The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

Man, we are told, is endowed with reason and is capable of distinguishing good from bad.

Both sides agreed that the theater must stand a moral test, but they could not agree on whether the poets were a good or a bad influence.

The new City Charter, which should get a Yes vote as Question No. 1 on Nov. 7, would not make a good Mayor out of a bad one.

From necessity, they are also inspired by the `` hard-sell '' attitude of the sponsor, so, finally, it is the sponsor who must take the responsibility for the good or bad taste of his advertising.

The prevailing official attitude then seemed to be that fallout, if not exactly good for you, might not be much worse than a bad cold.

Originals are not necessarily good and adaptations are not necessarily bad.

Hence all teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of years are paid the same salary.

He knew the faces of all, hairy or shaven, old or young, fat or thin, suffering or hardened, sad or gay, good or bad.

As in choosing a wife, it is only sensible to consider also how appealing a pool is likely to be in bad weather as well as in good.

Throughout history, the man who showed superior performance has become the commander of others -- for good or bad.

The old shop adage still holds: `` A good mechanic is usually a bad boss ''.

If it could be shown that judgments of good and bad were not judgments at all, that they asserted nothing true or false, but merely expressed emotions like `` Hurrah '' or `` Fiddlesticks '', then these wayward judgments would cease from troubling and weary heads could be at rest.

On that view, nothing good or bad happened in the case until I came on the scene and made my remark.

Various factors in the setting can still be of great advantage in making the first intercourse a good rather than a bad memory for one or both.

For example, some contemporary writing tends to fuse the `` good guys '' and the `` bad guys '', to portray the weak people as heroes and weakness as a virtue, and to explain ( or even justify ) asocial behavior by attributing it to deterministic psychological, familial, and social experiences.

much of it has continued to be used over the years and the heart of it -- good guys and bad guys in the old West -- pretty well dominated television toward the end of the 1950's.

Clerfayt of `` Heaven Has No Favorites '' resembles Portago only in that he is male and a race-driver -- quite a bad race-driver, whereas Portago was a good one.

There was good fortune and there was bad and Philip Spencer, in handcuffs and ankle irons, knew it to be a truth.

A man with insomnia had better avoid bad dreams of that kind if he knew what was good for him.

The audience, according to Edward Cushing, responded with " a demonstration of enthusiasm impressively genuine in contrast to the conventional applause which new music, good and bad, ordinarily arouses.

Most types of karmas, with good or bad results, will keep one in the wheel of samsāra ; others will liberate one to nirvāna.

Motivation usually makes the difference between " good " and " bad ," but motivation also includes the aspect of ignorance ; so a well-intended action from an ignorant mind can easily be " bad " in that it creates unpleasant results for the " actor.

" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.

First, let us realize that whatever good this set-up achieved in earlier times, now the corporation per se cannot take economic leadership.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

`` We have good times ''.

`` She was mighty good to you past times, an' this'll fetch her ''.

When the CCITT ( now ITU-T ) was standardizing ATM, parties from the United States wanted a 64-byte payload because this was felt to be a good compromise in larger payloads optimized for data transmission and shorter payloads optimized for real-time applications like voice ; parties from Europe wanted 32-byte payloads because the small size ( and therefore short transmission times ) simplify voice applications with respect to echo cancellation.

The name appears to have been derived from Yussuf ben-Serragh, the head of the tribe in the time of Mohammed VII of Granada, al-Mustain, who did that sovereign good service in his struggles to retain the crown of which he was three times deprived.

Passivhaus building codes in particular bring unusually good interior air quality, because the buildings change the air several times per hour, passing it though a heat exchanger to keep heat inside.

Nahum 1: 7 ( NIV ) The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble.

The Christsen family supported settlement farming families through hard times and these good deeds were acknowledged with the naming of Christsen Park at Bargara Beach.

At this time there were two customary means of selecting a leader: having a hereditary leader for general purposes, and choosing someone with good qualities in times of crisis or opportunities for action.

It does not teach that choosing good is impossible-only at times more difficult.

In more modern times, Piers Anthony's Xanth books, Robert Asprin's MythAdventures of Skeeve and Aahz books, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, and Tom Holt's books provide good examples, as do many of the works by Christopher Moore.

By the late 1970s the good times were over for both downtown and local businesses and industries.

Ishi's imperturbable good humor alone made the work possible, though it also at times added to my exasperation ".

Certainly Eugene's appearance was not impressive – " He was never good looking …" wrote the Duchess of Orléans, " It is true that his eyes are not ugly, but his nose ruins his face ; he has two large teeth which are visible at all times.

The king encouraged farming, reclaimed marshes, stored grain in good times and sold it in bad times.

Between 1812 and the Panic of 1819, times were good.

He has hunted with his good friend Hank Williams Jr. several times.

This would have limited the quantity of artillery and tanks that could be transported and restricted operations to times of good weather.

The Eagles had a good 1961 season and then fell on hard times in 1962.

The Pakistan Armed Forces have also taken over the Pakistani government several times since independence mainly on the pretext of lack of good civilian leadership, whom most Pakistanis regard as corrupt and inefficient.

The hope is that by repeating the message several times it will cause the consumer to be more likely to purchase the product because he / she already connects it with a good emotion and a positive experience.

Old school rap ( 1979 – 1984 ) was " easily identified by its relatively simple raps " according to Allmusic, " the emphasis was not on lyrical technique, but simply on good times ", one notable exception being Melle Mel, who set the way for future rappers through his socio-political content and creative wordplay.

Loop-free distance-vector protocols are as robust and manageable as naive distance-vector protocols, but avoid counting to infinity, and have good worst-case convergence times.