He has failed thus far to provide a compelling rationale for his candidacy. |
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The council reported that he had provided a compelling case to give the green light for carefully managed commercialization. |
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His shift from inscrutable correctness to open resentment and then to a kind of familiarity is both compelling and hilarious. |
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For a book of the life of a man for who not a lot happened, it is a compelling read. |
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The book, with compelling lucidity, draws the reader into a rare mix of erudite scholarship and sheer readability. |
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If anything the sheer poignancy and compelling simplicity of this vision of our existence deepens with age. |
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Chinese products like toasters, cordless kettles, egg cookers, solar-powered garden lights, toys, toy watches, etc., are compelling but cheap. |
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In the title role, Campbell Scott gives a wonderfully compelling portrayal. |
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But it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling. |
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A compelling influence on me has been the feminist movement and the reexamination of men's roles in relationship to women. |
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In addition to these compelling narratives, the chapters include numerous references and a section of reflections, questions, and exercises. |
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There are no other compelling reasons or interest which justify this being given permission for a further appeal. |
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Statistics provide a compelling illustration of how labor-intensive restaurants are compared to other industries. |
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There is one compelling reason to consider certificating your aircraft as an ELSA sooner. |
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There is a compelling argument for the reintroduction of compulsory scripture classes in every secondary, not to mention, business school. |
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Alexis felt a compelling need to yawn but as she opened her mouth the arm tightened. |
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And no matter how compelling the evidence, most of these juries would not render a guilty verdict. |
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I'm Not Scared may signal a renewal of compelling, socially aware Italian film-making. |
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The replacement cycle tends to be three years for PCs, and a compelling set of technologies and features also motivates replacements. |
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It is endlessly fascinating, utterly compelling and a feast for the eye with fountains, churches, palaces and ancient monuments at every turn. |
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Born to Buy would have benefited from more narrative, anecdotal sugar in the form of compelling characters to make the medicine go down. |
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It is an emotionally resonant and compelling personal story, and all of it is true. |
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The assumption seemed to be that any group of people willing to resort to such extreme measures must have a just and compelling cause. |
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But the compelling counter argument is that, although apparently arcane, it does reflect the reality at that given point in time. |
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Even were we to judge an author's arguments as compelling or obvious, only time and the future decides whether or not they are true. |
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The lure of a compelling game, along with glitzy corporate-sponsored lesson plans, is attractive to overworked teachers. |
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There are other justifications for incest laws that might be more compelling. |
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It is through an unexpected blending of rhythm and syntax that his prose yields the remarkable or compelling image. |
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If you give people a compelling reason to come back every week for more pieces of a story, you will create rabid fans. |
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Just as important as rigorous analysis when restructuring a company is a compelling vision of the future, she said. |
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The clean lines and the simple shapes are compelling in their quiet beauty and grace. |
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But the rest of you, listen up, because I've got compelling arguments with which to convince you, or your friends, if you're already a believer. |
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No important point of principle or practice arises and no other compelling reason exists for an appeal. |
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Accurate and compelling articulation of policy ideas is critical to presidential leadership. |
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Let the film-makers first give us a compelling reason to pay attention to their work. |
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Imposing such a ban requires far more compelling logic than the assertion that we should not play God. |
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Christopher is compelling and loveable in his lack of guile, but I quickly found myself pitying him rather than seeing him as an equal. |
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In astrology Mars represents the compelling force of action and initiative. |
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The result is warm, humane and a compelling counter to the callous creed of Social Darwinists. |
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Evans's writing is evocative and full of atmosphere, her plotting compelling and convincing. |
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The court has accepted that the appellant was convicted on the compelling evidence that was placed before the jury. |
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There are a few factors that may be compelling India to talk about bringing the Kashmir issue to the table earlier rather than later. |
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The arguments are constructive with compelling evidence to support the claims. |
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Despite compelling evidence, he and other officers have received no convictions. |
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Shuffling across thousands of songs suddenly becomes an utterly compelling experience. |
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What is the compelling reason for beginning your fencing career with the foil? |
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There are compelling reasons why such a course of action would also be foolhardy and counterproductive in addition to hugely unlikely. |
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In 90 minutes of compelling drama, the actors explore the impossible intricacies of love, domesticity and sexual passion. |
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His historical analogy was compelling, but that didn't save him from being denounced by right-thinking peers for his tastelessness. |
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There is compelling evidence that an important factor contributing to the development of cancer is the emotional make-up of a person. |
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Neither government has demonstrated any compelling evidence it will reduce borrowing anytime soon. |
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Considering all such factors, there seems no compelling reason to postulate the existence of a hitherto unknown creature in Lake Champlain. |
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It would seem a shame to turn down such a cunning manoeuvre without a compelling need. |
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Occasionally there is too much glad-handing and backslapping, but overall it's a compelling complement to the film. |
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After viewing all of this evidence you would think that there is a compelling argument for the introduction of a winter break. |
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For all the narrative time-shifting and interweaving threads, it is brilliantly readable and its central thesis is compelling. |
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While exploiting the materiality of the mirror, her writing's primary interest is in the compelling intangibility of the reflection. |
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The government has a legitimate, compelling interest in secluding these men and denying them access to the outside world. |
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A competing, though less compelling, interpretation is that similarity mediates the link between liking and perceived intelligence. |
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This film has compelling intersecting historical references via the dress of the 18th century and the African batiks of today. |
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One of the most engaging tracks is Mama, with its compelling thumb piano line, high life guitar, and mesmerising vocal chants. |
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A short retirement can reflect the compelling nature of the evidence, or equally the skill of the foreman in handling the jury's discussions. |
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While he is strangely compelling in this role at first, the red and self-pitying eyes get old after the first 30 minutes. |
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The applications come from IBM and other vendors, and can be bundled and sold at a compelling price. |
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In the process they have cut the worst of the sentimental and melodramatic elements to create a much tauter, more compelling plot-line. |
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His revelations of these falsehoods, fictions, fabrications and fantasies are backed by compelling evidence and cohesive argument. |
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At its best journalism is passionate and compelling for its creators and its audiences. |
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Both draw their power from the compelling image of the strongman posing as the common man. |
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Voters will respond to facts when they are presented in a compelling and believable fashion. |
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This runs counter to the Synoptic story which has the soldiers compelling Simon of Cyrene to carry the cross to Golgotha. |
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Without the frisson of danger, however, Brown's illusion was about as compelling as a languid afternoon spent bending spoons. |
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They argue that these benefits can make the sums even more compelling, especially for middle-class families. |
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The result is a compelling human interest drama that only overplays its hand in the heart-tugging overkill of the closing sequences. |
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The game's audio is a fantastic display of fantasy mixed with mystery, compelling wales and engulfing RPG style ear candy. |
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Call it mind over matter, call it compelling self assured confidence, call it what you like, but I won, and I knew I would. |
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Otherwise, how can slim evidence of past crimes be transmogrified into compelling evidence of future ones? |
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With the shimmying dance hall regulars of A Duke for the 90s, Washington creates compelling, identifiable characters. |
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O'Donnell's trippy, philosophical trialogue was compelling and definitively alive. |
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This tale of physical misery, compelling as it is, is not the main focus of Young's play. |
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The lack of any compelling national interest and the difficulties posed by local tribalism argue strongly against. |
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As a work of literary biography and analysis American Sympathy is compelling. |
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Mike should be congratulated on his detailed research, and depth of knowledge and compelling style of presentation. |
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His bitterly honeyed voice and compelling presence have threatened to make him a star for some time. |
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One of the most compelling qualities of the book is its retention from the archives of the earthy language of the people. |
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A more compelling reason, however, is that software can't eliminate the problem of garbage in, garbage out. |
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Normally in the absence of compelling reasons it has to be assumed that the cheque was not a blank cheque when it was handed over. |
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This is a compelling work, not least for the dancers' brilliant physical co-ordination, dauntless stamina and sheer feat of memory. |
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I suppose that some people may blast me for these criticisms and claim that they found his adventures compelling. |
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She was such a compelling, unconventional character, yet people might question her morality. |
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Despite these weaknesses, his film has many compelling moments with strong performances from the leading actors. |
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One of the most compelling features of the pyramids, in addition to the architectural feat of just building them, was their mortuary art. |
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Next he restrained the monkeys' healthy forelimbs, compelling them to reuse the deafferented limbs, which they otherwise avoided doing. |
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No matter how it's played, though, Rabbit Run exists in a very compelling state of continual unbalance. |
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His melancholy voice and poetic talk of God and anarchists is compelling, especially with the retro-sounding organ, harmonica and horns. |
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She returned the stare, his dark, unblinking eyes not really piercing, but compelling. |
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As such, Kant's argument here is a compelling and, obviously, debatable one. |
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I've heard very few that are actually as compelling as the artist's main body of work. |
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Remote-sensing and other geospatial data provide an accurate and visually compelling backdrop in which to embed related data and models. |
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We invested in the future, offering our customers and viewers a compelling, immersive, multiscreen shopping experience. |
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Nobody can resist a compelling story and even fewer can resist one so intricately woven into the total experience. |
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Precisely because it is often quiet and undramatic, James explains, charity is hard to make artistically compelling. |
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The result is an honest record that is as compelling as it is decidedly uncommercial. |
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But try though she might, she could not succeed in drawing attention to this compelling side of her. |
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Her story is a compelling example of what can happen to migrant women who are unequipped socially and economically to deal with their new role. |
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The irony is that the most compelling arguments for fiscal freedom come not from Nationalists but from Unionists. |
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It's just too bad that he can't resist the temptation of inflating a compelling story with too much self-importance. |
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But, as Hollywood has often illustrated, the seed of a worthwhile idea does not necessarily germinate into a compelling motion picture. |
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The chapter acknowledges the compelling explanatory power of the declinist thesis. |
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His is a compelling and often tragic story, but there's a definite element of narcissism there too. |
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Across the board, the creative industries must embrace this, and ensure their product is snackable, but most of all compelling. |
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I did not catch the whole gist of his speech, but I assume that he is forcing us, or compelling us by vote, to sit on Fridays. |
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A compelling leader with brilliant intelligence, he was adamant and unyielding in his mission. |
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This is the most compelling matchup of the third round and the most difficult to prognosticate. |
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The most compelling opportunities for social entrepreneurs are the public schools. |
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In spite of this information, no conclusive or compelling evidence linking chloride uptake to water absorption has been presented so far. |
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The high horizon line flattens the canvas, compelling attention to the strong asymmetrical design. |
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The short-term uptrend also remains intact and there's no terribly compelling reason to believe that it has run its course. |
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We are not yet collectively convinced that the need is compelling, despite the wide applicability of fluid and solid mechanics. |
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What she lacks in sheer firepower she more than makes up for in hypnotic and compelling breathiness. |
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A skilled guitarist and percussionist, he brings compelling songs to the table as well. |
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Her compelling debut novel introduced readers to two fiercely independent soul sisters who embarked on a remarkable journey of self-discovery. |
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Her purpose may be unclear but she has an instinctive playwright's gift for grabbing your attention and compelling sympathy for damaged people. |
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If judged by membership density alone, one might conclude that most running trades workers found the brotherhoods ' message compelling. |
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Bridges spanning the Chicago River provided a compelling motif for several painters in the exhibition. |
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He agrees that, aside from their occasional beauty, there is also a compelling, authoritarian power in these brutalist buildings. |
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One of the most compelling is the marked improvement of our ability to understand speech if we can observe the speaker's lips moving. |
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It was powerful, compelling, emotional, and in sharp contrast to the prepackaged speechifying we are so accustomed to hearing from politicians. |
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He combines a compelling, spellbinding voice and inventive lyrics with the manners and stage presence of a born showman. |
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No such compelling reason, proven facts or demonstrable mistake has emerged. |
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The Castleford-born writer, who emigrated to Canada 20 years ago, always sets his compelling crime novels in God's own country. |
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So blogging will be light for the next two weeks or so, until I find a new equilibrium, or a compelling reason to vent my spleen. |
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And while I can't vouch for its accuracy, the film does a compelling job of portraying Hitler in his dying days in three full dimensions. |
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First they demanded we agree there was no serious or imminent danger compelling us to withdraw our labour. |
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They can exercise a subtle, unseen influence, somewhat like a magnetic field or centripetal force, compelling us inexorably back on ourselves. |
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But some of the more industrial tracks on the album do not have a compelling melody. |
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Handsomely photographed on strikingly beautiful locations, this is a feel-good film that succeeds in telling a quietly compelling story. |
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We aren't opening this fund because we think it's a good time to invest in large caps, although certainly valuations look more compelling. |
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Please note that this is a haphazard collection, and there is no implication that any of these are right, wrong or compelling. |
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Bensusan has established himself as a compelling concert performer and a stellar contributor to worldwide music festivals. |
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Would you use stick figures when full figures would tell a more compelling story? |
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We build a site that is local, compelling and sticky that can drive traffic. |
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The other members of the cast do commendable work with far less compelling roles. |
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But, although indolence is bliss on St Lucia, there are compelling reasons to stir from your compound. |
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I know that generally strained and stilted conversations can't really be described as compelling, but this was a unique situation. |
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What he needs more than his rivals is a compelling issue to give his candidacy heft. |
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Pay-per-view sites with some of the most compelling streaming don't yet show up on the lists. |
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The most compelling portrait in the book is that of Sukanya's grandmother, Ragini Devi, dancer, scholar, and incorrigible rebel. |
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The use of the original languages with English sub-titles was a brilliant and compelling device. |
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Arp's evidence for galaxy formation by ejection of quasars from the centres of active galactic nuclei is extremely compelling. |
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Both tracks conjure compelling images of the sun and warmth with their distinctive, distortion-cloaked guitar styles. |
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There's another compelling reason for marketers and agencies to outsource this type of service, Park adds. |
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The breakthrough toward subjectivism is indeed compelling but rationalism was not finished yet for all that. |
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Most were working in circumstances where social mores were subordinated to much more compelling things like the need to survive. |
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In fact, all the characters in this film are equally compelling, giving a quirky impression of life in suburbia coming apart at the seams. |
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If you can get past the occasionally hokey dialogue, these stories are wonderfully charming, compelling reads, and fantastic value for money. |
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Astronomers are now finding compelling evidence that smaller and smaller planets orbit distant suns. |
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The art of death has never been so compelling, so entertaining as in these superb north Italian monumental cemeteries. |
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An international team of astronomers have provided compelling evidence that we have a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. |
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The very complicatedness of this layered, homosocial, mentor-mentee liaison makes it compelling, if not exactly coherent. |
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This book contains an emotionally riveting, devastatingly honest, and morally compelling answer. |
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The endless sequences showing infiltration into the supervillain's island base are flat, with no compelling mystery waiting to be solved. |
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This point leads to an exceptionally compelling aspect of the narrative, the rise and suppression of the opposition media. |
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Surface texture is one of the more compelling features of much original art work. |
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There is something inherently exquisite about Victorian chromolithography that is so compelling. |
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The lord in the gospel parable of the wedding feast told his servants to fill his table by compelling people to come in. |
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The women seem thinly written, ciphers rather than people, making it difficult for any compelling drama to be sustained. |
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The effect is so compelling that hyperinstruments have been used by a wide array of musicians, from Yo-Yo Ma to Peter Gabriel and Prince. |
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He turned and crossed in the one movement and O'Flynn, at the near post, volleyed an exquisite goal to climax a compelling performance. |
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But at least it had the effect of compelling the clodpoles who run world cricket to snap out of their dream world. |
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A few truly compelling works were generated, but also several mediocre ones, along with a couple of real clunkers. |
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Without a precautionary approach, regulatory action might have been delayed pending more compelling evidence of a risk of harm. |
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Whatever about the change in date, the reasons for starting a pension fund are as compelling as ever. |
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It has been described as having a compelling narrative and vivid imagery, giving voice to alternative views. |
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The reasons given by the Court of Appeal for that factual conclusion were cogent and compelling. |
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The case for war has not been presented using any cogent and compelling arguments. |
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The prize will honor a visually compelling, coherent body of work that bears witness and has integrity of purpose. |
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It's like a compelling bad dream whose inscrutable images persist in the traumatised moments after waking. |
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Religious faith naturally appears and is as compelling as the innate desire to be good. |
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The most compelling argument, and the issue at the heart of the liberal perversion of liberalism, is in the area of humanitarianism. |
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There is, however, compelling evidence that collapsibility is increased in the supine position during sleep and under anesthesia. |
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The heartfelt performances and compelling story make for decent, family-friendly fare. |
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Find someone more compelling than a hair colorist to the stars to follow around for a day. |
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The courts will most likely defer to the military on the issue of whether this policy furthers a compelling government interest. |
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It is compelling, fashion-forward product with a great personality behind it. |
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Its impact is enhanced by incisive writing and compelling evidence in profusion. |
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It is obvious that they expect him to make a more compelling case before such a fateful juncture is reached. |
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We are witnessing a compelling, but necessarily incomplete, account of what went on. |
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The visuals are so powerful and compelling that you want to reach out and touch these products, so lovingly and devotionally created. |
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The sound was particularly successful in adding an eerie feel to the mysterious and compelling plot. |
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One significant feature common to all three series is a dramatically compelling struggle between good and evil. |
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The public has a compelling right to know about egregious examples of nepotism and favoritism like this by public officials. |
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It is very important that e-learning must be compelling to the audience it targets. |
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Be sure to look for a compelling explanation of why the rights issue and share dilution are needed as part of the recovery plan. |
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His work provided strong, compelling support for the theory that birds are theropod dinosaurs. |
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The book is a series of disjunctive jottings, often compelling in themselves, but not always smoothly related. |
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His shock and dismay, in stark contrast to the delight of his friends, was compelling to behold. |
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Without this, poetry is enervated and becomes merely the record of consciousness no more compelling than yesterday's sports statistics. |
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There, I am told, we will find compelling disproofs of creationist geology. |
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But it is in the madrassah, not at home, that Anu hears a compelling dissentient voice. |
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He, like his fellow dissentient Lord Slynn, found no compelling reasons for criminal liability. |
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You say there are some compelling reasons to at least entertain the idea of lifting the ban. |
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The talent on stage was enough to present a moving, compelling and entertaining show that would rival any professional production. |
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In the most compelling photographs, the clown is an isolated Everyman, and we are given the freedom to peruse his psychological depth. |
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And, more than sixty years on from the siege, the compelling attraction of music in this place is evidently still felt by ordinary citizens. |
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I thought it was a really compelling one and probably for the same reason I like doing Shakespeare plays. |
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Focusing on soft pastels, Smith also sent a compelling range of leather trousers in dusty pink and black down the catwalk. |
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As well as documentaries, this year's fest offers up a compelling docudrama on an infamous true story. |
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Of course, what is so compelling about e-cards is that they're easy to send, easy to personalize, and have dynamic content. |
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It's a compelling read, and the original article has now been expanded into a book. |
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He spoke loudly, often exploding into laughter at his own cleverness and compelling attention with a strange stutter. |
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This's a fair sketch of idiosyncrasy run amuck, but it's also a compelling portrait of mental and spiritual extremity. |
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Nonetheless, there's a compelling exuberance to the music-making, a sense of shared possibilities being discovered. |
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I secretly find this more compelling and ogle-worthy than the exxy, front-of-book celebrity shoot! |
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His memoir is a compelling and eye-opening journey through his amazingly rich and full life. |
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In Twisted Tales expect the unexpected in a series of compelling dramatised short stories. |
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Overall, the game looks fantastic, plays like a dream and has a compelling story. |
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There are moments of revelation and self reflection dressed as a compelling pitch for the present chapter and ones to come. |
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Perhaps the most compelling reason to buy a desktop computer is to get your choice of flat-panel displays. |
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If there be one compelling test of compulsoriness, it seems clearly to be that of the logical relationship of all claims in any given litigation. |
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In the second movement, concertmaster Christopher Warren-Green's realization of the scordatura violin writing is chillingly compelling. |
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In fact, the similarity is so compelling that D'Arcy has no business attempting a denial. |
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Rarely have the compositional anxieties of the Scherzo sounded more robust and urgent, or its litany of compulsive surges so compelling. |
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Jason shows once again why he is such an irreplaceably compelling voice in the blogosphere. |
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Claiming that no compelling evidence exists and then refusing to acknowledge the existence of any evidence is simply a form of atheistic fideism. |
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It remains a powerful and compelling story that someone comes here with nothing, can't even speak English, and rises to the pinnacle of success. |
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These compelling books illuminate combat at the eyeball level of troops in the field. |
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The audience takes the place of his confessor and, thanks to a compelling performance, experiences both disgust and fascination. |
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While exploiting the materiality of the mirror, Sexton's writing's primary interest is in the compelling intangibility of the reflection. |
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This is why the most compelling answers come from the consilience of genetic and fossil evidence. |
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Moreover, the United States has a compelling interest in learning to distinguish between constructive critics and corrupt subversives. |
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It was a compelling theory, but Sarah was well aware that there had been other factors in play. |
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Supplemented with archive material that showed how the drama was played out on local TV, it makes compelling viewing. |
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The courts have widely recognized that remedying the present effects of an institution's past discrimination is a compelling interest. |
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The story is as old as the hills, and there can be nothing compelling about such hackneyed themes. |
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With careful, economic and compelling prose they follow the virus from its first emergence to its containment. |
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This is a complicated, compelling book with countless strands that would provide fodder for a plethora of novels or histories. |
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But there's a very compelling party interest, they believe, in unifying the party, so one candidate can carry the banner against the candidates. |
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That intoxicating sense of purpose that makes opposition politics so much more compelling than the governing variety. |
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Based on a novel by Ruth Rendell, this compelling tale is told in neat subsections which gradually converge. |
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Such a discovery could also provide a compelling explanation for evolutionary convergence. |
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No credible person could dispute that having impartial judges is a compelling state interest. |
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That may not be the most compelling reason to stop the war, but it should certainly temper her teary-eyed invocation of soldier mythology. |
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Although it is difficult to unequivocally equate regeneration with predatory activity, there is compelling evidence for just such a conclusion. |
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Because of the authority he brings to it, his art is totally persuasive and absolutely compelling. |
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I found it abstract and rather unmoving, more of an idea for a drama than a compelling drama itself. |
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One does not mind the ending, but one notices that when Taylor strings together abstract nouns, he is at his least compelling. |
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It's a compelling strategy and it suggested that Bellow was kindly, caring, a warm-hearted sort of guy. |
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The most compelling feature of the Metro is the coffered ceilings in all the stations. |
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He stops short of saying they for sure should get in, but the argument is a compelling one nonetheless. |
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An accordionist himself, he finds something compelling about the song and begins to learn the stuff that is so dissimilar from his native polkas. |
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Black feminists and womanists have consistently provided the most compelling egalitarian vision for the black freedom struggle. |
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Could there be a more compelling symbol of the almost spiritual place sport holds for the Irish? |
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That's odd, because there's compelling evidence that, at the very least, he fabricated quotes in the speech. |
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The reason for this, I think, is that Mitchell simply manages to weave such a compelling story. |
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A defining moment came on the stroke of half time, when a compelling sequence saw the last man tackled into touch in the act of scoring. |
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What was the compelling news value of the news helicopter's pursuit of the car after cops broke off their chase? |
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Santi and Itti are a pair of compelling, well matched leads with surprising twists and turns to their characters. |
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It is a compelling account of a commonly flawed man who accepted the sacrifices of service and survived with honor. |
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It is incumbent upon the applicant to show compelling community support for the issuance of a new license. |
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Outside the pro ranks, there are compelling cases to be made for Oleg Saitov, the Russian welter, or Mario Kindelan, the Cuban lightweight. |
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But the final two lines deliver a mot juste that is as richly compelling as it is disturbing. |
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Our introduction to Matthew and to the Advent season is as compelling as Luke's conclusion. |
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She brought absolute mastery and compelling musical adventurousness to one of the most difficult works in the repertoire. |
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A golden opportunity to raise the profile of club rugby and bring what has been an intriguing and at times compelling championship to a dramatic conclusion has been missed. |
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The strangest thing about this book is how compelling it is, and the compulsion of it is not simply that of the compulsion to rubberneck at the scene of a gruesome accident. |
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But there is no question that he will bring a compelling case, neigh on to invincible. |
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He was more ambitious and energetic than was his father, and he was the first king of the Capetian line to have success in compelling obedience from his barons. |
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He wants to steamroller ahead with plans to make people save for their old age, rather than compelling the state or the employer to contribute more. |
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Although an undeniably compelling trinity of argumentation, it is not without its logical problems. |
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It opens with a bombastic set piece, but it was far less compelling than many of the little, dialogue-driven conflicts that arose. |
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Yet despite this, its ascendency is no less compelling than that of the Bay Area. |
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When the crowd raise a Mexican wave half-an-hour in, it is pretty safe to assume that the fare being served up before them is short of compelling. |
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Money is money, but the proposition is not all that compelling once you are taxed on the income. |
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The National Wildlife Federation has written up a very compelling case linking our runny noses and our warming planet. |
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If events continue to go south in a big way, the IRGC might be forced to choose between competing, compelling security priorities. |
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For those of you who can still stomach watching baseball after all that's happened, there is some compelling drama to be played out in the coming weeks. |
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But Condola Rashad deserves the Tony for her small but compelling role in The Trip to bountiful. |
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In my opinion, the approach taken in this book was utterly compelling. |
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Here, the assonance rhyme between the two principal terms sets the stage for a compelling comparison made on a genuinely imaginative and rather unexpected basis. |
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Only in bureaucracy or horror movies do people get in trouble for compelling acts of kindness. |
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But the the most compelling environmental feat, on the mostly open stage, is her invocation of the oppressive and threatening mood that hangs over even moments of playfulness. |
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It's a fast-paced pulp science fiction yarn with compelling characters. |
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In Louisiana, a land rich with swampy gothic crime stories and compelling motion-picture tax incentives! |
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Recently the orthomolecular pioneer Jonathan Wright, MD, made a compelling case for lithium being a safe and well-tolerated neuroprotectant at low doses. |
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However, a much more compelling reason to study the small-ion selectivity of a large channel is to test our understanding of electrostatics at the nanoscale. |
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There is compelling evidence indicating that, in some cereals such as maize, barley, rice, and wheat, cytosolic AGPase accounts for the major AGPase activity in the endosperm. |
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Her father died when she was a small girl, thus compelling her desperate mother to give up her only child to the care of an order of nuns, the Ursulines. |
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It is the somatosensory system that provides the most compelling evidence for plasticity, with cortical and subcortical reorganisation, with limits to the latter. |
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A compelling theory was based therefore on slender threads of evidence. |
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This it does either by specifically compelling the promisor to perform or by awarding the promisee damages to put him in as good a position as if the promise had been kept. |
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But to find this a compelling argument, one must already be convinced of the inalienable sanctity of choice, over against every other social good. |
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Though his mix of hip-hop, trad jazz, and club techno sounds intriguing on paper, he rarely manages to come up with anything compelling out of the mix. |
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For instance, the sacred texts of many religions offer compelling narratives which, at their best, can promote ethical reflection and a sense of shared experience. |
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Besides protecting against inflation and devaluation, there are compelling reasons for a country to decide to give up so much control over its economy. |
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And since visual media is more compelling than any other medium, it is consistently their drug of choice. |
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The only current study of washi, it provides a compelling overview, explaining its history as well as the techniques and decorative motifs involved. |
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One can only hope that his ego gets the best of his common sense this off-season, compelling him to exercise his free agent rights and sign with another team. |
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It is rare in the tls office for a single book to be so singularly compelling that everyone who passes by has to stop to look. |
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Even if Zeitz does overpraise Nicolay and Hay as biographers, the story of their lifelong friendship is compelling. |
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Even if he danced at his best, he could not display the same quicksilver in jumps and polished tours, and his presence was less compelling and majestic. |
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