He also emphasized that salvation was complete in Christ, countering the legalistic ascetism of Gnosticism. |
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Employing all the legalistic tricks of her trade, she probed and cross-examined me at breakfast and each evening. |
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Most said they were met with a defensive and legalistic attitude by the organisation. |
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So far it looks like a thinly veiled threat to drag the process out in legalistic wranglings. |
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The way in which the police maintained order and enforced the law was itself supposed to be governed by legalistic procedures and constraints. |
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Despite their legalistic attempts at clarity, these definitions rest on the quicksand foundation of ever-shifting social mores. |
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They fail to understand why simply sending out a legalistic privacy brochure isn't enough to satisfy most consumers. |
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This is not to be taken as a recipe for a legalistic interpretation of the Convention. |
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There is a need for an educational rather than legalistic policy on student access to the Internet. |
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They seemed to favor a protracted, multilateral and legalistic approach to international affairs. |
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The book broke apart the puzzle pieces which he had spent decades clamping together into airtight legalistic arguments against God. |
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As we should expect, given the legalistic form of his ethical theory, Kant's political thought is jurisprudential. |
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Excessively legalistic textual criticism of planning decision letters is something the courts should strongly discourage. |
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He kept waving him off, pouring the matter into legalistic simplicities that easily rounded the contract. |
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In fact I think the most legalistic people are usually what might be jokingly referred to as the bush lawyers. |
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Money dues lent themselves more easily to negotiation in detail, and so encouraged a more legalistic attitude towards relations between lords and tenants. |
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The relationship between voluntary and legalistic approaches is also apparent in other respects. |
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The inquiry has clearly taken a very narrow, legalistic view of the situation. |
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That kind of effort has also been undertaken by the European Commission in the face of legalistic objections. |
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However, focus group respondents tended to describe the documents they received as dense and legalistic. |
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At the same time, it avoids the highly legalistic and rigid approach to what is and is not permitted which can arise in a rules-based regime. |
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Second, you say we also need to turn our minds and resources to approaches around mediation and get away from legalistic litigation approaches. |
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Most focus group participants' recollections of the card holder agreements they received are of dense, legalistic and impractical documents. |
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As a result, a significant portion of the recommendations and the report itself were very legalistic. |
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The mere threat of legalistic regulation often prompts TNCs to adopt voluntary CSR initiatives. |
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Our conciliation process avoids an overly legalistic approach. |
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The latest draft agreement was unduly complicated and legalistic. |
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Al-Mughni's statement was technical, legalistic, convoluted and entirely unconvincing. |
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This problematics, however much it touches the core of a crucial argument, ceases precisely because it is already circumscribed by legalistic notions of loyalty. |
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That will surely stultify debate about the proper role of the law in America hardly a trivial matter in the most legalistic society on earth. |
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The system was supposed to replace the box-ticking, legalistic approach that dogged predecessors with a more flexible approach based on high-level principles. |
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More products or services may have to be offered with the kind of legalistic bumf that is now attached to computer software. |
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Once again, a more adversarial and legalistic approach arguably had an effect on the Water Board's standard practice. |
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The Action Plan states that if we are serious about preventing or stopping genocide, delays caused by legalistic arguments about whether or not a particular atrocity meets the definition of genocide, be avoided. |
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The uncertainty will lead lawyers to advise their clients to stay silent or to draft apologies in such legalistic and artificial language28 that the victim will see them as insincere or calculating. |
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In view of the confusion, contradictions, and legalistic hairsplitting, which characterize the realm of antitrust, I submit that the entire antitrust system must be opened for review. |
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History has no patience and no use for legalistic nitpicking, bureaucratic turf wars and those who see Europe as twelve stars rotating around their navel. |
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He's very legalistic, so let's hope the law is just and merciful as well as strict. |
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His legalistic tendencies irritated his neighbors, especially since they had to defend themselves against his frivolous suits. |
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In hindsight this was only a legalistic charade which had little chance of holding up in a court of law. |
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The cumbersome, legalistic way in which Mr Wahid's opponents have tried to oust him offers the best hope that the succession process need not be so disastrous. |
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And so on, through the interminable rituals of legalistic nyah-nyahing, group dominance struggles, and occasional violence that comprise elementary-school playground life. |
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After the Enron scandal initially broke, the five closed ranks to back a statement by Mr Berardino implying that the problem was overly legalistic accounting rules rather than in the profession's ethics. |
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The recent trend in public apologies, dripping with faux-contrition and legalistic qualifications, is an unavoidable outcome of people understanding more about how trust works. |
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It is not a legalistic or technical problem, it is a political one. |
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Milton's God, by contrast, is legalistic, domineering and dry as dust. |
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However, a respondent from this organization noted that, due to the increasingly legalistic nature of poverty law, the involvement of lawyers is increasingly necessary. |
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A key element of sovereignty in a legalistic sense is that of exclusivity of jurisdiction. |
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As a union that has championed equal pay for work of equal value for decades, we understand fully well that the current system takes too long and is unnecessarily legalistic. |
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As for arbitration, Kenya recognized that, as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism, it was a rapid, economical and less legalistic means of settling differences. |
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If greed is the prime directive-in my analysis-I get the sense that this whole framework is like a legalistic, very complex way of excusing an addiction. |
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Generally, all these texts are restricted to legalistic writings. |
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When imagination fails doctrines become ossified, witness and proclamation wooden, doxologies and litanies empty, consolations hollow, and ethics legalistic. |
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And preaching moral outrage against others while living and doing what it objects to is a necessary part of legalistic, moralistic right-wing religions. |
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She was legalistic in her observation of religious rules and traditions. |
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