He was a man out of control trying to make sense of what he did by playing by his own rules. |
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It did not make sense that a trust in another country would provide unsecured loans to a man in serious financial trouble, he said. |
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Does it make sense for us to promote and increase industrial development upwind? |
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Even the expertly mummified tend to smell bad, so doesn't it make sense that the bodies were entombed with perfumes? |
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The way the managers make sense of this puzzle is best explained in the different economic models for company performance. |
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I think consumer cyclicals make sense because of the resilience of consumers. |
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Some of your own stories, your own version of events don't really make sense. |
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That would make sense, considering that's where these soldiers deployed from and that's where many of their families remain. |
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Piece by piece I am finding aspects of religions or spiritual faiths that make sense to me. |
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There are several cases, however, where I have had to conjecture a reading of the text in order to make sense of it. |
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It would then make sense to reconstruct a corresponding set of velar and labiovelar fricatives. |
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The synopsis may help you make sense of the plot, but it's complicated, if still dramatically compelling, in a Baroque opera way. |
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People get very frustrated because they're trying to make sense out of nonsense. |
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So we must try to make sense of what seems on the surface to be nonsensical. |
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The insupportably low numbers earned by the Enquirer make sense when you compare them with those garnered by People magazine. |
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It is these qualities we need to understand if we are to make sense of this conflicted representation of New York. |
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When dealing with quantities of nuclear waste, it make sense to plan for the long haul. |
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I'm one of those moms that will question their children about things that don't make sense, and call them out on their lies. |
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Does it even make sense to assign a numerical value to something as subjective as wine? |
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All that is clear is that, conceptually, we can make sense of the idea of a person switching bodies and remaining the same person throughout. |
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It may also make sense to add another crossing pipe halfway uphill of the one that washed out. |
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Artists attempt to reinterpret their cultural past by which they have to understand and make sense of the present they live in. |
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So on with the green eyeshade this morning to try and make sense of and comment on the Tory reshuffle. |
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But, it doesn't make sense to me because although Hong Kong speaks Cantonese and Taiwan speaks Mandarin, the written languages are the same. |
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His interpretation and speculation hang together, make sense, and are consistent with the sources. |
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Often he just says a string of single words, hoping the listener can piece them together to make sense of what he is trying to say. |
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The teachers in this program are working hard to make sense of this mess, but the obstacles are great. |
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It does make sense but nevertheless, at least in theory, the president should be the commander-in-chief. |
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That relationship was quite distant, and so he absorbed himself in a tiny scientific world in order to make sense of that relationship. |
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Mr Greenway claims the decision does not make sense and will increase patient waiting lists at other hospitals. |
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She sat at her desk with her open physics book but could not make sense of a word she was reading. |
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The existing window frame needs to be in reasonable shape, or adding a storm window probably won't make sense. |
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That does not make sense, that is not logical, and the judge has abused his powers. |
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Kantian categories of thought which we use to make sense of the world are those possessing this property, which we shall term reciprocity. |
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We often make sense of other people by categorizing them into labels and boxes that we ourselves feel comfortable with. |
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In the movie, the boy's parents are flat one minute, falsely animated the next, and their actions never fully make sense. |
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He was so orderly and disciplined that it didn't make sense for him to not be right on time. |
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If a personal noun was necessary to make sense of running conversation, I added the name. |
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The 26-year-old Celtic striker's long-term plans make sense in anyone's language. |
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In string theory, the strings collide over a small but finite distance, and the answers do make sense. |
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If the page count of a book were a measure of its quality, or of how much I am likely to enjoy it, then it would make sense to play those odds. |
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How can we make sense of such drastic variations of a subaltern woman's identity with the invaluable preciousness of a human life at stake? |
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Here's an image of Latino life that challenges us as viewers to make sense of it. |
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She is charged with the task of ensuring the government's lifelong learning plans make sense to the public. |
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Before he could make sense of the hieroglyphs, a heavy feeling overtook him as his meal worked through his limbs. |
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Trying to make sense of this proposal leads to some interesting observations about grammaticality and anaphora. |
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Although these passages were written in Chinese characters, they make sense only to speakers of Hokkien. |
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While it may seem to make sense to work cattle after sundown, wait until the cattle have had at least six hours of night cooling before working. |
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It would not, however, make sense to sacrifice rare or expensive wines in the cooking pan. |
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To make sense of such resuscitations, London physician John Fothergill proposed that suspended animation was a curable form of death. |
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To make sense as a concept, the Christ has to be an Everyman, a man without qualities. |
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Does it really make sense to lead with your chin on raising middle-class taxes? |
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As the illness progresses, the individual tries to make sense of all the abnormal experiences and develops well systematised delusions. |
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Many of these provisions may make sense if they are placed in ordinary legislation. |
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We struggle to make sense of that, and despite our hypnotic attraction for all things royal, we turn the page. |
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Otherwise the same old struggle to make sense of what looks like very pedestrian work from last week. |
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Does the rule that a legislator be present to vote make sense, or is it merely an anachronism? |
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Of course, these stern warnings only make sense in light of what was announced and celebrated on Pentecost and Trinity Sundays. |
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They were a unit, inseparable, like two antique salt and pepper shakers that only make sense if the other one is close by. |
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I can't make sense out of debate for the sake of debate when more tangible and perceptible issues of our own lives are left unspoken of. |
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We can even make sense of such a coincidence in the case of events such as battles and headaches. |
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We will often give very liberal interpretations to vague or inconsistent claims about ourselves in order to make sense out of the claims. |
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Without the old winters, a lot of our seasonal poems, rhymes and novels don't make sense. |
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Understanding this can aid teachers and learners as they make sense of interpersonal conflict on the road to forming successful groups. |
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Also, we actually need more calories premenstrually, so it would make sense we might experience more cravings if we're short on energy. |
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Goodbye ethnocentrism, greetings to the common world we diversely live in and attempt to make sense of. |
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In the end, our garbology investigation made us realize that the 3 Rs really make sense! |
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The very sight of her roused such fond, nervous emotions and reassurance in him that he himself could hardly make sense of them. |
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For years he was literally on his feet as a roving reporter, plunged into regions of conflict or crisis to try to make sense of it all for us. |
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Whoever put them in that group probably hoped discretion and goodwill would make sense of an anomaly. |
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Please excuse any typos or anything that doesn't make sense as my brain is not functioning well. |
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The plot does not follow a straight path whereby all the loose ends are tied up and everything finally starts to make sense. |
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Play and creative expression are ways in which children cope with and try to make sense of their experiences and of the world. |
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Our ability to make sense of subtle auditory feedback cues will be a huge area of growth over the next few years. |
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For me, Ed helped to make sense of that too rarely cited tag end of Thomas's definition of our species, Animal rationale et risibile. |
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She believes that the lyrics of modern rock songs and rap music make sense. |
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It didn't make sense for the active lifestyle of a busy family with working parents and two teenage children. |
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However, my mind is still fuzzy, unable to make sense out of everything, just getting small glimpses and a feeling of fear and urgency. |
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Only in the critical combination of such different perspectives does it even make sense to speak of God's identity or sameness. |
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And in that way, a microwave, that can cook really fast, or a Crockpot, that really focuses the heat on the dish you're cooking can make sense. |
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Does this mad rush to abandon our natural sleep cycle to work around the clock really make sense? |
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It doesn't make sense without a baby, and the Christmas crib has no meaning without the Christ child. |
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In the water, I trust my own grip, although short-handled dip nets make sense in tournaments. |
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Radicalism and conservatism are merely two ways that one attempts to make sense of the world. |
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If too small of a target audience is identified, it doesn't make sense to move forward with production, unless you have a lot of money to waste. |
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It has long been an axiom that history is re-written by each generation in terms that make sense to it. |
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Once you start to apply this guiding principle, then a lot of Peel's seemingly baffling eclecticism begins to add up and make sense. |
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Does it make sense to give each of us a subsidy, when we can perfectly well afford the full price? |
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Now I love formalism, if it reaches sensible results, and if it rests on formal distinctions that make sense. |
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This could only make sense if it were true that some risks are simply off the scale of our everyday experience of danger. |
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This may still make sense for some but for many of us it just doesn't work any more. |
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I lay awake for hours that night trying to make sense of the evening's events. |
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I'm trying to make sense of what appears at first sight to be the decline of the online journal. |
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The US Defense Secretary was trying to make sense of early unconfirmed reports that fires were raging in the oil-rich fields in the south. |
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Although scientists have now successfully mapped the human genome, the next step is to make sense of it. |
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The problem with these etymologized words is that they seem to make sense yet one is easily misled. |
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If the marked semi-colon does not join two groups of words that would make sense as separate sentences, replace the semicolon with a comma. |
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It didn't take me long to find some hair stuff to straighten my hair and I gathered so many hair scrunchies it didn't make sense. |
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So your elevator pitch must be intriguing, make sense, be short and powerful, and should motivate someone into wanting to learn more. |
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He was like a thick-witted detective at a crime scene, unable to make sense of clues right before his eyes. |
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The complexity its admirers celebrated was usually generated in their own attempts to make sense of its opacities. |
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It's just a case of threading them together like beads on a string, whether they make sense or not. |
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The dull throb of joint pain and her increasing inability to make sense of the goings-on around her, kept her in one spot more and more. |
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Paese also said it didn't make sense to divest holdings of stocks because of a company's activities. |
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We must attend to social and cultural history in order to make sense of semantics. |
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And in the realm of equity jurisprudence, he is attuned to making the common law make sense. |
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Furthermore, does it actually make sense to use a timer in a multi-player game? |
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Lidgerwood violently flung the flap of the tent open, his groggy mind struggling to make sense of all this, trying to place him. |
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It does make sense the Vikings would have settled here because of the water. |
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He points out that remortgaging can make sense from an inheritance tax standpoint. |
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I had planned to write a review of the piece but it's pretty difficult to make sense of in words. |
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The key, however, is that on some level these different sounds must converge in the listener's mind and make sense together. |
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We are somewhere at the beginning of this stage right now, trying to make sense of strings of undecipherable information. |
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The first five factors intuitionally make sense to us, and the factor loadings connected to them are also strong. |
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They make sense for a relatively homogeneous, top-down digital library development program. |
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It just seems to make sense to take advantage of what's on offer at the moment and borrow it all for free. |
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There is a real sense of satisfaction as the pieces of the mystery start to fall into place and make sense. |
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Jim was desperately trying to make sense of the golden blur before him, trying to force the formless shapes to solidify, to identify themselves. |
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Tackling these big and controversial issues early in the third term would make sense. |
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To regain mutual understanding, we attempted to make sense of this misalignment in 37 and 38 and bring it back on track. |
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The delusions, the misinterpretations, cannot make sense of what is happening around them. |
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It does not make sense that animals that are on the verge of extinction are caught because of a minority of epicures. |
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Mathematical models are used to try to make sense of the data or predict their future values. |
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I also have a mondo cold right now, so if things don't make sense, that's why. |
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As we've discussed, fiber is an area where it might make sense for a single network that everyone has access to, since it's a natural monopoly. |
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She thought that maybe her mind was making the tone sound different so as to break the monotony but then the sounds began to make sense. |
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The screen would move in waves in front of my bleary eyes so I'd give up trying to make sense of the dancing letters after a few minutes. |
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There's a point where it doesn't make sense to make a corporation any bigger, folks. |
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One columnist who manages both to make sense of the situation and to wring some humor, however grim, out of it, is the gifted Diana West. |
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I have always been a bit slow on the uptake, and I just kept on looking at the board and waiting for it to make sense. |
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My brain is frantically muddling through, trying to make sense of what's happening to me. |
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However, as more client applications become multithreaded, dual-core processors will make sense in all product lines, he says. |
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We took our seats and tried to make sense of the frenzied activity and furious number-calling all around us. |
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There were no contextual clues to follow, and one could only try and make sense of the inscription. |
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Sweetening the pot within reason to keep it out of their hands does make sense. |
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They teach students to make sense of history as contemporary secular historians make sense of it. |
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If you maintain a bootable rescue disk, it may make sense to rethink the system components that should be on it. |
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Does it make sense to make a moral judgement on a deceitful person but not on a slow clock? |
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Unable to make sense of what was happening to them, they reacted tetchily and their play degenerated into niggling, scrappy attempts to win the ball. |
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He lies in an existential funk trying to make sense of it all. |
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For conventional households with two working parents, the alternative lifestyle can almost begin to make sense. |
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Outside the church service Friday night, Annette Cook stood with her daughters trying to make sense of what happened. |
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Maybe keeping someone like Bayard Rustin in the shadows seemed to make sense at the time, but no one can argue that now. |
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Liesl Schillinger to the rescue with a bevy of words that might help you make sense of it all. |
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Nonetheless, what we should do is to make a serious analytical effort to determine what overseas military commitments make sense and where we should pull in our horns. |
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By Christine Yu for Life by DailyBurn On the surface, it seems to make sense. |
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Slowly my addled mind managed to make sense of this phenomenon. |
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As the commentariat struggles to make sense of the ruling and its implications, The Daily Beast gathers the best takes. |
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Sure, they have children, and sure her feelings were conflicted but this did not make sense in the way it was written and played. |
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They were quickly able to make sense of how to use aikido for handling rough shoving tactics like what is seen in wrestling, sumo and at the beginning of many street fights. |
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Nancy threw her a wild look, trying to make sense of it all. |
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It's something of a rebus, though perhaps involving more associative skills than your average rebus and doesn't make sense except as a melding of personae. |
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So refraining from torture may not always make sense on a pragmatic basis. |
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As Jenks suggests, tying up with AirAsia would make sense as the most savvy business decision. |
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In all honesty, however, I think this is the essence of our attempts to understand and make sense of the complexities of the British and European royal houses. |
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Suddenly, her aloneness, the dress, the expensive vanilla-scented perfume, the strange drinks and the unfriendly looks from across the bar make sense. |
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The film looks at the pain of Easter Europe in the new millennium with humor and humanity, bringing a Lapp woman, a Russian and a Finn together to try to make sense of it all. |
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And does it make sense to renounce the world in search of eternal truth? |
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The necessary rewiring, replumbing and heating upgrades coupled with the age of the property suggest it would make sense to have all walls and ceilings replastered. |
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Fixing your rates on savings may make sense, as long as you can afford to lock your money away, because if commentators are correct returns have further to fall. |
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I would look at it later and make sense of it but, as for now, I had to get to my next lesson because the free period would probably be nearing an end. |
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We need people we can look up to in order to make sense of our own lives. |
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How are we to make sense of our shock and grief and loss in Phil's death? |
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It does not make sense, and Denmark, the world leader in this form of energy production, has now stopped its building programme and is actually taking the structures down. |
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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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Babbage, Herschel, Whewell, and Jones set out on massive projects to collect and make sense of vast data sets. |
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If it doesn't make sense or you are not satisfied with it, please tell me. |
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Cuts that make sense during discussions on Capitol Hill can seem callous in Hinesville. |
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The lyrics didn't always scan, but they always seemed to make sense. |
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Still, there are other places where, like trial juries, sortition make sense. |
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The procedure, says a spokesperson from the World Health Organization, doesn't even make sense. |
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Practise and soon you will find that you can spot the keywords instinctively and make sense out of them, and your reading speed increases manyfold. |
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Together these three witness numerous Vietnarn-esque barbarities, and the more they try to make sense of these brutalities and work toward peace, the more things go awry. |
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They picture specific and real fragments of the world, and in order to make sense of these images we suppress the materiality of whatever surface they are printed on. |
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Attempting to make sense of what happened, Joel finds a letter from her but refuses to open it for fear of shattering his ideal of the perfect life they shared. |
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It remains the case that most people are quite skeptical that we will ever make sense of the Euclidean path integral, especially in the semi-classical regime. |
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So it does not make sense to solve a toughie and impress the examiner. |
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Organize information in a way that it would make sense to algorithms. |
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The blondness as an attraction to black-haired Asians does make sense. |
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Does it make sense to, say, work overtime to save local green space when national policies create air so unbreathable it's unsafe to be outside on summer days? |
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Sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, and motion continually participate, though we may often be unconscious of them, in the ways we literally make sense of the world, and art. |
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I've scanned the document and it's choking with phrases like this, which presumably make sense in the heads of officials grappling unenviably with the programmes. |
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It would be bonkers for one council to act alone, but it would make sense if all three million people in Greater Manchester came to the same decision. |
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In an already highly urbanised society this doesn't make sense. |
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Sorry if it still doesn't make sense but it does to me, sorry! |
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He tried to concentrate on the words that were being spoken around him, but they seemed far away and he struggled to make sense of them as he prepared himself for the worst. |
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It is often said that the vocabulary of a language is an inventory of the items a culture talks about and has categorized in order to make sense of the world. |
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There's a quite effective twist ending where the identity of the real voodooist is revealed, even if this doesn't really make sense in terms of motivation. |
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We considered explanatory notes to be essential, to help the reader make sense of obscurities in the text and to see the quote in historical context. |
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Later, in the midcentury, as he put his hand to the defense of a new kind of sea science, he reached for the chronometer as a way to make sense of the oceans. |
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If you think you know how to do key management, but you don't have much confidence in your ability to design good ciphers, a one-time pad might make sense. |
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How do people make sense of the onrush without being submerged by it? |
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Trying to make sense of which way a woman will go is like herding cats. |
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Take orthodoxy away and the whole thing ceases to make sense. |
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In fact, in order to make sense of Aslan's victory it must be noted that he effectively deceives the witch and so outwits her in his return to life. |
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I know what I'm saying probably doesn't make sense, and I'll admit it, I have no idea how to cheer you up or comfort you, but I'm still going to try my best. |
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But Christology or soteriology or theodicy, Haught argues, will not make sense unless theology addresses the scientific description of the cosmos. |
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Somehow, though, when it's dark at four o'clock and there is the prospect of snow outside, the pavlova doesn't really make sense as a Christmas dessert. |
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So true was he to his own little light that many dismissed him as a crank and made little effort to penetrate his prose or make sense of his ideas. |
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So when you think about the wars, the famines, the strife, the terrors that we face on a daily basis doesn't it make sense to explore the benefits of cloning? |
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Does it make sense that some individuals would be more inclined towards a certain lifestyle if that lifestyle had fewer rules and more freedom of choice? |
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While these discourses appear to make sense, they in fact impart no information to the reader, who is left to marvel as the inscrutability of the cosmos. |
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The podgy man scratched his beard, trying to make sense of her questions. |
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The creedal formulations, with their concern to clarify and define, grew out of a need to make sense of an experience of God as Father, Son and Spirit. |
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Dangling participles occur where the first part of the sentence and the clause that follows just don't belong together, and therefore don't make sense. |
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Content should be glanceable and notifications should make sense. |
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Before these countries can be truly democratized they need to develop systems that make sense within their particular cultural and historical contexts. |
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She tried and failed to make sense of the screens detailing flight information and missed an announcement on the public address system calling her to the gate. |
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To make sense of the individual impact that each of us has on the environment, ecologists have come up with a measurement known as an ecological footprint. |
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It would be the cost effectiveness of the appliance and the energy efficiency of reforming or electrolyzing that will determine whether home refueling will make sense. |
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Marlow Wood, an American who has been embalming in Japan for the past five years, thinks that compared with the US, Japan's funeral practices make sense. |
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It's not supposed to make sense without some personal mental gymnastics. |
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It wouldn't make sense for a do-nothing to come up with the idea. |
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What would make sense is a Deutschmark bloc, with Germany and the Benelux countries, and the rest. |
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The set and lighting were basic but sufficient and some delightful costumery helped make sense of who was meant to be who. |
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They are desacralized by the process of repetition and make sense only in their own succession, in their own seriality. |
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The only way to make sense of this problem is to convert goods into the marginal utility per dollar you derive from consuming them. |
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As for what this letter says, in my opinion not even the Pythian god could make sense of it. |
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Essentially saying the theory of absolutes, or metaphysical realism, was unnecessary to make sense of the world. |
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Similarly, it also does not make sense to call the spin states of ortho and para hydrogen entangled. |
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And in the cloud-headed days that followed, he struggled to make sense of this. Perhaps he was dreaming. |
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If AIDS is fuelled by a chronic activation of the immune system, then it would make sense to immunosuppress these patients. |
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Algorithmic strategies were beginning to look as if they could make sense and meaning out of the vast swathes of hyperconnected documents. |
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Who, What, Why, When and Where are the five W's needed to make sense of any story. |
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This is a useful addition to the simplistic 'out of' feature since it helps us make sense of improper fractions like thirteen-tenths. |
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Sudhansu Dey, who studies embryo implantation at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, says the new results make sense. |
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Ethnomethodologists study how ordinary people make sense of their everyday activities. |
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But, as it is so well-done and well-acted, I'll enjoy trying to make sense of it all during the next four weeks. |
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Rabbinic religion was inescapably eschatological because the world in which rabbis lived could make sense to them on no other basis. |
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Nancy Grace, histrionically bloviating about massive amounts of dead peopleait all seems to make sense. |
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Poor old Rob must be birlin like a peerie trying to make sense of what all his gaffers are on about. |
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The links between wild honey, stringybark and other elements make sense to me, even if the manikay remain obscure. |
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Plus, clove hitches are used in seafaring, and with the docks being so important to the city, it just seemed to make sense. |
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To make sense of these challenges, Camero began looking at organizations that were building resilience in Stockton. |
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Tougher regulations on tank cars and oil-by-rail make sense. |
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No, I'm not. That would only make sense if the grid power were persistently unreliable, which it isn't. Nor am I using a suicide cable. |
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The associated strategies of colligation and periodisation are processes of categorising and ordering to make sense of disparate events, again primarily descriptive processes. |
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His answers are consistently off the mark. None of them quite make sense. |
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If you have some form of cardiovascular disease, it might make sense to occasionally take acetaminophen rather than an NSAID for a fever, headache or pulled muscle. |
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Scola tried teaching him context clues to help it make sense, to force him to go back and look at the beginnings of the words, but it was laborous. |
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The men were babbling, so we couldn't make sense of anything. |
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Those electrodes eavesdropped on individual nerve cells, or neurons, in the medial temporal lobe, a brain area known to help make sense of visual information. |
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It does not seem to make sense to speak of learning to telepathize. |
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For this to make sense, Americans need to believe terrorists can take over Omaha as easily as Nikita Khrushchev could have nuked the Miami Seven's backyard. |
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Writer David Nussbaum had the difficult task of extrapolating the recipes created during the tapings and organizing them into something that would make sense to the reader. |
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For new imports from Canada to make sense, they must displace dirty power here in New England, and there is no dirtier fuel in our energy mix than coal. |
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It maintains that only if we model rationalizers as pretenders can we make sense of the rationalizer's distinctive relationship to the evidence in his possession. |
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Arizona's ramada idea makes sense in almost any climate Simple structures, rustic or modern, that provide shelter from the sun, ramadas make sense in any climate. |
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It has operator safety devices that make sense and don't get in the way, such as electric eye sensors that are well protected and do their job well. |
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For the first couple of days after fledging, young birds often look pretty bewildered, perching themselves on a branch trying to make sense of the big wide world. |
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It would make sense that erratics would be religious sites to the first peoples on Alberta's landscape and stories of vandalism to ancient sites in this province are not new. |
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The dropleton is a quasiparticle, a theoretical construct that helps physicists make sense of the jungle of particles and forces within the materials we use every day. |
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