But minor vexations are not the same as an assault on fundamental liberties. |
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We can no longer afford to dismiss the vexations of terror now that they have invaded our own spiritual and intellectual terrain. |
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My whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. |
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If the Social Democratic policy has chafed occasionally, the benefits far outweigh the vexations. |
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The man seemed to have grasped the essence of standing aloof from worldly anxieties and vexations. |
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The lens in this collection is focused very carefully upon the quotidian, with all of its utterly familiar vexations. |
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You're involved in an academic setting which, I'm sure has its vexations, but it beats the factory. |
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It is easy to dismiss racial profiling and other examples of prejudice as minor vexations when the nation faces deadly attacks on its citizens both here and abroad. |
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I find I am much less argumentative with people in person when I have the opportunity to work through vexations in the peculiarly public way blogging allows. |
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The reality I saw was that of a life of vexations, obstacles, restrictions and insecurity. |
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Collecting is capable of so absorbing our thoughts that we have none to spare for our usual vexations. |
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Judges as human beings are subject to all the vexations and emotions to which ordinary human beings are prone. |
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This is what keeps him in jubilation, knowing that all the vexations, sufferings, illnesses or other tribulations contribute to his purification. |
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It was my well-won reward after the trials on the road and the vexations by which for several years various officials had endeavoured to prevent my wanderings in Tibet. |
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Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. |
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The labyrinth of perplexities that Abigail surveyed best summarized the vexations of the delegates in Philadelphia. |
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The poor indeed are insensible of many little vexations which sometimes embitter the possessions and pollute the enjoyments of the rich. |
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Liability may be brought into play from the time when the vexations or emissions exceed an acceptable threshold, in view of the circumstances of time and place. |
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It might be easy to snigger at the work's wilful abstruseness, but there remains a glimmer of cerebral frisson in such historic cultural vexations. |
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Even if the reproduction of a PMC-GEET does not present a risk, we are not responsible for the possible vexations undergone by futures experimenters. |
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Such vexations more often visited her, now that she was no longer the young mistress of Mordant Hall, all abustle and renowned for her Daguerreotype memory. |
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Staging the global weltschmerz but not making a fetish of it, these curators and artists wrest compelling propositions from the vexations of their respective forms. |
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