To what extent will imperfect, but still good, administration vitiate the efficiency properties of the tax? |
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So many of us understand others are human and imperfect, but forget the same is true for ourselves. |
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But like most human institutions, scientific peer review is limited in scope and imperfect. |
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Some scholars consider that both jussive and cohortative mood are conveyed by the form of the imperfect. |
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This proportion is only an imperfect surrogate of the presence of mutations giving rise to resistance to antiretrovirals. |
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Particularly puzzling can be perfective verbs in the imperfect and imperfective ones in the aorist. |
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Yet anyone who has any knowledge of international law will know that it is an incomplete and an imperfect system. |
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It takes courage and wisdom to make the best of an imperfect situation and accept the inevitable. |
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The first factor complicating the fight against doping, he said, is the imperfect art of testing. |
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A few imperfect specimens are about, people who make a living out of their pitiable condition. |
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One important phenomenon concerning the formation of the filter cake on jet-pulsed filters is imperfect cake removal. |
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The verb savoir is the only verb forming irregularly the imperfect indicative. |
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From his furtive and imperfect glimpses, he projects a continuity, itself irrevocably impossible. |
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One of the things we had to learn to deal with were crabby, irritable, and imperfect clients. |
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And if that's so, then these sorts of searches, even based on foreseeably imperfect evidence, are quite permissible. |
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Your troubles momentarily melt away as you become enveloped in the latest saga gripping some glossily imperfect American family. |
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Gnostic teaching distinguished between a perfect and remote divine being and an imperfect demiurge who had created suffering. |
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You will have no doubt that this pudgily imperfect man was once a hardened criminal. |
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Most researchers believe that there is a relation, although an imperfect one, between non-ulcer dyspepsia and infection with H pylori. |
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It may be of imperfect obligation, imperfect in the sense that it does not withdraw jurisdiction. |
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I not proud of it but I can be as abusive, as abrasive and as hurtful as the next imperfect being on life's assembly line. |
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Should we seek absolute standards or more relative assessments of performance in an imperfect world? |
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The racial group you belong to will be an imperfect predictor of the discrimination you suffer or the needs you have. |
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At the same time, Europe and America must redouble their efforts to strengthen the imperfect but necessary system of international governance. |
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The role does, however, expose a flaw in her technique, namely imperfect control in her voice's upper registers. |
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Perhaps the answer lies somewhere in the fact that the world is imperfect and gets more so every day. |
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In Latin, perfective and aoristic semantics fused in the perfect, leaving the perfect and imperfect stems. |
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Last step was sanding with 400 grit sandpaper to get a smooth but imperfect surface for the primer to bind to. |
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If your walls are bowed, bumpy or imperfect, you might be able to achieve a better finish by stripping them bare. |
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The donor, having by then changed his mind, declines to perfect the imperfect gift in favour of the intended donee. |
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A very small fraction of this is due to imperfect elasticity of the solid Earth. |
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If it all begins with humans messing up, and causing an imperfect world it all ends with Jesus sorting it out, and causing a perfect one! |
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If you needed more than a handful of copies, then expensive, smelly and imperfect alternatives, like the mimeograph, were your only options. |
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The alternative is an imperfect land market in which the number of bidders affects the final price paid for land. |
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In this manner, the imperfect market for players has been transformed from one of monopsony to that of bilateral monopoly. |
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Heart disease is an affection of the heart brought on by morbific agents turned loose in the blood from imperfect digestion. |
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Like all secular humanism it puts its faith not in angels but in mortal, imperfect human beings. |
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It's how we are meant to be, and sometimes the unapproachably perfect is best seen in our imperfect striving for it. |
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We live in an imperfect democracy where people can still persuade business and government, if they slog long enough and hard enough. |
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The therapist then shifted to processing within a view of self-context, often characterized by fears of being imperfect, unworthy, or unlovable. |
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But, being a total and utter obsessive perfectionist about most things, it has been a good challenge for me to leave it very imperfect. |
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Among other things, it mentions the caesural pause as a device for finishing an imperfect foot. |
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In an imperfect world, imperfect people are striving to achieve perfection. |
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Most Indians seem to enjoy using Hinglish and local attitudes towards imperfect English have changed. |
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This substance is composed of a hot sulphureous earth, and a watery essence, in such a way that the sages have called it imperfect sulphur. |
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Often the palindromes are imperfect and interrupted by short sequence elements. |
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He may be a chronographer, but a very imperfect or rather insipid historian. |
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Your loved one's idiosyncrasies or imperfect traits become endearing reminders of their realness, humanness. |
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In a world bombarded with images of perfection, these films tell the stories of those who were born visibly imperfect. |
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In a society with an imperfect legal system, any false case can be fabricated, and they will also seem serious and perfect from the outside. |
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That achievement, however tentative and imperfect, would ignite mounting aspirations for democratization from Iran to Morocco. |
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Her hair is clasped in an imperfect bun, her impatience with its ticklish irritation apparent. |
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Because we are human and imperfect, forgiveness can be very difficult for us. |
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And, as everyone knows, those who are imperfect must be punished mercilessly. |
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In a country that doesn't have or especially want an identity card, all forms of identification are imperfect by definition. |
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By his use of the Hebrew imperfect tense, the psalmist shows his present trust in God is based on past experiences of God's presence and help. |
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But an imperfect cadence leaves the listener expecting resolution, which duly comes. |
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Another oft-stated rule was that a perfect 5th, unison, or octave should be approached by the nearest imperfect interval. |
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But the lessee's solicitors have been happy to be sitting there with this imperfect title for months. |
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However, gravitational lenses are imperfect because the rays that pass closest to the lensing mass are deflected more than rays passing further away. |
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Surely this complex issue needs to be negotiated through the troublesomely imperfect processes of a fully informed and democratically representative government. |
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The Electoral College may be imperfect, but its moderating influence on the American politic should not be laughed off too easily. |
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A baby that appeared weak or sickly at birth, or had even a minor birth defect such a cleft pallet, hair lip, or cleft foot, or was in some other way imperfect was killed. |
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Since the aorta and the pulmonary artery develop from a common conus arteriosus, irregular and imperfect development of the septum between them may also produce variations. |
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As with the irregularly shaped planets whose wire armatures appeared to be bent by hand, these imperfect stars were made sweet by their tacky nonchalance. |
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It's messy and imperfect because we are both of those things. |
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So, my question is, along with the supertonic and the original 3 already mentioned, are there any more chords that could precede the dominant in an imperfect cadence? |
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The claimant's evidence was that the purported but imperfect gift had been made a long time previously and not after receipt of Mr Blake's letter. |
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For once, the concept was great but the execution imperfect. |
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The goal of the preamble was to, in some measure prevent those rash misconstructions, and uncandid reflections, which usually proceed from an imperfect view of any subject. |
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In regards to Germany, it is not difficult to prove that the whole of the moralisings and puzzlings over this seeming anomaly were to a great extent founded upon an imperfect view of the situation. |
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There was a fear growing inside of me that my imperfect bruised college experience was a reflection of my own damaged self. |
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Any human player, however, would have moved the king anyway, because there is the chance that an imperfect opponent might not have seen this mating sequence. |
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Although the red image may be imperfect through underexposure, we may still precipitate the black substance on the parts which have come out, and reproduce on them any amount of blackness we choose. |
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Given a choice between a note-perfect performance with no particular atmosphere and an imperfect performance with special excitement or insight, I'll always take the latter. |
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It makes the images look rough, imperfect, like color Xeroxes, but larger. |
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The majority proposal states that this is an imperfect solution, and it is, specifically because it damages the answerability of MPs that it sets out to improve. |
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However, we are all of us imperfect beings, and punishing the individual for life-style imperfections seems to me to be unsupportable in a civilized society. |
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Cutting loose from the unsung genius is, however, his only chance at real fulfillment, real love, real mastery, transient and imperfect as they are. |
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Encyclicals have long been considered an imperfect genre, hampered by their style and hamstrung by the need to reconcile competing political and bureaucratic factions. |
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The agnolotti, which was firm, filled with ricotta and served with a rose sauce, bore the slightly imperfect shape that indicates they were handmade. |
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The great argument on behalf of the plaintiff was that the facts shewed that there was only an imperfect gift inter vivos, and not a donatio mortis causa at all. |
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Constantly trying to make sense out of an incomplete picture, the private eye is an imperfect avatar, always a few clues short of the whole story. |
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In other words, what was once a matter of law, however imperfect, is now a matter of bureaucracy. |
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His colors are darker, his impasto is thicker, and his brushstrokes are quick and imperfect. |
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Though the grand jury is an imperfect forum for resolving social issues, it works very well in finding truth. |
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Himmler, for example, wanted to drop the imperfect British pounds on the United Kingdom by airplane. |
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The incomparably charming Jean Dujardin began his little Oscar speech with a simple declaration in his imperfect English. |
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Even an imperfect messenger is capable of delivering news everyone needs to hear. |
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Avid moviegoers should be singing the director's praises from the rooftops for daring to thrash out the matter in all its imperfect, dark thorniness. |
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And being Scottish we have about four layers of clothing too many and are pink-faced and puffing in a decidedly imperfect not straight-out-of-a-brochure kind of a way. |
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Werner and Toma also meditate on the practice of wabi sabi, a Taoist train of thought focused on things imperfect and temporal, yet their music is neither of these things. |
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The Indian nation, howsoever imperfect, was in the process of formation. |
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Moreover, institutions, along with concepts from the new microeconomics such as bounded rationality and imperfect information, are now in vogue, which is all to the good. |
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He is here following Socrates' method of the elenchus, where you propose a definition, but then throw it away if it is shown to be in some way imperfect. |
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The difficulty comes from the fact that the imperfect here does not coherently offer a continuously unfolding present that would culminate in the receiving of the letter. |
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It was a well-known fact that imperfect drainage, impure water, overcharged graveyards and want of ventilation, which was usual in places like this, carried the cholera germs. |
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In Spanish, Senora Montoya invited me into her classroom, boasting about my superior abilities to conjugate verbs in the imperfect tense the quickest in the class. |
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It was not unknown for the die to be imperfect because the design drawing had been interpreted incorrectly, or inconsistently in relation to the stitching pattern. |
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Engineers such as Arthur Woolf were trying to tackle an engineering problem with an imperfect understanding of the physics. |
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Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect. |
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The story of St. Edmundsbury shows how gradual was the transition from pure serfage to an imperfect freedom. |
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That BMI is an imperfect measure of body size is emphasized here as well. |
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The problem was that, at least in Iowa, this model was imperfect. |
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But law is, at best, an imperfect instrument of grief and expiation. |
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War is no simple matter, and imperfect policies are the price we pay for slapping down threats before they can hurt us. |
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How much do we revert to and inhabit the imperfect tense, an index of what is never finished, always in process? |
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However, all price indexes are imperfect because of distortions and limits to their coverage. |
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There, the photon encounters a beam splitter, essentially an imperfect mirror. |
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The best likely result, however, is a court order to use nonsectarian prayers instead, an imperfect solution to many humanists. |
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In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance. |
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The young man seems to entertain but an imperfect appreciation of the respect due from a menial to a Castilian hidalgo. |
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The imperfect is constructed in a similar manner, as are the periphrastic forms of the future and conditional tenses. |
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Laughing is produced by an inspiration succeeded by a succession of short imperfect expirations. |
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But to be mutable or changeable in way of diminution, lapsable or peccable, is an essential property of a rational imperfect being. |
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Unlike perfect competition, imperfect competition invariably means market power is unequally distributed. |
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New classical macroeconomics, as distinct from the Keynesian view of the business cycle, posits market clearing with imperfect information. |
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The Latin pluperfect was preserved in very early Old French as a past tense with a value similar to a preterite or imperfect. |
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The second and third conjugations already had identical imperfect tense forms in Latin, and also shared a common present participle. |
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Since many such imperfect conditions exist in virtually every market, there is in fact little presumption that markets are in general efficient. |
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Any category you come up with is going to be imperfect, but that doesn't preclude you from using it or the fact that it has utility. |
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The olivine crystals in most basalts are imperfect, lacking clear crystal faces. |
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However imperfect or imperfectly related the viewpoint, Pytheas was the first to associate the tides to the phases of the moon. |
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Columbus's knowledge of the Atlantic wind patterns was, however, imperfect at the time of his first voyage. |
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Washing the skin with soap is only a partial and imperfect solution to the smell. |
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Human justice is imperfect, and the failure to recognize its fallibility can transform it into a source of injustice. |
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Thus he doesn't oppose God, but works within his plans as a tempter, therefore human can master his imperfect nature and recognize good. |
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I could write about the difficulties in trying to live as personalists in an imperfect world. |
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Problematic as FTM phalloplasty famously is, MTF genital surgery is also imperfect. |
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The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo. |
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The foregoing list of moods in the imperfect Figures II and III does not contain Baroko or Bokardo. |
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In addition, the paradigm of the verb sannoa has also week-grade forms of the 1st and 2nd person singular and plural of the imperfect tense of the indicative mood. |
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And thus may the slow and imperfect wits of mortals be satisfied, that Providence to the Deity is no moliminous, laborious and distractious thing. |
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The imperfect tense is essential to embodying the heroine's consciousness. |
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Evil is therefore only an imperfect understanding of the world. |
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The dangers associated with network relationships are, however, mitigated by the imperfect imitability of knowledge based resources, as well as legal and procedural means. |
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In the end, both sides will walk away from their maximalist positions and arrive at a compromise that, while imperfect, meets their essential needs. |
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It has syncretic forms in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular of the present subjunctive, and in the 1st and 2nd person singular of the imperfect subjunctive. |
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Admittedly some of Larkin's early poems tend to be similar to Wright's imperfect pastorals in their tendency to aestheticize that which is not usually considered pastoral. |
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In the real world, markets often experience imperfect competition. |
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One may describe a situation aspect as a perfect or imperfect. |
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A perfect situation aspect entails an event with no reference to time, while an imperfect situation aspect makes a reference to time with the observation. |
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The imperfect prince was a role he could get his arms around. |
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He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect. |
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He went on, in that obsessive way of his, to found the Met Office and invent the Beaufort Scale, as well as weather forecasting, then, as now, an imperfect art. |
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The imperfect of the root is probably the origin of the dental suffix. |
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It must be owned, the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things! |
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But we do see imperfect things in nature, dwarfed, blasted trees and other apparent miscarryings. Yet they are as perfect as their environment allows them to be. |
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