessive as to restrict their work to the realm of academia. |
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Demand for manuscripts grew to an extent that the Monastic libraries were unable to meet with the demand, and began employing secular scribes and illuminators. |
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The average was maintained until June, when the rate fell to about one submarine per day, to an extent due to a bombardment of Zeebrugge on 9 June. |
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He is able to reconcile, or even to fuse, differing views to an extent which makes it almost impossible to attribute to him a definite individual system. |
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