They negotiate the dicey line between mimicry and mockery partly by dint of fascination with details. |
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Trying new and different products by dint of what new and different labels show up on the bar has become second nature to them. |
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Though they came close when they stole a crane and deposited a Volkswagen Beetle in the Guest room by dint of tearing a huge hole in the roof. |
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There is none of the religiose sentiment that Europeans have, investing ancient buildings with meaning by dint of age alone. |
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The extent to which beliefs can be modified by doubt gives me a bit of a fingerhold onto how beliefs can be chosen by dint of one's will. |
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But one day by dint of sheer chance and perverse good luck Vernon happened to be struck by a rather smashing train of thought. |
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He cannot be expected to achieve results by dint of enthusiasm and fresh ideas alone. |
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Pies are always less fancy than cakes, by dint of their modest shape and humble nature. |
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That, for a start, is why it lacks a general and uncontentious component, which has been introduced into the text only by dint of 70 amendments. |
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Demand does not have to go down, by dint of creation's quiddity, when price goes up. |
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And then by dint of repetition of this attitude of zazen, we are going to discover that this body himself, material, is in fact spiritual. |
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Escaping from bondage in Egypt by dint of magic and smart talk is comprehensible: Exodus played to our strengths. |
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Though he made it back to the top by dint of talent and hard work, he remained a deep-dyed cynic for the rest of his life. |
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They are mainly people marked by a harsh childhood, victims of a society which survived by dint of imposition and whose lives created an indomitably rebel spirit. |
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The new Europe is being forged by dint of determination, and this shared resolve will enable us to meet these new challenges. |
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Subsequent generations of Biblicists have followed suit, and by dint of their efforts they have legitimated and routinized the right of an individual to criticize the sacred. |
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Both state and federal rulings have imposed additional punishments on women by dint of the fact they were pregnant. |
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I'd like to think that the tenets of deep ecology are part of human consciousness by dint of the fact that we evolved, co-evolved with entire biotic communities. |
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The church of St Clement Danes also lays claim to being the inspiration for the lyrics, also by dint of citrus fruits being unloaded at the nearby wharves. |
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The tensions here arise from the notion that democracies decide to go to war as nations, not by dint of decree. |
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You have surely noted that language management is not static: by dint of certain political initiatives, the demands of various stakeholders and the interpretation of the courts, our management is constantly being renewed. |
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The elderly spinster at Somerville College Oxford who taught me Norman history, had the edge on each of these exemplars by dint of her surface innocuousness. |
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This was the case with Bianca James, a Secondary 2 student at St-Theresa School, who by dint of sheer perseverance realized that she too could surpass herself and attain undreamed-of goals. |
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From there, by dint of hard work and the skilled professionalism of our staff it developed into the attractive, free of advertising, and newsy professional document that you see today. |
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Then, by dint of another fundamental property of superconductors, they abruptly become resistive again, only to go back to business as usual when the surge dissipates. |
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For Edmar Castaneda, the unconventional comes by dint of instrumentation. |
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This regular reporting, and response by dint of Board decisions and General Conference resolutions, can be seen as an exchange the effect of which is to set expectations and responsibilities on the Director-General. |
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However, by dint of multiple manoeuvres and sail changes, Marc Guillemot managed to hang on to his lead over Anne Liardet despite the Safran boat's weight handicap compared with Roxy. |
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Since VAT is a tax on consumption, the Commission feels that the best means of determining the revenues due to each Member State by dint of taxed consumption on its territory is to quantify that consumption statistically. |
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The Canadian army would not acquire its first tanks until 1938, and then only by dint of the determination of Major-General F. F. Worthington, the pioneer of armoured warfare in Canada. |
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The relevant Egyptian ministry has, by dint of constant efforts, succeeded in concluding bilateral labour agreements with a number of States with these ends in view. |
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The mountains were theirs by right, by dint of deed and hefty mortgage. |
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The people who, by dint of not arguing, serve only to make the gutbuckets worse. |
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Yet Wilson is also dowdily old-fashioned, by dint of her subject matter. |
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By dint of its popularity and enduring performance legs, Grease has clawed an undebatable home for itself in the musical theatre canon. |
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By dint of its association with racist violence, the skinhead scene occupies a special, troubling place among youth subcultures. |
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By dint of hard work and determination Piper used his natural artistic talent and practical skills to great effect. |
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By dint of not mentioning snow, I gently prised the story out of him, learning that he'd fumbled the first deal and lost two or three months in the process. |
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By dint of will, intelligence, and luck he had risen, Horatio Alger-like, from an impoverished and brutal childhood. |
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