Yet it's clear he was steeped in political minutiae and imposed few limits on what he was willing to do to get the job done. |
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In the unrelenting drizzle of budget minutiae about enterprise allowance credits and reliefs, here was a clean and simple New Idea. |
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But then you could spend decades of your life here without fully grasping the complex minutiae of the Malagasy existence. |
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I apologize to any readers who spent valuable minutes reading limitless minutiae about my mundane existence. |
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Bick spends too much time on the minutiae of the ride itself and at times strains to be didactic, which is unnecessary with such a good story. |
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Perhaps the outstanding characteristic of Aficionado is its almost massive minutiae about everything tauromachian. |
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More important to him are the minutiae of his footnotes, the precision of his research and the translations of documents. |
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Unless you have an obsessive interest in the minutiae of American politics, it is unlikely that you will have heard of Mr Shrum. |
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Lots of it is just minutiae, but now and then there's something pretty big. |
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But he has difficulty letting go of interesting cultural minutiae and fails to keep the story moving along. |
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Most of us have been too caught up in the everyday minutiae to be bothered. |
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I can't stand listening to those politico smart-asses with their machine-gun delivery of sleep-inducing minutiae of political maneuvering. |
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I have a disturbing fascination with minutiae, general knowledge, pointless facts and other trivia. |
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He added it was only possible to iron out the minutiae of the details once the centre was open. |
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Six months in jail would certainly remind those handling the minutiae of our lives that what's private should stay that way. |
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He has now produced another massive and lavishly illustrated volume of the minutiae of the club, called Everygame, and, by jings he means it. |
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Today's businesses are managed by individuals who are obsessed with the minutiae of manipulating financial accounts. |
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To be fair, I know a fair amount of minutiae about a lot of things, being a trivia magnet. |
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Some of the minutiae he examines would, in the hands of another author, make for somewhat dry reading. |
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It is packed with fascinating minutiae, and yet it is curiously lacking in some details. |
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The minutiae of meetings remains private, but the general gist is that it was a problem and it has been addressed. |
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Yet whenever the reader begins to tire of historical minutiae, the author throws in charming tidbits of bibliophilic lore. |
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They could pass as marginalia, ephemera or mere daily-life minutiae unworthy of serious attention. |
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The fact is that he had a huge capacity for understanding the minutiae of problems without effort so he did not need to strain himself. |
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Unless you understand the minutiae of the series, Star Trek games can be unapproachably complex. |
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Cooper's constant references to research show that, like her husband and his boss, she is a policy wonk obsessed with the minutiae of people's lives. |
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Never before has there been so much of interest in the minutiae. |
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The minutiae recorded and cataloged by the historian serve as signposts that guide him through the maze of historical events and provide a means of testing out his hypotheses. |
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If these minutiae are similar in the comparison print these are points of agreement, if not these are distinct dissimilarities. |
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Collectively, these details are referred to as minutiae — an average human fingerprint may contain as many as a hundred and fifty minutia points. |
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Most restrict themselves to the minutiae of local issues. The PRI still has a reputation for corruption and skulduggery. |
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We always use special pleading about the minutiae as an intellectual fig leaf to avoid the tough decisions. |
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Despite this, we trust both media to be the repositories of our cultures, to store the minutiae, the details and experiences that define our milieu. |
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The smallest of the three angles formed by the rays is bisected to indicate the minutiae direction. |
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Elsewhere in America, and in Europe, investors are obsessed by the minutiae of business plans, however nebulous their end-products. |
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Instead, we are mired in the minutiae when we should be pushing the agenda forward, making a real difference for Canadians. |
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For the political message is that we want to give the candidates for accession a warm welcome without entangling them in bureaucratic minutiae! |
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Meanwhile, her lyrics moved away from detailing the minutiae of everyday life and entered a more abstract realm. |
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Later, we can focus on the minutiae of procedure, such as who raised their flags first and so on. |
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Its norm-making capacity is often squandered on debates about minutiae or thematic topics outpaced by real-world events. |
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Type and location of the minutiae can be very similar and relate strongly to the given pattern. |
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It is also difficult to extract the minutiae points accurately when the fingerprint has got a low quality. |
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Over a five day span we listened to lectures from 9 in the morning until 8 at night covering every minutiae of glial biology. |
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These minutiae points are represented by a cloud of dots in a coordinate system. |
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And how can the permanent representative be aware of who is doing what without being overwhelmed with minutiae? |
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For most of his career at the top of rugby he left the minutiae of coaching to others, and only began to tout his tactical influence when his team started winning. |
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But Andy didn't just do cool little comics, he was also something of an academic, holding forth in debates about the origins and minutiae of comic strip art. |
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They're self-taught experts in the minutiae of day-to-day medieval life, tracking down recipes, studying forgotten languages, practising metalwork or sewing. |
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So much of my day is taken up with triviality, frustration, and minutiae! |
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Trekkies are defensive about the minutiae of their sacred source material, sometimes to the point of pretension. |
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Yet rather than myopically focus on the particular minutiae of the current circumstances, we ought to pay special attention to those central issues that underpin the current crisis, past crises and future crises. |
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The fifth information item is the minutiae type. |
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And in others, central ministries of education may be virtually allpowerful, controlling most things right down to the minutiae of educational policy and implementation. |
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Although he was at times criticized for a tendency to get bogged down by administrative minutiae, Colonel Ralston was a good judge of the valour of his superior officers. |
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The things we don't see inside ourselves, the minutiae. |
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The first information item is the minutiae index number, which shall be initialised to '1' and incremented by '1' for each additional minutia in the fingerprint. |
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The angle of the minutiae is determined by constructing three virtual rays originating at the bifurcation point and extending to the end of each leg. |
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Indeed, many of them have such a focus on formational minutiae you feel that at any moment they may demand to know how many wing-backs can shuttle run on the head of a pin. |
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As a result, actions and decisions can become less transparent, because the really important, effective, and relevant information gets lost in the minutiae. |
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After Mr. Thomas wound up on the Ways and Means health subcommittee, he immersed himself in Medicare minutiae for two years, rising at 4 a.m. to crack the books. |
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Today, people are posting and broadcasting the minutiae of their their daily lives, keeping friends and colleagues probably more up-to-date than they would like to be. |
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Here in the country of Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, with its ambitious view of the European Union's role in the world, I should like to go beyond the minutiae of institutional considerations. |
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Danielle Grée gives us a glimpse into the minutiae of recruitment, the unexpected headaches of the consultant interpreter who is asked to set up a team of interpreters at the last minute. |
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The sixth information item represents the quality of each minutiae. |
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Its chief executive, Jack Welch, felt that the department's 200 or more senior executives were too involved with financial minutiae and not enough with new businesses and visionary markets. |
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Victoria took a close interest in the details of how Windsor Castle was run, including the minutiae of the social events. |
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I send you back the two last sheets, because you bid me. I reserve my nibblings and minutiae for another day. |
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But what makes Fat Lace truly British is its trainspotterish obsession with hip-hop minutiae. |
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Analytic philosophy can be pedantic and boring, even technocratic in its hair-splitting attention to logical minutiae. |
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The author delves into patronising government propaganda, domestic minutiae and statistics, including shocking figures of illegitimate wartime births. |
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But their niggling objections typically focus on minutiae such as expensed lunches and photocopying costs, and are mostly overruled by the judges, says one bankruptcy lawyer. |
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A '2' indicates that for each centre minutiae, ridge count data was extracted to the nearest neighbouring minutiae in eight octants, and ridge counts for each centre minutia are listed together. |
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To be perceived as scholarly is to pile on the well-researched minutiae, and to lavish on readers a discursion of prior scholarship despite ample coverage in other articles. |
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It deals in complex financial derivatives and picking your way through the minutiae of their contracts is more suited to a Philadelphia lawyer armed with a fine toothed comb. |
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Too often is the college graduate a solecist through her ignorance of the customs and usages of that class whose life is made up of the minutiae of politeness. |
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But NIST did not settle on a biometric technology until last December, when it announced that PIV cards must use fingerprint minutiae as the biometric standard. |
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Predictably the seminarians' lives are littered with the minutiae of modern life, and at times Englert gets bogged down in recounting the prosaic details. |
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Furthermore, she has researched carefully into the details and minutiae of the activities and decision-making of the five governors general of that thirty-one-year period. |
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They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress. |
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Minutiae over latitude degrees paled in insignificance with the excitement of the new discoveries revealed in the letters. |
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