But why be squeamish about fine points and legal niceties when we're at war? |
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A bitter and biting December day in Balerno is no place for niceties and, boy, did these two teams not show us any niceties. |
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At the outset she zips through the social niceties and plunges into a concentrated burst of questions and note-taking. |
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It is not for them to be concerned about the niceties of justice or right and wrong or guilt or innocence. |
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You don't have to follow the rules of social decorum or the niceties of society because you are privileged. |
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She would not mince her words or thoughts and never subscribed to social niceties of polite but fallacious and insincere expressions. |
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It is time to speak openly about the concerns of its citizens, and stop whistling in the dark and resorting to political niceties. |
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I know it's not polite of me to jump over the social niceties like this, but I really don't care that much right now. |
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And why wait for the ecclesiastical niceties to be ironed out before such a task is undertaken? |
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They're on the phone pleasantly discussing the niceties of the forthcoming Christmas season. |
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Their language cuts through the niceties of social intercourse to fundamentals. |
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It's then that I glance over at Irian, who is listening to our niceties with complete incomprehension. |
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If there is no significance, why do you think such niceties as the Chief Justice has described are observed? |
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The stereotypical booner is often described as someone who is uncouth and rough when it comes to social niceties. |
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Too many parents are willing to turn over the teaching of morals and social niceties to schools. |
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In its blithe disregard for niceties the film ends up being a rather clever satire on the whole idea of normality. |
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Though the young couple arrives with good intentions, social niceties are smashed as the foursome gets trashed. |
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The outside, or biruni, is by contrast a public space where social niceties must be observed. |
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All five sit down and begin an overly polite conversation covering such social niceties as the weather. |
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In our view, scaling seriously disenfranchises students and creates failures for no other reason than the reporting of statistical niceties. |
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For them it is a religious duty to do so, and it does not recognise social niceties and common courtesies. |
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The armies of the Axis, Italy and Germany, generally observed the niceties of international law when fighting against western powers. |
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But the autumn of 1945 was not a time noted for sensitivity to the legal niceties of high treason. |
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And they will hire the finest lawyers and planners to navigate their private fortunes safely through the arcane niceties of the tax code. |
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An experienced copy typist, picking up procedural niceties as they went, could retrieve hours of street time for officers. |
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But behind the niceties of the legal arguments, most observers believe that the real agenda is the property play of this very valuable site. |
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But the niceties of narrative structure, pacing and simple declarative English prose aren't her strong point. |
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I am heartily sick of people in shops demanding money with no social niceties. |
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Parents will feed their children no matter what the niceties of your laws are. |
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Careful observance of procedural niceties will impede any speedy response to an unfolding massacre. |
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Why should such niceties matter, as long as a dangerous terrorist is no longer at large? |
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The seasons turn, the social niceties are maintained and those who remember the last war refuse to contemplate a second global conflict. |
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These images have none of the airbrushed niceties of much modern photography, and you pay for the gritty realism. |
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But over the border its Iberian cousin observes no such narrow territorial niceties. |
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Since they just know whether a defendant is guilty or innocent, why worry about niceties of evidence? |
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But why pay attention to such detail as basic diplomatic niceties in the face of a tough negotiation process over territory? |
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These days the field has broadened to include the niceties of life at Elizabethan court or Georgian cricketers in frills and breeches who invent the rules as they go along. |
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Otherwise it abounds in teacherly niceties, testing these dancers in many fine but unshowy points. |
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She encouraged her students to take pictures without concern for aesthetic or social niceties. |
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That they held opinions abominable to those of us who tirelessly invigilate the political niceties goes without saying. |
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These might be considered mere social niceties from a hard-headed economic point-of-view. |
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Such conversational indelicacy one moment, such scrupulousness as to the ethno-erotic niceties the next. |
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If there are fewer potential mates around, men may delay marriage or forgo it entirely, losing out on these nuptial niceties. |
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A man fully steeped in the niceties of Austrian economics might still reject these ends, and not be forced to endure the pain of self-contradiction. |
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But such niceties over which part of the empire rules what never seem to make much difference to Murdoch game plans. |
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The rivalry between them is a genuine one, with little room for niceties, although Greene denies that there is any real menace in it. |
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Since independence few aspiring leaders have troubled much with the niceties of elections. |
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It is not a matter of theoretical niceties, but a way of thinking which can be convincingly presented to the general public. |
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It is not about the niceties of correct procedures: it is about the effect. |
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There are a number of niceties and small details barely noticeable scattered over every model. |
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In other words, the United Nations should put more emphasis on substance rather than on mere cosmetic nuances and niceties. |
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Politicians, particularly, should pay attention to the niceties of language so as to address us meaningfully. |
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This, in other words, was not a time to get hung up on legal niceties. |
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But an absence of niceties nor an unwillingness to conform is not a legitimate cause for impeachment. |
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Still, all these niceties logged, there is no getting away from the crazy coaches and poor kids. |
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Legal niceties matter only when the interests of enemies are at stake. |
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Disregard the niceties of the terms vandalism and anti-social behaviour. |
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But such technical niceties were never likely to win the day last week. |
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In a world of coded language and social niceties, Willis has no qualms about expressing his loves, hates, fears and passions in the bluntest possible terms. |
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They are to be wed in an hour, but a confidence is overheard and suddenly madness ensues, but it must kept within the confines of social niceties. |
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She was beyond social niceties or circumspection or the deliberate creation of an effect and yet nothing she said contradicted what her life had always told us she was. |
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Many on the estate blame the council's letting policy, which meant young people with no idea of social niceties, and drug addicts, managed to get flats. |
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Anyone suffering guilt for the rebellion against all social niceties would have kept up the pretence that she didn't want any water, at least until I had left the building. |
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However, he soon finds the laconic Charlotte to be more than he bargained for, as she shreds every assumption or attempt at social niceties that he makes. |
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A stickler for etiquette and social niceties, this is the sign more than any other that is likely to have nightmares over the phrasing of invitations! |
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We met the new captain while we were taking enemy fire and were unable to observe the niceties of formal introductions. |
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It neither has neither a minister nor a civil service presence of experience that understands the subtle constitutional niceties that are necessary to protect the unique position of the corporation. |
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Why should he cave in to political niceties? |
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As the president of the LDP automatically becomes prime minister, this will amount to a formal resignation. First, however, some niceties have to be attended to in order to save Mr Mori's face. |
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Mr Bird won election after election and, allowing for such niceties as unlimited campaign money and with radio and television biased to the government, the ballots were tolerably free. |
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But with its clearly more marked progressive side, its mesmerizing artwork and its instructive bonus DVD, Kylesa would have to be listened to again and again until discovering the many niceties. |
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He had a genius for financial innovation and an utter disregard for accounting niceties, making him a forefather of some of the financial scandals of the 21st century. |
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People in administrative jobs might well protest that they were not hired as writers, and that their schedules are crammed enough without having to fuss over the niceties of grammar and the like. |
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Primitive politics, xenophobia, and high-handed attitudes to the niceties of democracy and the rule of law, have been shown to be electoral liabilities, not a surefire route to success. |
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I've rarely met anybody so unversed in the niceties of everyday life. |
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There are floods of tears when a rose dries out or when our forests burn, while strategic events are passed over in silence and we focus instead on niceties. |
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While Margaret Murray's forthrightness and salty language may not have been regarded as political assets, they were qualities her readers welcomed, despite her disregard for grammar and other niceties of language. |
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Their routes take us across Europe, from the grousing grape-pickers to the social niceties of George's cocktail parties, from Parisian restaurants to the conclaves of German management. |
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To ponder the social niceties ancillary to your misconduct is quibbling. |
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Yet there's something sentimentally Anglophone about Robb's moonstruck nostalgia for a filthily pure life of passion, revolt and creativity, untroubled by bourgeois niceties. |
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Yet social niceties between owners themselves can prove just as crucial. |
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Mr. Speaker, it is very nice to hear the opposition talking about niceties and that this should be a public inquiry, and that it is not about criminal things, this thing and other things. |
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I will be very brief about the customary niceties of this maiden speech in order to save time for debate material on this subject of peacekeeping. |
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Social niceties are not what Bill Gates is about. |
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This is not a debate about legal niceties. |
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The conceptual niceties hinge on the fact of knowing whether it is possible to speak of free and informed consent, and largely depend on the socio-cultural setting. |
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The time for diplomatic niceties has passed. |
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The NDP initiated an emergency Parliamentary debate, resulting in a unanimous motion for the strongest possible actions, but empty rhetoric and diplomatic niceties have to end on the part of the federal government. |
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That would have made a significant difference in the ability of many of our low income seniors to have a bit of extra money to enjoy a few extra niceties in life, a bit of a vacation or a dinner out. |
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I loved his lesson for her in empathetic social niceties. |
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We know this is a complex administrative issue, but many of the niceties of exclusion of certain benefits and complex rules simply appear as barriers. |
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They want them to have all kinds of freedoms and niceties but sending them a cheque while they are in jail getting warmed up at taxpayer expense was hardly a sound move. |
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In this masterpiece he blunderingly negotiates the social niceties of a French seaside hotel armed only with a butterfly net and a wicked tennis serve. |
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A clammer arose for a more basic rifle eliminating such niceties as the expensive battle sights and slimming down the handguard by trimming the cluster of Picatinny rails. |
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