He made a fortune from trade and joined the gentry, but he was by no means the first upwardly mobile business magnate. |
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There was quite a deal of evidence that that amount of money was by no means unusual so far as his situation was concerned. |
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Through it, the Dalits have come to acquire a dignity and pride that is unprecedented, but by no means overdue. |
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This by no means guarantees success, but at least gives them a fighting chance. |
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Yet for all their apparent seriality, the paintings are by no means repetitive or limited by one formal model. |
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It's by no means saying what they're all like, especially the earlier schools at the beginning of the century. |
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While that might be overstating the case just a little, it is by no means totally fanciful. |
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However, this was by no means the case, even before liberal reforms were initiated. |
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It is by no means easy to gain access to that tight legal circle and I am the first outsider to have breached the walls. |
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The album is stuffed with queasy midtempo tracks and bizarre orchestration, but it's by no means impenetrable. |
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Freedom of speech is a fact, although by no means do individuals yet speak out freely at public meetings. |
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Its record is by no means infallible, but Debka strikes me as more reliable than most, and more interesting than almost any. |
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Part, but by no means all, of the attractiveness of the assimilationist ideal is its clarity and simplicity. |
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He is by no means a copyist, but paints chiefly from nature, thinking rightly that he can do more faithful work by following this course. |
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It is an issue to which almost all of us give some thought, yet it is by no means a question easy to unpack and explore. |
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The second family includes some but by no means all of the insects which bear the name cricket. |
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When it comes to flowering, photoperiodism is by no means the only game in town. |
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It is by no means uncommon for people to mislay their original policy document. |
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West Ham had by no means blown themselves out, but early in the second half Albion showed their teeth. |
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This consistent approach would by no means be incompatible with the current system. |
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It does, however, go without saying that general principles are by no means universal truths. |
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He was by no means the only man of letters of his time who had to submit to something like persecution. |
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Meditation is by no means easy listening, but if it's a spiritual experience you're after then this'll blow the cobwebs from your brain for good. |
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Parental leave seems to play an important role in easing some of these issues, but it is by no means a silver bullet. |
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As we have seen time and time again, these international reverberations are by no means unidirectional or even multidirectional, but revolving. |
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Most of the images were pencil and ink sketches, by no means family-friendly in content, with lots of whitespace. |
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Laboratory life may seem austerely clean and clinical, but it is by no means genteel. |
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This is by no means the only new idea that the company is sitting on, with numerous internet projects up its sleeve. |
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Although this language sounds hyperbolic, it was by no means atypical of audience responses. |
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I'm by no means a lover of the sword-and-sorcery genre, but this just seemed to work well. |
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This is praise indeed from the IMF, and it is surely a firm indication that all is by no means lost. |
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Poverty is by no means something to be looked down upon, especially when one is earning a living through honest labour. |
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That was by no means forthcoming and on 23 August 1990 the respondent issued an originating summons in the High Court seeking possession. |
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The charter schools were by no means the only sources of education in pre-nineteenth century Ireland. |
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Not to be outdone there is a growing number of women anglers taking up the sport which shows that angling is by no means a male preserve. |
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David Bellamy is not only a highly qualified academic who has probably studied this subject more than most, he is by no means alone. |
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Fox relied heavily on the strength of his personal image as a caudillo, which is by no means a new phenomenon in Mexican politics. |
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They were by no means from the upper orders, these were street kids in Los Angeles. |
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The Jesus who heals the sick people is by no means described as someone who fulfils a pre-established programme. |
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We should point out that Rosenberger is by no means insensitive to the responsibilities of those dishing out satire and ridicule. |
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One night will by no means be enough to try all the dishes, and a trip to the hawker center sure beats the boredom of room service. |
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In this case, it is assumed the sponge does the attaching rather than the carrier shell, although this is by no means certain. |
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High-quality spiky stipplers are by no means low-priced but it is worth though paying a fine price for a high-grade instrument. |
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We can hope for an early end to the destruction, but as resistance stiffens that prospect is by no means certain. |
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It was by no means a deal-breaker, obviously, but I guess I am a bit old-fashioned. |
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Alternatively, you may be able to make greater returns from investing your capital, but this is by no means certain. |
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This is by no means uncommon to spinners who bowl googlies with a high arm action as it puts considerable strain on the shoulder. |
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The exploration of psychosocial factors in relation to suicide risk is by no means new. |
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We waded the first river barefoot, chilly but by no means unpleasant on such a warm day. |
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It is by no means a masterpiece, but it is not the godawful atrocity that many backward-thinking critics have made it out to be. |
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As the discerning stare of the procuress suggests, the eagerness of the suitor is by no means matched by his torpid purchase. |
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However, to see wandering children selling flowers or begging on the roadside instead of learning at school is by no means rare in the city. |
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This historical perspective is by no means simply a theoretical abstraction. |
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It was by no means the last type of association to detach itself from the state by such a process of abstraction. |
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This is by no means to suggest that I mind when you, gentle reader, lay down a primal scream or two for head-clearing or aesthetic purposes. |
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Moreover, even though quantitative analysis is less subjective than qualitative analysis, interpretation and bias are by no means eliminated. |
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He stood just an inch or two above the other boys his age and was by no means skinny or gangly. |
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The appeal of such romantic drama, of course, is by no means confined to Australia. |
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So while the challenge facing the peace movement in south Asia is daunting, it is by no means impossibly quixotic. |
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First, this process would by no means assign Turkey as the new main actor of the regional balance of power. |
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Nevertheless such success can by no means be treated as a racing certainty. |
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Certainly this province was by no means the cradle of Junkerism as some people think. |
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Under such circumstances, his survival into adulthood was by no means unremarkable. |
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It is not right to do what Mr Kamati did, by no means whatsoever, but I sympathise with him. |
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It is by no means adventitious that this statement combines an ethical proposition with an economic prescription. |
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His remarks were by no means limited to military matters, but ranged over every major issue of domestic and foreign policy. |
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While Aepyornis was by no means as large and terrible as the Roc, it WAS the largest bird that ever lived. |
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Modernisation is by no means overdone, or rather, when it is overdone, it is brazenly clever. |
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It by no means stretches the possibilities of the medium, however handsomely put together and delivered. |
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However, it is by no means necessary to a theory of evolution that it embodies any presupposition of increasing or decreasing complexity. |
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It's an hour before the peak of the king tide and the flood is intimidating but by no means terminal. |
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Horrible and devastating as the Pearl Harbor raid was, it was by no means a knockout blow to the Pacific Fleet. |
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This pint-sized artist may be short in stature but by no means short on talent. |
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A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. |
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I was by no means the only writer who asked herself how she could remain aloof from these events. |
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Though not as starrily cast, and by no means perfect, this Barber is packed with razor sharp humour, and the musical standards are very high. |
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Though certainly a nationalist, he was by no means the most rightwing exponent in either Serbia or the other former Yugoslav republics. |
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Even within the domain of reproducible products, quantity of labour is by no means the only determinant of price. |
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This book shows that science writing is by no means the preserve of specialists. |
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Although they are by no means as striking as total eclipses, annular eclipses can afford a semblance of the experience. |
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But they were by no means as rich as the old Orders, Benedictine, Cistercian, Augustinian, and Premonstratensian. |
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Even after the assassination, it was by no means predetermined that war would result. |
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Although it was by no means the steepest climb of the trek, it was still one of the most strenuous. |
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Brion was by no means the only pundit predicting some form of revolutionary upheaval. |
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This is by no means essential, but I like to do it to give the crumble a more interesting, nubbly texture. |
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It was by no means a full appreciation of the situation, nor did I offer long-term solutions. |
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Another general point about the focus group method is that, while it is gaining in popularity at the moment, it is by no means a new technique. |
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Dividend pay-outs and share buy-backs are by no means antithetical to business investment. |
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I think she should stop counting her chickens before they hatch and stop using a name she by no means has earned. |
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With it, she wore a simple purple shirt with a neckline that was not quite low, but by no means modest. |
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Carbon is by no means unique in this regard as most of the non-metallic elements are capable of forming chains. |
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Vesalius said that the human sacrum normally has five vertebrae but one of six is by no means rare. |
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If I've got 20-30 pages open, which is by no means unusual, then I'm going to be a deeply sad bunny if they all just vanish with a thud. |
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This was probably one of the best of its kind, but it was by no means atypical. |
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Hickey seems to support this version of art world Machtpolitik, and he is by no means alone. |
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The trial developed that administering arsenic and croton oil to old men was by no means the defendant's only foible. |
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The colour from her tan had all but drained from her, her limbs were heavy and powerless, but she was by no means dead. |
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This shows that violent sabotage is by no means unknown in the passenger ferry industry. |
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He was by no means the type of man anyone would expect to spark the sexual revolution of the 1960s, but he did. |
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These songs are by no means depressing, instead they are sensual and saturated with lush instrumentation and brass percussion. |
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I am by no means rich but my husband and I saved up to have a babymoon before my daughter was born. |
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The preferred fragrances for perfumes are by no means universal, but differ according to cultural dictates and fashions. |
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This is by no means in the danger zone, but performance freaks may say bah! |
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This list is by no means exhaustive and is limited only by the boundaries of technology and creativity. |
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It by no means has the same effect eighty years later but the entertaining allegory remains a stimulating theatrical event. |
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The safety of the increasingly dilapidated hulk is by no means assured and the situation is worsened when the foremast is damaged. |
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The author of Glanvill clearly had a sound grounding in Roman law, though the book makes it clear that English law is by no means the same. |
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This is by no means to argue that a return to matriarchy would be either possible or desirable. |
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This is by no means a barn burner, but together with the rest of the system you can even play some simple games. |
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He was by no means as thorough-paced an old sinner as Fitzgerald would have us believe. |
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Katherine laughed with her, but she was by no means as confident as Carrie. |
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Though by no means revolutionary firebrands, all rebel against the older generation. |
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Had the defence done so, we are by no means convinced that the judge would have admitted the confession. |
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These are by no means mutually exclusive categories and many analyses will fall into both categories. |
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Although the sums paid are by no means small, they are a far cry from what the jet set pay across the water. |
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Although this room is by no means small, a large wall mirror creates the illusion of even greater space. |
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She may now have become a thief, but she was by no means ready to become a murderer. |
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Now by no means am I obese or anything, but I actually have to work at keeping my figure, not that I have much of one. |
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However, this life is by no means in and of itself a guarantee of a life not worth living. |
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Abortion-rights advocates by no means seek to detract from LGBT movement or begrudge it victories. |
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Thus, catharsis, in a physiological sense, has been difficult to substantiate, but the results are by no means conclusive. |
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The administration's arguments justifying the wholesale abrogation of civil liberties are by no means limited to an emergency response to an immediate threat. |
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I'm by no means any sort of information-wants-to-be-free absolutist. |
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Similarly astronauts, today's counterpart of the pioneer ocean-crossers of yesteryear, seem by no means youthful and tend to have doctorates in the most abstruse subjects. |
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This is, by no means, a comprehensive guide to winterizing your boat. |
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Such now familiar terms as Orientalism and primitivism, while they mark the beginning of a consensus, are by no means completely defined or delimited. |
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This was a report which, while by no means having all the answers, none the less contains some good information and unanimous cross-party recommendations. |
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The legitimacy of local government was also occasionally called into question in the late 1980s and 1990s, though again by no means without precedent. |
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This formal linkage is, however, by no means a guarantee that further changes will be made to the CAP to remove its persistent elements of protection. |
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And in the looking-glass world of cheap credit, that's by no means clear. |
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This is by no means the only matter that manages to madden him. |
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An iPhone by itself is a cool phone, though by no means ahead of all other phones in terms of specs. |
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The home side were literally outplayed and outclassed by a rampant Crystal side who were by no means flattered by the extent of their winning margin. |
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Lewallen said he'd like to put some Creole and Caribbean-influenced dishes on the menu but by no means is the restaurant theme going to go New Orleans or tropical. |
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It was by no means a foregone conclusion that the UK would get involved. |
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That is by no means an accurate statement, but it has a grain of truth. |
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This is by no means merely a technology issue and the jury is still out. |
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Durer's own poetry is, Professor Price tells us, in a populist idiom, comparable to that of Hans Sachs, the Meistersinger, but, at its best, it is by no means negligible. |
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Although by no means easy, it is easier to be increasingly open about your sexuality if you don't also have to be concerned with racism, sexism, and classism. |
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At the level of scholarship their writings certainly show that Chinese thought was then by no means as bound by tradition as is generally thought. |
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I am by no means a pop music fan but in the run-up to Christmas it seems the army of plebs who buy this bilge lose any last remnant of taste and self-respect they ever had. |
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It was by no means unusual to see children going barefoot in the depths of winter and offering matches for sale with hands that looked like those of old men. |
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Medically, the tummy tuck, or abdominoplasty, was by no means necessary. |
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Stalingrad, besides being the turning-point of the war on the Eastern Front, was also a reminder that an ancient form of land warfare, the siege, was by no means obsolete. |
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The following list is by no means exhaustive, but will give you ideas for some early bloomers that are good bets for producing flowers in late winter and early spring. |
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Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid indeed spoke of New Politics, but by no means offered anything nearing a fresh agenda. |
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Now, of course, there are a number of poets, by no means uninfluential, who read Chinese and Japanese and who are philosophically Buddhist or Taoist or both. |
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Y is by no means a right-wing hawk, but he is willfully blind, deaf and dumb. |
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Loescher repeatedly emphasized that these sites are by no means limited to the La Brea Tar Pits. |
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The cult of hard-headed routine and practicality, as expressed here, was often just another form of romanticism, and by no means always the most effective. |
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The populations least likely to feel Spanish are Catalans and Basques, although these large, complex regional populations are by no means unanimous in their views. |
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This is by no means strange and alien terrain for the Bank of England. |
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Although this was by no means an uncommon pattern in late nineteenth-century Europe, it reflected Italy's relatively subordinate position on international markets. |
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Thus there is a certain amount of overlap between the various chapters, and while this is by no means excessive, it does generate some slight inconsistencies in presentation. |
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He's by no means hirsute himself, judging by the jacket portrait. |
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Some, but by no means all, residual sugar is tasted as sweetness. |
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It is by no means apparent to me how the slate is wiped as clean as the Full Court would seem to suggest it was by the repeal effected by the Repeal Act. |
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Orwell was indeed unsociable, anti-feminist and homophobic, but only ambiguously anti-Semitic, and by no means such a dewy-eyed idealiser of the plebs as some have imagined. |
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While this is not by no means over generous, it is sufficient to propel the car peppily enough for Irish conditions, given its low overall weight. |
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It appears that the illegality of such use was by no means clear. |
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My aunt was a tall, hard-featured lady, but by no means ill-looking. |
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The number of imitative words in any language is bound to be quite small, and for many such words the sound-meaning relation is by no means direct. |
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His was by no means the only example of academicians' pettiness. |
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It was by no means paranoid to imagine the loss of two or three of the Ulster Unionist Party's regular phalanx of 15 or so MPs from the inner counties. |
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Accepting that unfortunate fact is by no means an argument for inaction. |
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This is by no means the only way of internalization, of course. |
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Nixon was a consummate liar, but he was by no means alone for he was operating on the belief that very different standards of morality apply to those in power. |
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Such automated convected climatic control is by no means unusual these days, but in the Turkish pavilion it is more clearly articulated than in any other at Expo. |
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Furthermore, we are by no means satisfied that there was no premeditation. |
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But it certainly appears to contain the germ of the principle of betterment, and it is clear that the principle is by no means a recent innovation. |
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Putting aside for a moment that it's primarily non-verbal, so by nature it defies verbal explanation, but I'm also by no means as adept as I intend to be. |
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The good news is that while a gloomy prognosis for European manufacturing is unfolding, we are by no means in the initial stages of a stagflationary impulse. |
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Though by no means a prolific scorer, the leggy midfielder is always a threat going forward, where he uses his size and strength to full advantage. |
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This list is by no means complete, nor are many of the names surprising, but it does provide a useful sample of deistical writers from which to proceed with this study. |
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Yet, while these opponents of abortion argue their position as a God-given, universal, moral imperative, religious groups are by no means united on the issue. |
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Despite having maps marking out the minefield it was proving by no means simple. |
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These developments symbolise the fact that parliament and government were by no means the same thing by this point. |
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The Church of England, by no means a fundamentalist or evangelical church, encloses a wide range of beliefs. |
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It is by no means clear what material the inhabitants burned in their hearths. |
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The transition between Late Latin and Medieval Latin is by no means as easy to assess. |
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The forcible administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals. |
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In the interim, rest assured that Mr. Atherstone is by no means your friend, for he was perpetually earwigging poor Sir Rowland. |
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The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof. |
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It is clear from this piece and other writings that the political portion of Defoe's life was by no means his only focus. |
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Codification, however, is by no means a defining characteristic of a civil law system. |
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The convergence of political and economic or cultural power is by no means universal. |
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It is by no means equal to football in finance, attendance or coverage, but it has a high profile nonetheless. |
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She was a smiling, confident girl, well-mannered but by no means shy. |
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La expected delivery is therefore by no means a coding optimization to artificially increase revenue but makes many logical objectification. |
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In my opinion, the chief requisite for an actor is the ability to do nothing well, which is by no means as easy as it sounds. |
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The prose is sometimes flat and the dialogue occasionally unconvincing, but she is by no means bereft of novelistic promise. |
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One of the most obvious ground covers is ivy but it's by no means the be-all and end-all. |
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Last but by no means least was a Chateau Musar 2000 from famed Lebanese producer Hochar. |
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Though not all scholars working on such languages use these terms, they are by no means obsolete. |
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Margaret Thatcher might have been able to get by on four hours' sleep per night, but her relationshipwith shut-eye was by no means normal. |
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And even with FSA help, the task would be by no means certain. |
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This is often by no means straightforward, even for seemingly simple parts such as screwable bottle closures. |
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But beardlessness was, as I suggested above, by no means the only characteristic used to produce the opposition boys to men. |
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As indicated above, attempts to strike election themes from the liturgy are by no means new to Reconstructionism. |
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Although Norine had pretended to wash her hands of all responsibility for Branch's little charge, she was by no means so inhuman as she appeared. |
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Excalibur is by no means the only weapon associated with Arthur, nor the only sword. |
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But then, the idea was, that his presence was by no means necessary in getting the ship under weigh, and steering her well out to sea. |
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The result is a creamy, fruit-driven wine that is by no means a butter-bomb. |
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Such an undertaking by no means benefits the low-heeled buskin of modern fiction. |
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In fact, while by no means identical, the cuisines of Hamburg and Denmark, especially of Copenhagen, have a lot in common. |
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The types of consonants used in various languages are by no means universal. |
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While the species is by no means endangered, IUCN lists insufficient data to make an assessment for two of the subspecies. |
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The farm of Papleyhouse near Linkataing may indicate such a link to the past, although the connection is by no means certain. |
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It usually heavily tapered into a joint with the internal keelson, although keelsons were by no means universal. |
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Although superseded by their stone successors, timber and earthwork castles were by no means useless. |
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Although some historians consider this to mean south Lancashire was then part of Cheshire, it is by no means certain. |
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Fresh fish and shellfish in Southern California tends to be expensive in restaurants, but by no means out of reach of the masses. |
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While most Welsh immigrants came to the US before the 20th century, immigration has by no means stopped. |
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The boundaries between these categories are by no means clear. |
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The Impressionists often, though by no means always, painted en plein air. |
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At the same time, this is by no means a confessionally hesitant text. |
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Seth also has chthonic aspects, which might have been regarded as a good omen for those excavating the gallery, although this is by no means certain. |
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The dividing-line between auratic and non-auratic art by no means coincides with that between authentic art and the administered, degraded art of the culture industry. |
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Though by no means a backslapper, he nonetheless functions well enough among others, becoming, eventually, not only a productive but also a revered member of his society. |
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Capacitor, like any company, is always trying to attract viewers, and it's by no means the first to challenge the concert dance status quo to do so. |
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The politically ambitious and the beerily dissolute artisan of whom you read in the newspapers by no means constitute all the odder varieties of the species. |
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Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle. |
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I then set out to survey the town in the self-same palankeen. The houses had all of them an unearthly appearance, by no means consonant to our ideas of Oriental splendor. |
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These are by no means all of Bach's Kammermusik mit Violine. |
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While it was still by no means clear that enough plutonium could be produced for use in bombs by the war's end, Hanford was by early 1945 in operation. |
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But that it was by no means absent is shown by the numerous instances in Acts of the punishment of evildoers and the recompensing of the righteous. |
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While by no means the best known of revivals, it was one of the most dramatic in terms of its effect on the population, and triggered revivals in several other countries. |
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If religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower classes quiet. |
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They had no definite programme or policy and were by no means even united. |
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It is by no means an extravagation of words to say that without the work James has put into Norton Peace over the last 16 years the company would not be where it is today. |
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He has a godlike form and countenance, he is by no means unattractive. |
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At this time, it was by no means a settled custom for the daughter of a king to supersede the brothers of that king in the line of succession to the throne. |
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Touchwood was by no means critically nice in his society, but was observed to converse as readily with a gentleman's gentleman, as with the gentleman to whom he belonged. |
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One man's Alpine horn is another man's tossing the caber, but the partisan support was by no means one-way traffic in Murray's favour among the packed crowd. |
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Generally, breweries in northern England serve their beers with a sparkler attached and breweries in the south without, but this is by no means definitive. |
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While every smoker is by no means necessarily a metal constitutional type, we can look at smoking as a metal type imbalance or a state of the lungs. |
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The military has long been one of the largest purchasers of flexitanks, employing them for water storage during deployments. But that's by no means the only application. |
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Our early popular ideas of the mildness and effeminacy of the Hindoos were derived from the Bengalees, and are by no means characteristic of the general population of India. |
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The name of one of these was Claudius, who arrogated to himself elderdom over the others, though they by no means allowed his claim of superiority, hut quarrelled with him. |
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