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According to Marx capitalists take advantage of the difference between the labour market and the market for whatever commodity the capitalist can produce.
For some, getting by means taking advantage of whatever the corps, or the government might bring their way.
When he's a servant, he will either serve his master devotedly or look for every opportunity to ruin and take advantage of him as he happens to see fit — whatever will gain the greatest advantage for himself and himself alone.
... No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained.
In addition, he produces every kind of such humans as are nicknamed " opportunists " on account of their ability to quickly seize whatever advantage the great seducer Caerus appears to offer them.
After the fasse was turned up, and the talliere and croupiere had looked round the cards on the table, and taken advantage of the money laid on them, the former proceeded with his deal ; and the next card appearing, whether the king, queen, ace, or whatever it might be, won for the player, the latter might receive it, or making paroli, as before said, go on to sept-et-le-va.
The size of the models ( and their clever packaging ) allowed Matchbox to occupy a market niche barely touched by the competition ( and certainly not by Dinky ); the associated price advantage made Matchbox models affordable for every child, and helped establish Matchbox as a household word for small model toy cars — whatever the brand.
Besides these abilities, he can also pluck hairs from his body and blow on them to convert them into whatever he wishes ( usually clones of himself to gain a numerical advantage in battle ).
However, because of its ability to take advantage of whatever small bits of wood that can be scrounged from the forest floor, the additional weight and bulk of packing additional fuel supplies is avoided.
Electric vehicles will take advantage of whatever environmental gains happen when a renewable energy generation station comes online, a fossil-fuel power station is decommissioned or upgraded.
Hindman took advantage of the many local business opportunities and was able to provide his family with whatever they needed.
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law ; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
He was also able to experiment with whatever parts might strike his fancy, and of this privilege he took advantage with greater courage than discretion.
Adams argued that Great Britain had recognized a state of belligerency “ before they Confederacy had ever showed their capacity to maintain any kind of warfare whatever, except within one of their own harbors under every possible advantage it considered them a maritime power before they had ever exhibited a single privateer upon the ocean .” The major United States concern at this point was that the recognition of belligerency was the first step towards diplomatic recognition.
The terms that best render political opposites at the time were “ Oligarch ” and “ Democratic .” Politics as described by Lysias meant that “ no human being is by nature oligarchical or democratic, but whatever constitution brings advantage to an individual is the one he would like to see established .” This passage illustrates that whatever ideology a person chose to support is not based on their core beliefs or principles.
They are too unintelligent to hunt food for themselves, often consuming whatever hapless creature they come across, so food is an advantage they get from working with the Orcs.
However, when the metanalysis tested more specific claims by comparing firstborns against the members of the other groups also occupying the upper performance tier ( i. e., singletons and children with one and only one sibling ), it found that firstborns do not enjoy any advantage over the members of the other groups, suggesting that either a ) firstborns do not enjoy any advantage not also enjoyed by those other groups ' members or at least b ) to whatever extent firstborns do enjoy unique advantages, members of the other upper-tier groups enjoy offsetting advantages not shared by firstborns.
A number of such circumstances are set out below under the following headings: galactic habitable zone, a central star and planetary system having the requisite character, the circumstellar habitable zone, the size of the planet, the advantage of a large satellite, conditions needed to assure the planet has a magnetosphere and plate tectonics, the chemistry of the lithosphere, atmosphere, and oceans, the role of " evolutionary pumps " such as massive glaciation and rare bolide impacts, and whatever led to the still mysterious Cambrian explosion of animal phyla.
The United States was helping the Royal Laotian government achieve whatever advantage possible before working out a settlement with the Laotian Communists and their allies.
The pygmies ... are very low in the human scale, and the suggestion that Benga should be in a school instead of a cage ignores the high probability that school would be a place ... from which he could draw no advantage whatever.
By dipping ordinary tomatoes into vats of toxic waste and then placing them into the chamber, Gangreen uses music to his advantage, as the juke box that is hooked up to the chamber syncs up with the tomato transformation chamber, allowing him to create virtually anything by the use of whatever song he has picked ( Michael Jackson music seems to make tomatoes into a clone of Jackson, the Miami Vice theme seems to make replicas of Don Johnson and seductive music apparently turns tomatoes into beautiful women ).

whatever and resulted
It was revealed that this Ben, whatever he was, remembered being out for the walk that resulted in him getting shot but nothing afterwards, although he concluded that the events leading to him being on that roof were not important.
This resulted in a renewal of the commissions in continuation of the ancient assize jurisdiction, and an announcement was made at the Easter Quarter Sessions in 1921 that " whatever may have happened as a result of a recent case in the Court of Criminal Appeal by authority of this Commission now granted, this Court will continue to exercise this ancient jurisdiction in the same manner as it has done under similar commissions since the days of Charles I.
In certain residential areas, largely rural, large tracts of land may have no services whatever, thus residents seeking services must use a motor vehicle or other transport, so the need for transport has resulted in land development following existing or planned transport infrastructure such as rail and road.
" During the course of its work, the committee members met several individuals, organisations, parties, institutions and NGOs, which resulted in the report stating that " the Act, for whatever reason, has become a symbol of oppression, an object of hate and an instrument of discrimination and high handedness.
So, even the threat of reporting AFRS problems to a higher headquarters often resulted in quick action by local commanders to do whatever they could to solve them.
At the same time, this is at least intuitively problematic, as – whatever the external circumstances are – one situation resulted in an unfortunate death, and the other did not.

whatever and from
As things turned out, however, we have not profited greatly from the lesson: instead of persistently following a national program of our own we have often been satisfied to be against whatever Soviet policy seemed to be at the moment.
He recognized that whatever transformation may be effected in the first stage of an R-stage process, the remaining stages must use an optimal Af-stage policy with respect to the state resulting from the first stage, if there is to be any chance of optimizing the complete process.
`` An optimal policy has the property that whatever the initial state and initial decision are, the remaining decisions must constitute an optimal policy with respect to the state resulting from the first decision ''.
and by deriving legitimate decision backward from whatever may conceivably or possibly or probably result, whether by anyone's doing or by accident, it finds itself driven to inaction, to non-political action in politics and non-military action in military affairs, and to the not very surprising discovery that there are now no distinctions on which the defense of justice can possibly be based.
I was desperate to hold him, to give him whatever in this world he wanted or needed, and to keep him from the clutches of Lucille Warren.
The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).
Many observe the traditional bonfire rites, to whatever extent this is feasible where they live, including the dousing of the household hearth flame and relighting it from the communal fire.
The demand for unissued Holly material was so great that Norman Petty resorted to overdubbing whatever he could find: alternate takes of studio recordings, originally rejected masters, " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and the other five 1959 tracks ( adding new surf-guitar arrangements ), and even Holly's amateur demos from 1954 ( where the low-fidelity vocals are often muffled behind the new orchestrations ).
But whatever were the reasons behind the votes of the majority, the rejection of the Measures made it plain that the Church does not possess full spiritual freedom to determine its worship ..." Stephen Neill points out that the Roman Catholic members of parliament abstained from voting.
The scheme functions slightly differently in each area, and is managed by each branch, but the overall rule is that each participating pub is allowed to purchase beer from whatever brewery they wish, but if it the beer is to be promoted as a ' LocAle ' it must come from a brewery within a predetermined number of miles ( which is set by each CAMRA branch, but generally is around 20 or 25 miles, although, the North London branch has set it at 30 miles ) from brewery to pub door, even if it comes from a distribution centre further away ; in addition, each participating pub must keep at least one LocAle for sale at all times.
Cardinals have in canon law a " privilege of forum " ( i. e., exemption from being judged by ecclesiastical tribunals of ordinary rank ): only the pope is competent to judge them in matters subject to ecclesiastical jurisdiction ( cases that refer to matters that are spiritual or linked with the spiritual, or with regard to infringement of ecclesiastical laws and whatever contains an element of sin, where culpability must be determined and the appropriate ecclesiastical penalty imposed ).
( Science and Health, page 464 ) She also made it clear that people were not to be prevented from seeking whatever help they feel will help them.
" That is, whatever the force of the cogito, Descartes draws too much from it ; the existence of a thinking thing, the reference of the " I ," is more than the cogito can justify.
The World Health Organization recommends this generally for cases of diarrhea from whatever cause.
Dog tags are usually fabricated from a corrosion-resistant metal or alloy such as aluminium, monel or stainless-steel, although, during wartime, they have been made from whatever metals were available.
Comparisons have been made between Doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essays Politics and the English Language in which " unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other doublespeakers of whatever stripe continue to abuse language for manipulative purposes ".
A diaspora ( from Greek διασπορά, " scattering, dispersion ") is " the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland " or " people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location ", or " people settled far from their ancestral homelands ".
In all cases, the term diaspora carries a sense of displacement ; that is, the population so described finds itself for whatever reason separated from its national territory, and usually its people have a hope, or at least a desire, to return to their homeland at some point, if the " homeland " still exists in any meaningful sense.
The reformers agreed provided that they would be " allowed to preach and to teach whatever they learned from the Scriptures.

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