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Nevertheless, it everywhere reminds us that patriotism is a peculiarly intractable theme for a left-winger to tackle.
Twain is a peculiarly appropriate candidate for this sort of consideration.
Certainly the subject, sought from within a particular conscious episode, is peculiarly recessive.
A necessary first step in any evolutionary analysis is the identification of what is peculiarly human, for this allows correct focus of the undertaking.
The ideas of" town" and" country" are peculiarly strong and seductive.
Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves.
Patients so situated are peculiarly vulnerable, however, and require additional protection.
At this point, however, it must be asked whether there is a peculiarly legal problem of content.
He commented that the tropical lowlands hold a peculiarly invisible status in the country's social, academic, and national thought.
All that can be generally asserted is that the use of nationality as a significant source of political identity is peculiarly modern.
The mountains and valleys, whether surrounding the northern slate quarries, the rural hill farms, or the industrialized south, generated a peculiarly intense environment.
The potential threat of murine schistosomiasis has tended to be regarded as a peculiarly guadaloupean problem with little relevance for control programmes elsewhere.
On its face, postal policy appears to be an area of public policy peculiarly well suited for congressional control.
He would, for a start, immediately recognize an attempt to grasp the nature of civic decency under peculiarly modern duress.
In 1543 an earth-centered cosmos was the physical orthodoxy of the day, supported by philosophical arguments that, at the time, were peculiarly compelling.
Taken together, they remind us of the extent to which ' leadership ' has been a peculiarly problematic concept for the party.
A penance which hypothecated payments for the upkeep of paupers or priests was imaginative and peculiarly appropriate in the fight against heresy.
To designate this anonymity as a peculiarly honest sort of aesthetic, however, betrays the desire for life and art to merge into one.
Much research has focused upon the ways in which middle-class women drew upon a peculiarly feminine identity in their political activities.
Such an arrangement, with its elements of exile and the uncertainty of contrition, was peculiarly appropriate for heretics.
Between these two bookends, the music for the ballet remains peculiarly vacant.
Under the conditions of slavery a peculiarly loose family system developed and still persists.
Such an account is peculiarly hard to doubt.
The literary class was peculiarly placed with respect to inheritance and nepotism.
What is it about our genome that makes us peculiarly human ?
The logic suggested here is that the first milk was peculiarly potent and thus needed to be treated carefully.
The great mass of economic literature by 1760 was, to this peculiarly wellinformed onlooker, in a sense also a great mess.
The party's celebration of instinct and feelings was peculiarly suited to the emotional needs of a traumatized nation.
Clearly the author's intention is not to explain in economic, sociological, psychological, or political terms why people accede to peculiarly "fundamentalist" beliefs.
On the other hand, the body of knowledge is peculiarly stable.
The disease was known to be transmissible to man, and is peculiarly unpleasant and swiftly fatal in its acute form.
The focus of crime reportage continued to be upon violent crime, and stories of particularly brutal or cruel criminal acts remained peculiarly newsworthy.
Whatever these conditions are, they are peculiarly attractive to females at full term.
Another difficulty is that many notions of fairness entail a peculiarly selective perspective and thus ignore seemingly pertinent aspects of a problem.
By nature such creatures were predisposed (possibly, even, predetermined) to incline towards evil, and this inclination made them peculiarly susceptible to the blandishments of tyrants.
Today, seeing and thinking appear peculiarly divided.
I suggest "model" because the dynamics of postal reform intimate a peculiarly twentieth-century pattern of institutional change: state building through bureaucratic entrepreneurship, founded upon multiple, diverse network affiliations.
Accretion of the constable's powers to interfere with individual rights in the interest of controlling crime make the procedures for dealing with public grievances peculiarly problematic.
Dramatically, their evaluation as heroic, mockheroic or pale imitation of heroic depends heavily on the status of the character: a peculiarly difficult thing to assess today (see below).
The practice of grafting is peculiarly located in this area since it creates pieces that are not just intertextual but which contain a surface recognition of intertextuality.
The argument for language as a metamodule that integrates information across cognitive domains assumes that peculiarly human conceptual capacities of categorization, reference, and reasoning are domain-specific, or modular.
The first was indirect and peculiarly contingent.
My quarrel is not with the claim that naturalization is a subspecies of ideology, nor with the claim that it is often a peculiarly potent form of ideology.
He admires the scene in which a mermaid smiles peculiarly as she takes hold of the sinking body of a naked young man who plummets to the sea-bed.
The conversation of some of the more thoughtful among them seemed oftentimes, owing to his long and persistent preparation for this place, to be peculiarly akin to his own thoughts.
In general, the impulse to explain blunts the perception of multiplicity or ambiguity, and the poems emerge in a peculiarly flattened form from this kind of thesis-driven analysis.
Given the complexities of prints - both verbal and visual - works that discuss them are peculiarly dependent upon the quality of illustrations if readers are to appreciate precisely how they work.
There is a peculiarly strong sense of responsibility in the armed services, and that will mean that the scheme may cost a bit more.
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Insulting words will be peculiarly a risk and hazard to which unpolished, uneducated and relatively illiterate people will be exposed.
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In the fifth, the matter is peculiarly within the knowledge of the respondent, and the onus in that issue should be on the respondent.
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How do we cope with the vast problems we face, which are peculiarly capital problems?
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Because of their isolation from viruses in their previous life the islanders are as yet peculiarly susceptible to colds and influenza.
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I did not make the point myself because both of those interventions were peculiarly helpful.
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I know that the subject is a peculiarly difficult one to deal with properly.
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She is peculiarly susceptible to the winds of economic fortune.
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We seek to move away from the purely commercial definition of damage, such as loss of profits, in this peculiarly sensitive area.
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I have here what strikes me as a peculiarly bad case.
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Estimates of the value of saving devices are peculiarly difficult to make.
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The third argument is that the accusation of theft is peculiarly damaging to the accused's reputation.
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We are peculiarly insular and this amendment brings out one point of insularity, although it may have other virtues.
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Without underestimating the value to a poor person, that seems a peculiarly cumbersome way to provide such a small improvement subsidy.
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The type of criminal associated with motor banditry is peculiarly violent.
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We know its peculiarly exacting nature, and we know that the difficulties and intricacies in the settlement of the many and varied issues are enormous.
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There is something peculiarly unpleasant in discovering that cattle—undeniably herbivores—have not only been fed on animal protein, but have been induced to devour each other.
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I have already stated in the answer that his high professional attainments and unique knowledge peculiarly qualified him.
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To use the rather quaint language of the police description, the lady was walking rather peculiarly.
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We have not been talking about science at all today but only about the principles of scientific policy, which is a peculiarly frustrating subject.
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I say "peculiarly sick" because the patient is subjected to a number of treatments but very little effort is made to diagnose his trouble.
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He seems to be peculiarly upset by them.
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The harmonisation of droit de suite is a peculiarly perverse proposal.
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All the public service that he has rendered to this country has a quality peculiarly his own.
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One peculiarly irritating source of exasperation has been the delay over the awards; which naturally cannot be altogether avoided.
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The disqualified driver seems to me to be in a peculiarly privileged position.
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The lady in question is engaged upon work with which women are specially concerned and her previous experience has peculiarly fitted her for the post.
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I feel sure that the present circumstances are of a peculiarly fitting and opportune character for the accomplishment of that purpose.
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They might, for example, plead that their goods were peculiarly liable to competition from dumped imports.
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Of course, that consideration is peculiarly applicable in the case of things which can be sold overseas.
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In an area such as ours, we believe that our problems are peculiarly our own.
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The taxpayer or businessman is peculiarly in possession of and has knowledge of why he wishes to retain surplus.
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I am in a peculiarly fortunate position from that point of view.
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We have now an appeal committee to be composed of magistrates who are peculiarly fitted to try appeals.
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Local authority costs, as we all know, are peculiarly vulnerable to inflation.
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I cannot accept the principle of local government acquisition of virtually every slice of land, by compulsory purchase of a peculiarly offensive kind.
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My second point is that, very often, when someone is treated unfavourably, there are matters peculiarly within the knowledge of the person who is discriminating.
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I think it is peculiarly a post where a political head is required.
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There will be pickings here and there, but that does not apply peculiarly to the legal profession; of course not.
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The moderns are not interested in liberty, equality or fraternity or any of these peculiarly tedious intellectual abstractions.
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Is the work of that exchange peculiarly confidential, and is that the reason why he was not allowed to carry on?
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On that ground the proposal is a peculiarly mean form of economy, if it is any economy at all.
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I spoke to him the other evening in regard to these men whose situation seems to be peculiarly unfortunate.
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A bill of exchange seems to me peculiarly suited for cover of this kind.
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The principal reason for this is that they are peculiarly vulnerable to any kind of physical shock.
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The person who pays this duty is, according to all the canons of taxation, peculiarly well liable to taxation.
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They may have been non-commissioned officers, and they may be men of education, peculiarly fitted for civil employment.
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The reason capital punishment is such a peculiarly difficult aspect of punishment lies in its unique character in the context of retribution and reformation.
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I have always thought him to be quite peculiarly ready to consider other points of view.
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First, inflation creates social injustices of a peculiarly harmful sort.
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Is there not something peculiarly offensive about the way in which the objection has been recorded in the debate?
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