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* Yet framing opportunism as a lesser evil implies the absence of clear positive principles of what would be good to do ; Baldwin could be understood as saying that the political process is itself the means by which it is sorted out what those principles should be, or that politics can achieve no more than prevent worse things from happening ( in his play Hamlet, William Shakespeare refers to the conservative notion of being " cruel to be kind " – so that " bad begins and worse remains behind ").
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Yet the work is sometimes called a symphony ; it consists of two powerful outer movements framing a lighter, faster piece which acts as a type of scherzo.
Yet and opportunism
Yet insofar as allegations of opportunism reflect a moral judgment, they may also contain a subjective interpretation, emotional preference or partisan viewpoint.
Yet and lesser
Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper, and the only lesser immediacy of block capitals that simulate window lettering, manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture plane so that it does not `` jump ''.
Yet, there has been a recent debate over the crucial role the Deacons and other lesser known militant organizations played on local levels throughout much of the rural South.
Yet its clear resemblance to the other full-size Pontiacs caused some to consider it a lesser model than the other personal luxury cars.
Yet, an even lesser estimate of trucks destroyed by the Defense Intelligence Agency only resulted in their computer model reaching zero ( where the enemy was supposed to be out of trucks ) no fewer that 14 times during the same time period.
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Yet and evil
Yet it seems clear that there can be no good sufficiently great, or evil repelled sufficiently grave, to warrant the destruction of mankind by man's own action.
Yet, these claims are in jarring contrast with the fact that there is much evil in the world.
Yet this gift is threatened by the only other survivors the women encounter, the people of the Ark, who believe that except for the Bible, all books are evil.
Yet, in his attempt to save his friends, Link discovers an even greater evil only he can stop.
Yet, in the season two episode, " The Secret of Omega Supreme ," the secret history of the eponymous character and the Constructicons comes out, which reveals their past on Cybertron together, where the Constructicons were formerly not evil, though they still showed the Decepticon insignia, but were turned to evil by Megatron.
Yet, being itself the result of higher powers becoming corporeal, a continual stream of elevating influence flows from them to it, interfering with its necessary laws and turning to good ends the imperfect and evil.
Yet, its overriding theme is war's evil.
Yet, at the same time, he wasn't " evil for evil's sake.
Yet another version holds that a sect of Monks who wore large wooden crosses around their necks would tap or " knock " on them to ward away evil.
Yet the only thing keeping him from being purely evil is his true love Jenny Romano as well as his love for his daughter Hope and others.
Yet and implies
Yet there is a nucleation barrier, which implies an interfacial discontinuity ( or internal surface ) between the glass and the melt.
Yet the term's use of open source clearly currently implies the meaning as given to it by the open source software movement ; where the source code of programs is published openly to allow anyone to locate and fix mistakes or add new functions.
Yet every descending chain of ( without loss of generality ) proper submodules terminates: Each such chain has the form for some integers ..., and the inclusion of implies that must divide.
Yet, morriña often implies a deeper stage of saudade, a " saudade so strong it can even kill ," as the Galician saying goes.
Yet and absence
Yet our state is similar to a cancer cell — with its messianism and expansionism, its totalitarian suppression of dissent, the authoritarian structure of power, with a total absence of public control in the most important decisions in domestic and foreign policy, a closed society that does not inform its citizens of anything substantial, closed to the outside world, without freedom of travel or the exchange of information.
Yet cooperation, and even altruism and morality, are prevalent, even in the absence of coercion, even though it seems that a properly self-regarding individual should reject all such social strictures and limitations.
Yet it is clear that it was the absence of her husband on military service in Cilicia which gave Tibullus the opportunity of seeing her, and he continued to do so when the husband returned.
Yet again, British Waterways stressed the absence of a crocodile.
Yet he does not approach this absence and loss with the nostalgia that marks Heidegger's attempt to uncover some original truths beneath the accretions of a false metaphysics that have accumulated since Socrates.
Yet, since discovery of resistance to thyroid hormones in the absence of thyroid hormone receptor beta mutations, lack of a mutation in a patient does not rule out resistance.
Yet and clear
Yet, one cannot always trust Caesar and Tacitus when they ascribe individuals and tribes to one or the other category, although Caesar made clear distinctions between the two cultures.
Yet it also made clear that the plot was in no way official and that any activity centred on a small group of discontented officers.
Yet it is clear that the Concilium bore no fruit in the actual situation, and that in Rome no results followed from the committee's recommendations.
Yet as the above oration also makes clear, Vico chose to emphasize the Aristotelian connection of rhetoric with dialectic or logic, thereby reconnecting rhetoric to ends ( or topics ) as their center.
Yet as his works spanned the golden age of grand opera, clear traces of his influence can be found in the grand operas of Fromental Halévy, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi and others.
Yet sea battles were rarely decisive and it was almost impossible to inflict enough damage on ships and men to win a clear victory: ultimate success depended not on tactical brilliance but on sheer weight of numbers.
Yet in Homer's Odyssey, Circe tells Odysseus, " One ship alone, one deep-sea craft sailed clear, the Argo, sung by the world, when heading home from Aeetes ' shores.
Yet there were better reasons than vanity — I needed the advance the publishers offered, which was far more generous than any given to me for a play ; the theatre itself, once so alluring, now seemed past its best, the wrinkles showing, the kisses dry and dutiful ; it would be a bitter pleasure to describe my disenchantment and blame the people who'd done me down ; and if I didn't write a book about me, it was clear no one else would.
Yet, although various theories have been forwarded about Nazi Germany's ultimate plans for Leningrad, including renaming the city Adolfsburg and making it the capital of the new Ingermanland province of the Reich in Generalplan Ost, it is clear that Hitler's intention was to utterly destroy the city and its population.
Yet for Schmitt the political was not an autonomous domain equivalent to the other domains, but rather the existential basis that would determine any other domain should it reach the point of politics ( e. g. religion ceases to be merely theological when it makes a clear distinction between the " friend " and the " enemy ").
Yet, despite the disease's discouragingly high mortality in that era, it became clear after radiation treatments that Godfrey had beaten the substantial odds against him.
Yet, before using these examples to condemn work rules as such, one has to be clear as to what the reasons are behind the restrictions.
Yet from the writings of Chrysostom it is clear he found joy in ascetic self-discipline, and he had just assumed a celibate life when he was fascinated by a girl named Hermione ( Chrysostom ibid.
Yet with 11 Platoon engaged from its left, front and right, it became clear that the Viet Cong force was stronger than a platoon, and was probably at least company-sized.
Yet it is not clear if many people stick to their promises to cooperate.
Yet for all he had to say about the present, his language is amazingly clear and direct, and the formal aspects of his verse are amazingly conservative.
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Yet the fundamental concept is melodic, the thinking clear and logical, the sentiment sincere and direct .”
Yet elsewhere we come across short and pithy melodies, with a clear pulsation.
Yet, it was clear that the single manager concept, though successful, did not provide the uniform procedures that the Hoover Commission had recommended.
Yet as one grew to know him better one realized that the range of his heart and mind was very wide ... In the later years of his life, when his attention turned increasingly to anthropology as a means of reconstructing the past, it became more than ever clear that he had a very deep feeling for the lives of the simple people of Maharashtra.
Yet its editorial stated that readers should be " absolutely clear on one thing.
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