Style and image is everything when you're trying to sell something as nebulous as an idea. |
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The concept of an elementary particle becomes a little nebulous in such circumstances. |
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His sculptures and etchings on this theme straddle a nebulous elegance, somewhere between abstraction and technical drawing. |
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Of course, this risks the subordination of personal freedom to some nebulous concept of public good. |
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Betke was better off when he was digesting found sounds into something murky and nebulous. |
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I've always wondered why we use a plural pronoun to refer to a third, rather nebulous, individual. |
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The billions of years believed necessary for the earth to evolve from some nebulous mass simply evaporate when confronted by such evidence. |
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Twenty five years ago, the nebulous gas entombing the dying star at the centre was not hot enough to glow. |
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For 130 miles we plowed through this nebulous and speculative world, peopling it, unpeopling it, fiddling like gods with its probable geology. |
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By night, strange, murky, shady, characters emerge from the indistinct, nebulous corners. |
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The Pleiades is a nebulous cluster of stars, all contained within one degree of longitude, located on the shoulder of the Bull. |
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Shapley noted that nebulous objects tended to be everywhere except in the Milky Way plane. |
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Yet there are dinosaurs who take a dim view of such a plan, their highly specious argument revolving around the nebulous concept of loyalty. |
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So, if we accept that religion doesn't govern civil marriage and that civil marriage changes over time, we are left with a more nebulous worry. |
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I assume that nebulous economic term indicates it's some form of slush fund for the pollies to spend at their discretion. |
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Most irritating of all, I'm finding that my brain is absolutely unable to cope with vague, nebulous concepts or ideas. |
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No doubt there'll be some spurious, nebulous rhetoric about rights and responsibilities, respect, choice and other such middle class emollients. |
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This is the first in a series that explores the nebulous connection between modern art and cartooning. |
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Why do you think scientists have been reluctant to grapple with this nebulous notion of the human mind? |
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The second point, my Lord, is that merely being offered some nebulous assurance at this stage provides absolutely no comfort whatsoever. |
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Ultimately, it's not politics that makes the world go round but generosity, but for a lot of people that's a very nebulous concept. |
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We read Foucault, who proposed that we were all subject to an authority so nebulous as to be undefeatable. |
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Yet dark energy is a nebulous concept, one that has thus far flummoxed some of the smartest researchers on the planet. |
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Discretion is a nebulous thing, each case is different and what we are saying is that the HSE doesn't appear to look at cases individually. |
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He nimbly steers his magic carpet through the nebulous and confusing post-modern clouds of the internet. |
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Symptomatic, some would say, of the nebulous world of the continent's football, where administrative chaos and indiscipline are rife. |
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The judges felt the Entitlement card idea was just too stupid, woolly and nebulous to win. |
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Where others in this vein opt for a hazy, nebulous cloud of half-remembered dreams, Manitoba's music is direct and unassuming while still remaining evocative. |
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Accountability for other global governance agencies is weaker, and accountability to the leaders' peers is nebulous. |
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It has few distinguishable stars and is mainly notable for a nebulous, cloud-like cluster which ancient astronomers regarded as an area where energies were dissipated. |
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At the same time, the term is so nebulous that many consumers may not be fully aware of what cloud computing actually is. |
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There is no body, there is no weapon, and unlike a drop of blood, the clues are as nebulous as the thoughts and intentions of men. |
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The term, which is nebulous and unregulated, can apply to any wine made without very few winery manipulations. |
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The third major problem with the challenge as it stands depends on people making a voluntary sacrifice towards a nebulous and ill-defined common cause. |
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For nebulous, ambiguous speculation, nothing comes close to this work. |
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Nowadays they want something far more nebulous, which is celebrity. |
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Rather, there are nebulous decrees that can potentially be enforced by the Thai authorities. |
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Mountstuart's flimsiness as a novelistic character is supposed to make the book more realistic by acknowledging that personality is nebulous in itself. |
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Within Hinduism, such affiliations tend to be rather loose, nonexclusive, and nebulous. |
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Even in normal circumstances, identity is a fragile, nebulous thing. |
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With Kamban, perhaps for the last time in the cycle of Indian Rama stories, Rama occasionally straddles the nebulous twilight zone between epic hero and infallible deity. |
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But I am wondering how it is that the official opposition has decided, for somewhat nebulous reasons and on principle, to change sides. |
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Only by throwing our nebulous notions into some sort of understandable language within our minds can we avoid sloppy thinking. |
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There are some hard and fast rules, such as an 18-character limit, but also some more nebulous ones about vulgarity and inappropriateness. |
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Whenever we get into nebulous descriptions there is the potential to use what I refer to as weasel words to benefit perhaps the governing party. |
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Both the advocates and adversaries of political nomination played a nebulous numbers game in describing the extent of the practice. |
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But if these savings were always pretty nebulous, and if no one seemed to be keeping track of them, the delay might appear unimportant. |
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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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Developing the right incentives is usually far more important than quantifying nebulous economic values of biodiversity. |
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Besides these identifiable building-related illnesses, poor indoor air quality can also result in the more nebulous symptoms of sick building syndrome. |
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He is adamant that this week he wants us to take immediate actions and clearly report what we see and do, rather than just speculate and make nebulous plans for the future. |
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A thick, nebulous haze, caused by the manufacturing process, pervaded everywhere, revealing sparks and the blindingly bright radiance of welding from time to time. |
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That all too often the citizens see Europe as some nebulous abstraction, with no bearing on their daily concerns. |
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Some jurisdictions argued that the federal vision on legal aid remains nebulous. |
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There will be more in future days, but these are specific concrete proposals that we are not shy to put on the record, in contrast to the rather nebulous plans of the government on the opposite side. |
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He expressed grave suspicions of adjectives, nebulous terminology, and all language that might be subjective. |
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Feinstein divagates in the engaging, informal tone of post-show chitchat, often repeating himself as he skitters from topic to topic, and couching his thoughts in the nebulous stock phrases of show-business conversation. |
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This, in turn, impacts on the ability of regional representatives to professionally interact with regional clients as their knowledge of the status of the project remains nebulous. |
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It avoids the problems of training and development programs that at their worst are nothing more than a placebo or nebulous experience with fuzzy outcomes of little importance to the Association. |
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This multiple star system must have been included in the NGC because of its appearance at low power this group is nebulous. |
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Cross-disciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary... the terms are often used rather nebulously in the admittedly nebulous field of live art. |
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But greater dangers lurk in the sinister and nebulous figure of the Prince of Mist, who wreaks revenge for old grievances through Max, his sisters and his new-found friend. |
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Indeed, that's precisely what the nebulous term «sustainable development» means: to concretize issues that matter using positive and negative examples. |
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When we want to build relationships, it is not only with a nebulous nation state, it is not only with a broad Congress and a broad Senate, it is also between two leaders who share a common set of values. |
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As we deplete mining resources, mining operations must go further into the outlands of the various countries in which they operate where no doubt the situation is even more nebulous and hard to monitor. |
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It is more than true to say that persons with disabilities have come a long way since Jean Chretien advised them that their rights were too nebulous and undefinable to be included in Canada's Constitution. |
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This advice sounds irritatingly nebulous, but he's done something that worked, in a very short time: from the yes campaign, the SNP got this surge in membership, and with it, political ambition. |
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But no, we mustn't fall into the old traps, because the more insistent these allegations become, the more revelatory the establishment is getting about Prince Andrew's efficacy in his deceptively nebulous role. |
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It is their nebulous, unstructured characteristics, combined with zealous dedication, which contribute in large measure to the menace they present. |
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This work was written in order to discover the true intentions that lie behind this juridical gibberish, and above all to help the inventor understand the nebulous intricacies of this semantic mystification. |
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It was easy to forget the political reality, but later, after they showed me what was left of old Minsk – a handful of buildings survived the war – a nebulous political fear descended on me. |
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Kublai's Chinese advisers still wielded significant power in the government, but their official rank was nebulous. |
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It is also unfortunate that the conciliation procedure with the Council entailed negotiations involving millions of euros, at a time when billions had been promised in a nebulous crisis package. |
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But the broader impact of the introduction of competition law and policy on development, poverty reduction and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals is more nebulous. |
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You avoid the panic of making hasty decisions with nebulous data. |
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Change in police organizations in Canada must take into consideration both the management dimension, as well as, the more nebulous and persistent, cultural imperatives. |
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This more nebulous work incentive concern will come to the fore where the payor is working in the paid labour market and the recipient is not, especially under the without child support formula. |
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This somewhat nebulous claim has been the favorite apophthegm of natural law theorists. |
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In contrast, the nebulous nature of ostensible discarnate communication calls for corroborative evidence that contact has been established. |
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However, the nebulous definition of a church has led to abuses which earned the corporation sole a place on the 2005 IRS Dirty Dozen tax scam list. |
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The term is often distinguished from didactic literature such as fables, but its relationship with other traditional stories, such as legends and folktales, is more nebulous. |
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Pitt's Act was deemed a failure because it quickly became apparent that the boundaries between government control and the company's powers were nebulous and highly subjective. |
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