But is this not committing the fallacy of looking beyond the instrument, beyond the state of affairs at the date of execution of the instrument? |
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Yet, even though official statistics reveal this abysmal state of affairs, what is the Government's response? |
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His apparent indifference to the current state of affairs merely supports the view that it is time to wind it up. |
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One calendar year up to 31 December, 1996 was selected to show the pre-computerisation state of affairs. |
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Scholarly reactions to the Latinity of the Whitby text are symptomatic of this state of affairs. |
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This pithy aphorism graphically tells us the sad state of affairs on the roads of India. |
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Scottish rugby may still be a long way from this lamentable state of affairs but it could be argued that the warning signs are present. |
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The literary utterance too creates the state of affairs to which it refers, in several respects. |
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Brecht's words, juxtaposed against Weill's music, with its atonal harmonies and angular lines, venomously satirized the state of affairs. |
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While this may describe the current state of affairs for many malcontents, it's inconsistent with the 10 fire-starters that precede it. |
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But to date, no one has expressed the slightest interest in this scandalous state of affairs. |
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Your vagueness, however, is understandable given the present state of affairs for the mass of the population. |
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Selfishly speaking, I am almost tempted to let this state of affairs pass unremarked. |
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It is indeed a sorry state of affairs when Irish politicians resort to shooting the messenger when election results are not to their liking. |
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The new English Tudor dynasty was determined to end this state of affairs and impose modern centralized government across Ireland. |
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Is it a state of affairs where free speech is suppressed by the organs of the State? |
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Commentators who say that the political landscape changed dramatically in the past year are grossly understating the true state of affairs. |
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If Otley fails to support its own in their hour of need or joy then it is a disgraceful state of affairs. |
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The benign, old Munshi sums up the topic with a short, wry remark, a telling commentary on the state of affairs. |
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Suddenly frustrated by this state of affairs I leave drunkenly to head over to the next party. |
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I'm reminded of a haiku I wrote a couple of years back that I think might describe this state of affairs. |
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I don't want to travel by public transport as I don't feel safe, and that is a sorry state of affairs. |
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Sunderland's solicitor Clive Flynn described the case as a sad and sorry state of affairs. |
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A sorry state of affairs to say the least and a disaster for the promotion of the game. |
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This peculiar state of affairs led to the suggestion of a cannibal mythology as a feature of Western cosmology. |
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According to the information provided to the Court, there has been no case law to remedy this state of affairs. |
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The doctrines of the fall and original sin have offered explanations of this state of affairs, but they present some problems of their own. |
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In this state of affairs one wonders why such a regime is subsumed under the heading of democracy and not domination? |
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The final paragraph is, however, a good summation of the current state of affairs. |
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If a state of affairs is not Pareto efficient, then society is missing an opportunity costlessly to satisfy some people's preferences better. |
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In the latter, the syllogisms involved must have middle terms that are causes of the state of affairs which is to be demonstrated. |
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This state of affairs is very, very sad with many people hurting and, indeed, becoming disillusioned. |
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Some harsh economic facts, meanwhile, provide sufficient clues to the state of affairs. |
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It was in this state of affairs that the police committed excesses which strictly speaking were impermissible in law. |
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For some people such a situation might be unacceptable or even an impossible state of affairs. |
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In the inscrutable case, the overall truth about a state of affairs is not known by anyone. |
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And for pity's sake, do not tell me this state of affairs is unprecedented in history. |
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If today life without the possibility of progress seems insupportable, it is worth asking how this state of affairs has come about. |
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I use the word in its connotation of an unimpaired or uncorrupted state of affairs. |
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It is always important to remind ourselves who created this state of affairs in the first place. |
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But it is not my way to relax and be happy about this state of affairs, not when I can be formlessly anxious instead. |
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Ten years ago I would have said that this sad state of affairs was irremediable, at least for the immediate future. |
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Such a state of affairs has left many riders outraged at the lack of forethought put into the legalization of big bikes. |
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Researchers ascribe this strange state of affairs to dark energy, an entity that's the flip side of gravity. |
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The 2001 Election preserved this state of affairs, and has probably made Labour's first two terms much easier. |
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He discussed several issues regarding the prevailing state of affairs in our beloved country, Pakistan. |
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This determinateness of arrangement is the structure of a state of affairs. |
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I know that this state of affairs is not fully grasped by the general public in Europe and North America. |
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The internet may well be the only way we can communicate our frustration and discontent with the sad state of affairs we find ourselves in. |
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It's a sad state of affairs when you hear certain young kids on the bus discussing punk rock. |
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Some of the professors at a local university are distraught over the state of affairs here. |
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What we see speaks volumes on our degenerative state of affairs. |
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The other explanation is that the constitution became merely the vehicle for the people to register a wider and deeper discontent with the state of affairs in Europe. |
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It's difficult to comprehend the how and why of this state of affairs. |
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This state of affairs arises from a little known regulation called cabotage or the provision of commercial domestic air services within a country. |
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Why did I say it was alarming that this present state of affairs was not foreseen by the West? |
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The author, an intelligent woman and self-described formerly frigid wife, provides a long laundry list of explanations for this unhappy state of affairs. |
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It is a worse state of affairs when someone dies than it is when a person fails to come into existence, assuming that in both cases the lives would have been worth living. |
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It is a sad state of affairs when anglers board a charter boat and you know before they hook their first fish that they are going to have a problem with landing fish. |
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What is problematic in the views of market socialists is that they regard this state of affairs as intrinsically preferable to full-scale planning. |
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He also diagrams the road graph that gives rise to this state of affairs. |
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But a state of affairs where the group most subject to being singled out for violence is uniquely not protected by the law is a manifest injustice. |
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And we are under no illusion that this state of affairs is confined to one battalion. |
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The government has only itself to blame for this state of affairs. |
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However grand or private or idiosyncratic a state of affairs I have in mind, I can go on hoping for it in the only way that remains possible to me. |
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The reasons for this sorry state of affairs are not far to seek. |
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I trust that you're not too upset by this continuing state of affairs, and are managing to take your mind off it with other miscellaneous pursuits. |
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Is this state of affairs an acceptable result of a pluralistic liberal system, or is there something fundamentally illiberal about American politics today? |
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All wars are set off by actions taken by a Reactionary Power who is dissatisfied with the existing status quo, a state of affairs which suits the status quo power. |
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This state of affairs has been an open secret for some time in Turkey and is now being more or less openly admitted by the media and many well-known politicians. |
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Ultimately, a state of affairs in which the top 10 percent monopolize the lion's share of society's resources is incompatible with democratic forms of rule. |
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As war clouds gather in the hellish heat of summer, and the Kashmir tragedy continues to unfold, it is worth pondering the state of affairs we find ourselves in. |
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If this is the state of affairs after the country's fervent embrace of capitalism in 1989, one can only imagine the grimness that prevailed under Soviet rule. |
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They also counted on exploiting Honduras's parlous state of affairs among frightened voters. |
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This state of affairs can be achieved by reading the trade papers for a couple of years, and by reading some of the books mentioned in the references section of this essay. |
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Aside from the problem of alcoholism, the violence and fighting associated with drinking binges is almost a normal state of affairs in many areas. |
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An initial opinion regarding a commensurably universal state of affairs is potentially scientific knowledge of the very same state of affairs. |
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Thus they consolidated the state of affairs whereby monarchs would call and close parliament as and when they needed it. |
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Chesterton's fence is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood. |
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After his victory King Sverre placed Shetland under direct Norwegian rule, a state of affairs that continued for nearly two centuries. |
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. |
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This was the state of affairs when Philip launched his campaign of 1198 with an attack on Vexin. |
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He went forward himself to observe the state of affairs and, finding himself under fire, suffered a heart attack and died. |
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We are displeased at the disturbed state of affairs in Florence, the more so in that it owes its origin to your preaching. |
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The prime directive of Austrian policy was the preservation of this state of affairs. |
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All that can truly be said, without exception, is that a crime requires some external state of affairs that can be categorized as criminal. |
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Locals would speak sorrowfully about the state of affairs, often while nursing their sole plate of sadza for the day. |
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His uncooperative attitude creates a difficult state of affairs for all of us. |
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And that this state of affairs is not just the way things are. |
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This state of affairs enhanced the empire's security and created a certain wriggle room for the policy-makers in Berlin. |
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This state of affairs is a source of befuddlement to Walmart executives. |
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I am not sure whether a similar state of affairs exists in former British colonies, with UK financial institutions dominating Anglophone Africa. |
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What brought about this curious state of affairs is my recent marriage to a Barbadian, or Bajan as 'we' like to call ourselves. |
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Where is the moral compass and common humanity that accepts this state of affairs? |
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The domains do not necessarily reflect the state of affairs perceived by an interactant. |
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This state of affairs is crying out for an independent investigation. |
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Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom. |
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This state of affairs led some Chartists to question the very idea of a state sponsored church, leading them to call for an absolute separation of church and state. |
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If the Court grants that relief, the plaintiff will then seek a preliminary injunction to maintain the current state of affairs until a trial can take place. |
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Huntington believed that while the age of ideology had ended, the world had reverted only to a normal state of affairs characterized by cultural conflict. |
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The use of the term Empire has engendered controversy among some historians, over whether the term is accurate for the actual state of affairs at the time. |
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