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Adjudicating misconduct on this model calls on rigid legal standards rather than the less explicit and loftier standards of trustworthiness proclaimed by the profession.
We have never known a data user to fail to ascribe the loftiest of plausible purposes.
In other words, there is so much detail here that readers can make their own judgements about loftier questions.
The nave is of later style, loftier, and with grouped, shafted piers and moulded capitals.
Through its rhythmic fashioning, poetry will bring about the ultimate "ascent of man," the "loftier raptures, loftier pain" by which humankind will realize its place in the world.
The actual prose in which some of the loftier elements of this perspective are conveyed, however, is a good deal more grandiloquent than we can today happily stomach.
Unwilling to concede to the loftier positions acquired by parliament's followers, much less their assumption of the right to levy penalties, royalists fought back with lawsuits.
He stuck to dealing with modern manners, which are no subject for lofty treatment.
The church has lofty western towers, also a tall nave and choir.
All are lofty with high vaults supported by flying buttress schemes.
The vaulting is ribbed throughout, lofty and well-proportioned.
The nave is lofty and divided into nave arcade, triforium and clerestory.
Why haunt the world and seek a lofty seat?
Of set purpose it avoids the loftier flights of mysticism and all abstruse speculation.
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At this lofty sentiment, however, biographical accountancy can restrain itself no longer.
Crossing the threshold brings you into a lofty hall articulated by tall brick and blockwork piers.
Having emphasized the lofty nature of his experiments, when it failed, the people and the press viciously took him to task.
The ridges never attain the height of the loftiest peaks of the highlands to the east and west.
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However, it goes without saying that there was a significant gulf between these lofty ideals and more mundane realities.
During the discussion which took place, much loftier ideals were expressed than the mere formulation of plans for asserting sophomore honor.
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Unfortunately, a relatively generic gameplay outing and its emphasis on auto-acceleration controls keep the game from reaching loftier heights.
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At this point many readers of this journal may be wondering what all this lofty (lowly?) discourse has to do with medical ethics.
Seekers of longevity must first rectify and bring order to their own person before achieving loftier ambitions.
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Of course, the technical ability of the soprano was not the only defining characteristic of her lofty status.
Their lofty voices found visual expression in the spectacular illumination of the office.
Whatever the lofty goals of one's journey may be, one must first successfully navigate through the door of one's house.
Instead, this vision of rationality is usually presented as a lofty ideal that human reasoning should aspire to.
Inside, this enlarged side of the space is cleared to create a grand lofty reading hall.
Unless we already have the concept of law application, we cannot derive it from some lofty political ideal like democracy.
They have been given lofty tasks, but few powers and resources.
A corollary of this attitude towards government was a lofty and detached view of the relationship between a prime minister and his party.
The writings with which this essay has been concerned are anomalous in terms of the distinction between more or less lofty sorts of thought.
In its wide extension, even at the present time, we also see the best guarantee of a still loftier evolution of our race.
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Perhaps the next edition will achieve this lofty goal.
Small successes in existing venues might actually spur an advocacy group or policy entrepreneur to pursue more lofty goals in alternative venues.
Applying this idea to the context of planning, new social programmes and legal measures helped to ground the lofty promises of state leaders.
The western temple, loftier than the eastern one, is about 15m high over the square sanctum.
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There are, however, many passages in his sermons in which he rises to loftier thought and uses more dignified language.
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He refitted her entirely, with a loftier rig for the southern climes.
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Even team spirit, no matter how lofty its intent, cannot overcome this hurdle.
On the contrary, local powerbrokers found that democratic processes propelled them towards lofty connections and into wider arenas of politics.
They did not shape policy, they merely described it in lofty terms.
In large measure, these were impossible requirements, a set of lofty ideals that absorbed chance at the expense of signification.
The lofty goodness towards his fellow men which is proper to him becomes possible only when he has reached his height and rules.
Many publications tended to be conservationist and 'foundationalist' in terms of the lofty place ascribed to nature.
However, there is another alternative that could approach this lofty goal: conscription of all usable cadaveric organs.
Second, with time, leadership structures can become entrenched transforming the original lofty goals into justifications for selfserving petty bosses.
In particular the <13-year-olds, the 17- to 19-year-olds and the 20to 29-year-old females have lofty rates of really in comparison to the males.
Like quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, they were considered somewhat lofty, not the solid business of the ordinary nuclear researcher as understood by the contemporary no-joke type of physicist.
The remaining seven sides now contain lofty niches of sub-rectangular plan belonging to the remodelling of c. 1300; the niches have pointed arches internally and traceried windows externally.
The result was that physical infrastructure as well as human experience - the critical ingredient that the symposium was trying to recapture - dissolved into academic abstractions and lofty principles.
In her new 30-minute concerto she appears to have combined this lofty ideal with the irrevocably sombre tone of her religious temperament and some unique sonic experimentation.
A dome rises in the center, fronted by two smaller twisting and leaning cupolas, while a secondary dome, broader and loftier than the central one, springs from the annex.
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In many ways they served simply as a tool for publishing information instead of the loftier goals of integrating legacy applications or presenting correlated data from distributed databases.
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How lofty human pride is!
He believed that a part of the artist's mission was to foreground epiphanies, looking for them not in lofty themes and subjects but in casual and commonplace events.
The goals of the local office were loftier than the actual facility: to eliminate impediments to navigation in the region's rivers and to obtain a precise knowledge of the territory.
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Laws are lofty targets out of reach by most of us. shepard created a law imposing order on one of the oldest problems in experimental psychology.
Her demeanour was as lofty as any and her speech almost rose into blank verse at times; and he began to think that she had missed her vocation in life.
In his letters to her, he never flinches from this lofty position, constructing and maintaining an emotional moat between the two of them that he thought for the best.
Although we acknowledge that creating a common platform to test implementations is a lofty goal, it may be necessary to convince others of the true value of an algorithm's implementation.
Lofty intention is one thing, practice another, as we shall see.
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They are far too lofty, too expensive to heat, etc.
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We must translate lofty sentiments into a practical application which will benefit the nation.
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They look with lofty superiority upon the ordinary workers.
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Therefore, to take a pay-load such as described, across lofty mountain ranges, would require a ship of 35,000,000 cubic feet displacement.
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They have put themselves on a lofty pedestal, from which they look down on the publicans and sinners in the world beneath them.
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We should always be guided by good commonsense considerations, and not, in all cases, by an appeal to some lofty principle.
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I do not accept for one instant the somewhat lofty proposals which are put forward as the motives for this set of amendments.
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I like to think that sometimes those interests are not incompatible with the lofty ideals that we sometimes hold.
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The first is his lofty contempt for his creditors.
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I wish that he would not take that rather patronising, lofty tone.
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No doubt he was looking down on them from the lofty heights of a member of the upper middle classes.
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Unfortunately, however, there is a discrepancy in the timing, if not a paradox, in the announcement of this lofty policy.
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We believe that compromise, when it is lofty and honourable, forms the foundation of politics.
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The room is so lame and lofty that it is almost impossible to hear across it.
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I had many lofty aspirations about what the council should or should not do.
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Their ideals are lofty and so are their programmes.
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He ended by taking a lofty moral line and spoke of considering the public interest when he declined to publish this book.
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In the new building the basement will be lofty, with good natural ventilation and light.
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We do not ordinarily go in for legislation containing lofty sentiments, very often couched in woolly terms.
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Why has such a lofty position been chosen, where this beautiful statue cannot be seen?
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On a less lofty plane, the institution and financing of a new quango is not in itself an attractive proposition today.
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I had hoped to catch her before she sat down from her lofty vantage point.
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Let our ideals be as lofty as possible but let us temper our moral purpose and our ideals with realism.
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However, these lofty ideals are very difficult to translate into practice for two reasons.
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Today, even by his own high standards, he has exceeded his usual lofty cruising altitude.
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We are certainly not, as was suggested, complacent, lofty or dismissive of the report.
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Indeed, with lofty disdain he said that he hoped none of us would waste our time on it.
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Although we heard some lofty disdain, we heard no serious criticism of the system.
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The lofty goals proclaimed by the authors of the directive will be used as a pretext for the establishment of a database.
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Despite countless lofty announcements, there is as yet no real evidence of a fresh start.
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Why advance lofty aims when we already know that we shall not have the money to fund them?
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The most important aspect of the problem is to try to prevent the scientists from adopting the lofty attitude that they know all the answers.
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Despite the lofty aim of promoting the status of women, there is little evidence that it is being achieved.
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