It is a self-conscious abdication of responsibility, for the sake of an individual ego. |
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Honestly, I can't be bothered reading these three novels just for the sake of completing the now-irrelevant longlist. |
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The great thing about being in Calgary, as opposed to L.A., is that you kind of do art for art's sake, and comedy for comedy's sake. |
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He understood best how to play the emotions, but his contemporaries are impatient with an aesthetic of art for art's sake. |
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Gold items like armlets and belt buckles are well in evidence, although only reproductions are on display for the sake of security. |
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This is not the same as being argumentative, or arguing just for the sake of arguing. |
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Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that this guard did in fact stop to think things over carefully. |
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The examples that follow are discussed simply for the sake of argument because they do not occur in Hebrew historiography. |
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Suppose for the sake of argument that the government controls the export of capital. |
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For their sake, he made them all perish in the next instant, dying as quick as a living creature could possibly. |
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A Downton builder is preparing to trek across the snowy Arctic wastes to the North Pole, for the sake of his sick granddaughter. |
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These are only a tiny fraction of the theories given by Arab viewers but, for the sake of brevity, I will not recount them all. |
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And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? |
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For the past several decades our dedication to the liberal arts, to learning for its own sake, has been predominant. |
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Their son was particularly concerned that we bless the space under his bed, so I was liberal with the holy water for his sake. |
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I personally think that hunger for change for change's sake is pretty infantile. |
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And, for the sake of comparison, I couldn't find any reference to the US Supreme Court reviewing mandatory sentencing laws either. |
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Once an exception is made for the rule, others will be added for the sake of equal treatment. |
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To spend so much for the sake of legislating against a minority doing something they never did is, to my effete southern mind, perverse. |
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For the sake of this documentary, he restricts himself to a 30-day diet of nothing but food and drink found on the McDonald's menu. |
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All we are left with, then, is a belief in participation for its own sake, devoid of any content or realised goal. |
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People appointed to positions of leadership should not crave power for its own sake. |
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It's hard to live with someone in a different time zone, so I converted for the sake of the relationship. |
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It argues over the ethics of non-involvement, and scoffs at those who would rationalize the repugnant for the sake of a settled conscience. |
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We live in the only house in the west of Scotland that doesn't have a zapper for the telly, for heaven's sake. |
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No one person may always have the last word just for the sake of having the last word. |
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Ralph urges them to move on for the sake of rekindling the signal fire on the mountain. |
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For the sake of successful cooperation the respective responsibilities of clergy and laity must be clearly demarcated. |
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If they're willing to abandon their own grandchildren for the sake of worshipping their son's memory, then it's their loss, and let them go. |
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Take the case of accepting something as a working hypothesis or for the sake of argument. |
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The recommended way to enjoy soju or sake, the national drinks of South Korea and Japan, is by quickly knocking them back in short, small shots. |
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For God's sake, woman, it's a tweed skirt and a polo neck with a pair of boots. |
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Heaped on a pedestal, the intact wishbones are perfect wish opportunities forgone for the sake of art. |
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They're supposed to go on financing research until kingdom come, not to increase recovery rates, but to pursue knowledge for its own sake. |
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Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake. |
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Toussaint had honed his defiant style for years as a leader of a rebel faction whose positions sometimes seemed like militancy for its own sake. |
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But they are all in agreement that he is not a simple controversialist just for the sake of it. |
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She suggested I do a test anyway which I went along with just for her sake. |
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But, for the sake of my own sanity and my place in society, I remain somewhat agnostic about it all. |
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Their willingness to sign the interim constitution is a promising indication of a readiness to compromise for the sake of the country. |
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Nica loved razzing her friend, especially when she was supposed to be whispering for the sake of a guy nearby. |
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A lot of African countries have become banana republics because they tend to be emotional, to Africanize just for the sake of it. |
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For the sake of the future, the truth must be pursued relentlessly wherever and whatever it leads to. |
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Liam bumped into his old adversary in London's Camden Town recently and berated him for old time's sake. |
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And if that's what they want, they should never change just for the sake of being able to spend a bit of time with some jumped-up idiot. |
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The administration of justice has to be in a safe environment for everyone's sake, including the accused. |
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For goodness sake, give it a rest and come down off your moralistic and judgmental perch. |
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Emma, angry at the insult to Miss Taylor's husband, holds her tongue for the sake of family civility. |
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For their own sake and that of the country, they would be well advised to concentrate on issues about which the electorate actually cares. |
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Buskers used to be arrested for making a racket for the sake of the price of a cup of tea. |
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It is hoped, for the sake of millions of poor Filipinos, that he is not just putting on an act, good movie actor that he was. |
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Gwen made a face at the rabbit food, ordering two different types of sushi and a bottle of sake for herself. |
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Is this a morally questionable thing to do or are some lies necessary for the sake of social cohesion? |
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They called the wine tintashu, combining the Japanese word for sake with a derivative of the Portuguese word for red. |
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Instead, academia sometimes draws criticism for apparently doing research for its own sake. |
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I'm a pensioner for goodness sake, I'm hardly likely to go round walloping people. |
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And we may get talky at times too, but it won't be for its own sake, or to pull the wool over people's eyes. |
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The emphasis on the day will be to enjoy a walk with family and friends for your heart's sake. |
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We used an earlier, abortive, suicide attempt to show that Sylvia had taken a decision not to commit suicide, for the sake of the children. |
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I don't want to upset any owners of these abominations but for heavens sake, what on earth possessed you when you bought one of these things. |
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I will go out for him for the sake of research but really 3 calls in 2 days is a bit much since we haven't even had a date yet! |
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Suffice to say, much as I would love to be a wage slave again for the sake of my dreams of becoming a homeowner, I am not ready. |
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She prefers her other suitor, George Neville, but when Griffith loses his inheritance for her sake she accepts him, hoping for a contented marriage without undue submission. |
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Is subversion on the horizon or will Black Jesus sacrifice a historically political concept for the sake of a stoner comedy? |
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She axes the terrible contestants while still soothing them, flashing that sweet J.Lo smile, for the sake of our entertainment. |
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For the sake of our novel experiment in broad-based multiracial democracy, I hope they reject the Cathie Adamses of their party. |
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I believe that the time frame suggested in the bill in which claims should be completed suggests that we may compromise justness and fairness all for the sake of expediency. |
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Punishment for its own sake, whilst perhaps psychologically satisfying the need for recriminative justice, is most costly, as it does little to control re-offending. |
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Here is what it said, with a few redactions for discretion's sake. |
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So for heaven's sake, let's not get our knickers in a twist about it. |
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And I wish, for the sake of our country and in the name of decency, both sides would cease and desist. |
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Perhaps Shann could have been more specific for the sake of those readers who do not have the time to seek out all the articles cited as references. |
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So, he decided to give the church a chance, if not just for the sake of mending his relationship with his mother. |
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But now it is time for them to put their interests in the forefront for the sake of the nation. |
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Again and again, the band sacrifices the simple joy of a pop hook for the sake of a dense, meditative ambiance. |
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Get assurances that the caterer adheres to health and safety regulations, for the sake of your guests, and that food is transported in refrigerated vans, and such like. |
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He found the rest to be dedicated and ever ready to race into direst danger for the sake of complete strangers. |
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He had to watch himself, had to act like any common, worthless lackey for the sake of self-preservation until he had everything organized and put perfectly into place. |
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Many patients buried their emotions, utterly helpless and dependent as they were, for the sake of peace, maintaining an outer stoicism they did not feel. |
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We sit and he orders sake and yakitori for the 3 of us, and this sake is absolutely sublime. Delicious, melt in the mouth, like drinking liquid velvet. |
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Chances are you're a workaholic if you feel compelled to work for the sake of working, and you feel panic, anxiety or a sense of loss when you aren't working. |
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No more chilling evocation of the willing choice of evil exists in all literature than Lady Macbeth's famous renunciation of maternal feeling for the sake of power. |
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Max, that map behind you looks like a lava lamp, for Pete's sake. |
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The 7,000-ton freighter is still stocked with sake bottles and four fighter planes, and it is encircled by gray reef. |
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This once great Service has now lost a great deal of public respect and its reputation is badly damaged, all for the sake of individual political egos. |
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Years later they anglicised their names for the sake of their daughter. |
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My appeal to all pastors, bishops, reverends and other church leaders, is that they should not sell their birthright to any organisation for the sake of money. |
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We also ordered a bottle of sake, which arrived lickety-split. |
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Gen Xers refuse to sacrifice their personal lives for the sake of the job. |
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For clues in his text suggest some of them have apostatized because they too have experienced persecution and even in some cases death, for the sake of the gospel. |
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For the sake of a few pounds this man has seriously injured an old woman and we are appealing for help in tracking him down before he strikes again. |
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For its own sake, the Republican Party should reject this idea as forcefully as possible. |
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It's an odd looking movie that embraces the idea of art for art's sake. |
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These artists see the value of their productions as art for art's sake as well as revelations of the truth and presentation of possibilities for their listeners. |
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Having criticized art for art's sake for being potentially reactionary, they then focus on the counterproposal they offer to socialist realism and Stalinism. |
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Ruskin's pre-Raphaelitism, for example, which stressed the moral purpose of art, contrasted Pater's aestheticism, which promoted the idea of art for art's sake. |
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The term variety, again, in comparison with mere individual differences, is also applied arbitrarily, and for convenience sake. |
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A woman... might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife. |
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The idea of travelling for the sake of curiosity and learning was a developing idea in the 17th century. |
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Sir Wilfred Griffin Eady defined liberal education as being education for its own sake and personal enrichment, with the teaching of values. |
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Neither you nor I attach for the moment any superlative value to this Treaty for the sake of the extension of British trade. |
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Recreational battle reenactment tends to focus on pitched battles partially for sake of ease of demonstration. |
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Electrical charges are omitted from subsequent equations for the sake of generality. |
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Robata is modeled after the casual robatayaki pubs in Japan, where people go to enjoy a few meat skewers with sake or beer. |
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Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake. |
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However, it is introduced for the sake of a higher precision in the structuralistic reconstruction of that theory. |
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Halloween? I dressed up as a Transformer. I dressed up as a Power Ranger. I was one of the Chipmunks for God's sake. |
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The two eastern arches have been underbuilt for the sake of strengthening them. |
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As a result, Claudius reduced the Senate's power for the sake of efficiency. |
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God's sake, speak her fair and canny, or we will have a raveled hasp on the yarn-windles! |
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Some films of ancient settings, such as Sebastiane and The Passion of the Christ, have been made with dialogue in Latin for the sake of realism. |
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For the sake of simplicity, these types of sites will be referred to as wikis for the remainder of this article. |
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The frozen sake mold is then immersed in an algin bath to make gelatin spheres. |
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If jockeys are prevented from using the whip as a spur, racing becomes a woolier version of itself only for the sake of appearances. |
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For the sake of this post, let's call this cadre the Republican base. |
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Plus, Anna proves she's not afraid to suffer for the sake of our education as she strips off for an extreme bikini wax. |
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Because such an officer would have done what he did for the sake of the bribe. |
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He sacrificed his life for the sake of his people and they poured a stone pile over his grave, which later turned into the Ural Mountains. |
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For simplicity's sake, the range of diverse rituals can be divided into categories with common characteristics. |
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For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning. |
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They should desire conversion to Judaism for its own sake, and for no other motives. |
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Ancient Roman historians did not write for the sake of writing, they wrote in an effort to convince their audiences. |
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He had made many concessions to Anthony and to Lepidus for the sake of vengeance on his father's murderers. |
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The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you. |
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Observations include baseline comparisons for the sake of quantitative impact assessments. |
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She said that she had considered becoming a recluse, but eventually decided against the idea for the sake of her fans. |
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The Bills are considered for the sake of form only, and do not make any actual progress. |
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Their emphasis on morality appealed to Shaw, who rejected the idea of art for art's sake, and insisted that all great art must be didactic. |
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In 1881, for the sake of economy, and increasingly as a matter of principle, he became a vegetarian. |
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Stories were offered as allegedly true recent histories, not for the sake of scandal but strictly for the moral lessons they gave. |
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However, for the sake of convenience, catechisms will often speak of the seven Great Mysteries. |
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This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection. |
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What? Go and do some work for heaven's sake. Stop moping. I swear Ross, I have never met anyone in my life more impossibly moansome. |
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Shaw, not being easily pleased, decides to throw over humanity with all its limitations and go in for progress for its own sake. |
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It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. |
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Labradoodles might not be as serious as that but there is no reason to inflict pointless suffering on dogs for the sake of human vanity. |
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For the sake of all our lugholes, the ONLY food I'd put on sale at the cinema is bananas. |
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Daniels's coinage 'abjad' won't glister in the annals of euonymy, but I must use it here for clarity's sake. |
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He adopted Clouet's method of drawing with coloured chalks on a plain ground, as well as his care over preliminary portraits for their own sake. |
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For the sake of decreasing the through-plane resistivity of BPs, an excess of conductive additives is generally added to the polymer matrix. |
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Most men gave him a wide berth, and for the sake of peace accepted sneers and insults that made the blood boil. |
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I can very well recall the incident, where, for the sake of a promotion, my fellow colleague backstabbed me. |
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Some of the marriage attempts of the 6th century AD were deliberately planned for the sake of royal succession. |
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They'll try all they can to deceive and to cheat, But for goodness sake don't say I told you. |
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These young women are busy, for goodness' sake, tired and overworked, stressed, trying to find time for themselves in days that have too little. |
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Although I do not totally disagree with this point, for the sake of scientificity I refrain myself from using it. |
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Rich told Fisher that for his own conscience's sake the King wished to know, in strict secrecy, Fisher's real opinion. |
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For the sake of this support, the party advocated for agricultural tariffs, for antimargarine laws, and for restrictions on meat importation. |
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For goodness' sake, I spelled that word correctly. I never knew I could do that. |
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But tho' a conscientious disciplinarian, he was no lover of authority for mere authority's sake. |
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The bills are considered for the sake of ceremony only, and do not make any actual legislative progress. |
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For goodness' sake, we go to Spain for a week and get new next-door neighbors! How lovely! |
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I will never break the word of a prince spoken in public place, for my honour's sake. |
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Philip was unhappy at the conditions imposed, but he was ready to agree for the sake of securing the marriage. |
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And I pray you for my sake to force yourselff there, that men may speke you worshyp. |
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Sometimes the odor of the armpit may even become a kind of fetich which is craved for its own sake and in itself suffices to give pleasure. |
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Still, those constraints need to be considered and discussed explicitly for the sake of clarity and exhaustivity when reporting results. |
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The purpose of this expedition is debated, though Asser claims that it was for the sake of plunder. |
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In Mumford's mind, the society organized around biotechnics would restrain its technology for the sake of that integral relationship. |
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At this time the idea of travel for its own sake was still novel, and Fiennes was exceptional as an enthusiastic woman traveller. |
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He distributed seven issues of The Spectator to his family in August and September 1820 for the sake of having fun. |
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This allows the UK to exchange information with countries that are a part of the Schengen agreement, often for the sake of liaising over law enforcement. |
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Early examples of legal enactments designed to consciously preserve the environment, for its own sake or human enjoyment, are found throughout history. |
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Some universities were initially resistant to this change, considering it a displacement of a venerable tradition for the pure sake of globalization. |
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For the sake of convenience the title is generally shortened to Hanse, but the initial capital is retained, not least to prevent confusion with other hanses. |
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However these objects are at least largely there because they carry layers of complex significance and symbolism that undercut any commitment to realism for its own sake. |
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Sudbury's business community celebrated the career and legacy of a man who risked his own life many times for the sake of his business, at a retirement party for Robert Lipic. |
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But for goodness sake, please review the plan and come up with detail that distinguishes each groups cultural identity and is something that the players can own. |
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The endwork of such a critical task that freely places blame or adjudicates value for the sake of a castigation or rejection of worth is performed too quickly and easily. |
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And do others like it if you will take circumbendibuses for sound's sake! |
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The current practice of exporting primary wood to the south and shipping the remnants to other countries needs to be re-evaluated for the sake of the economy. |
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The governments of England and France knew perfectly well that Eisenhower's speech condemning their aggression was just a gesture for the sake of public appearances. |
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First, there is palilogia, which is an idiosyncrasy of certain rhetoricians and public speakers who deliberately repeat a word or phrase or sentence for the sake of emphasis. |
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Bless, guide, and defend them, that they may pass through this world, as finally to enjoy in thy presence everlasting happiness, for Jesus Christ's sake. |
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According to Hobbes, society is a population beneath a sovereign authority, to whom all individuals in that society cede some rights for the sake of protection. |
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This sometimes led to compromising defence for the sake of display. |
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Put a pub crawl together with your BFFs, do sake bombs while you wail your heart out at a karaoke bar, play some sloshball with your friends in the park. |
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Who is it, that is so bottomlesly ill, as to love vice, because it is vice? Yet we find, there are some so good, as to love goodness purely for goodness sake. |
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He always made preparatory portraits of his sitters, though many drawings survive for which no painted version is known, suggesting that some were drawn for their own sake. |
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Hence the Son of Heaven is established for the sake of All under Heaven. |
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The World Cup in Qatar should take place in the winter months for the sake of spectators, according to a new report published in the International Journal of Biometeorology. |
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Gregory Watt, son of James Watt, visited Penzance for his health's sake, and while lodging at the Davy's house became a friend and gave him instructions in chemistry. |
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Most zoos or wildlife parks across the world usually try to replicate animals' natural habitat as best they can for the sake of the animals' wellbeing. |
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The phenomenological reduction may be considered as a methodological device resorted to for the sake of arriving at radical and radically justified philosophical knowledge. |
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Nevertheless for the sake of discussion here, I posit a situation that engages experts and uses the thrip infestation as a hypothetical case study. |
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