As we think of the long and excruciating pain it must have suffered, we are very likely to say: `` It was a bad thing that the little animal should suffer so ''.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

When we come upon the rabbit and make our remark about its suffering being a bad thing, we presumably make it with some feeling ; ;

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

Yet are not we of the mid-twentieth century, who rightly do not believe there is any such `` thing '' as the devil, just as bad off as they -- only in a different way??

She was talking about him that time, because he had done some bad thing, something she disliked, but `` Afterwards Martin said he was sorry.

" I don't see it as a bad thing for a park ," the assigned National Park Service biologist told a reporter for Smithsonian Magazine ( March 2006 ).

This contrasts with " karmic " ways of thinking in which " bad things don't happen to good people "; to the world, metaphorically speaking, there is no such thing as a good person or a bad thing ; what happens happens, and it may just as well happen to a " good " person as to a " bad " person.

A survey in conducted by the European Commission showed that within the European Union overall, the majority of EU citizens support their country's membership: over 50 % think their country's membership is " a good thing ", and only 15 % think it is " a bad thing ".

In Britain, the survey results stated that those who view the UK's membership of the EU negatively (" a bad thing ") and those who view it as neither positive nor negative (" neither good nor bad ") each constitute 32 % of the population.

He has a bad temper, is unpleasant to the staff and is unashamedly sexist: groping the female staff, dismissing bulimia as a " chick thing " and writing off Brooke's bad moods as PMS.

Hitler dismissed Göring's concerns: " ut after all, he knows quite a lot of important people in England ", leading Göring to reply " Mein Führer, that may be right, but the bad thing is, they know him ".

As an example, if someone kills someone else, such a nihilist might argue that killing is not inherently a bad thing, bad independently from our moral beliefs, only that because of the way morality is constructed as some rudimentary dichotomy, what is said to be a bad thing is given a higher negative weighting than what is called good: as a result, killing the individual was bad because it did not let the individual live, which was arbitrarily given a positive weighting.

The defensiveness has been exaggerated by another bad habit, our tendency to rate the `` goodness '' or `` badness '' of other nations by the extent to which they applaud the slogans we circulate about ourselves.

It always came on, faithfully, just like a radio or juke box, whenever he started to worry too much about something, when the bad things tried to push their way into him.

I feel kind of bad about it ''.

On the theory before us, such relief would be groundless, for in that suffering itself there was nothing bad at all, and hence in its nonoccurrence there would be nothing to be relieved about.

" f one regards the Modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact ".

The emotional effects of anxiety may include " feelings of apprehension or dread, trouble concentrating, feeling tense or jumpy, anticipating the worst, irritability, restlessness, watching ( and waiting ) for signs ( and occurrences ) of danger, and, feeling like your mind's gone blank " as well as " nightmares / bad dreams, obsessions about sensations, deja vu, a trapped in your mind feeling, and feeling like everything is scary.

Utilitarian purposes also bring about forms of crossdressing, such as support hose for men with bad circulation in their legs, or the wearing of bras for men with gynecomastia ( male breasts ).

Positive consequentialism demands that we bring about good states of affairs, whereas negative consequentialism may only require that we avoid bad ones.

Dolenz claimed that he knew something bad was about to happen and said " Can't believe it ..

I have very bad feelings about it ," he later said.

During a social visit to Montag's house, they brag about ignoring the bad things in their lives and have a cavalier attitude towards the upcoming war, their husbands, their children, and politics.

Because of this and the increasingly bad weather the crew decided to return to Canada only to find out that the news about their journey and reported support from the crew of the Confidence had generated sympathy for their protest.

He enjoys destroying things, mauling the mailman, tormenting Odie, kicking Odie off the table ; he also makes snide comments, usually about Jon's inability to get a date ( in one strip, when Jon bemoans the fact that no one will go out with him on New Year's, Garfield replies, " Don't feel bad Jon.

The French traveller Laurent d ' Arvieux described the city in 1659 as " now desolate, and consists only of about fifty poor houses, in bad condition ...

Von Trier's next feature film was a horror movie, Antichrist, about " a grieving couple who retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping a return to Eden will repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage ; but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse ".

In Baldr draumar, Odin has awoken a deceased völva in Hel, and questions her repeatedly about his son Baldr's bad dreams.

There are many myths and misconceptions among music teachers, especially in the Western classical tradition, about " good " posture and " bad " posture.

Sullivan wrote only one grand opera, Ivanhoe ( following the efforts of a number of young English composers beginning about 1876 ), but he claimed that even his light operas constituted part of a school of " English " opera, intended to supplant the French operettas ( usually performed in bad translations ) that had dominated the London stage from the mid-19th century into the 1870s.

Deductions about what behaviors are good or bad may be based in no way on preferences about building relationships, or study of the consequences resulting from the observed behavior.

This presents many advantages as mod authors do not need to worry about crashing the entire game with bad code, clients could show more advanced effects and game menus than was possible in Quake II and the user interface for mods was entirely customizable.

Retrospectively, " networking " of " data " in the Russian language can be traced to the spread of mail and journalism in Russia, and information transfer by technical means came to Russia with the telegraph and radio ( besides, a 1837 sci-fi novel Year 4338, by the 19-century Russian philosopher Vladimir Odoevsky, contains predictions such as " friends ' houses are connected by means of magnetic telegraphs that allow people who live far from each other to talk to each other " and " household journals " " having replaced regular correspondence " with " information about the hosts ’ good or bad health, family news, various thoughts and comments, small inventions, as well as invitations ").

Burton also commented that he was anxious about his role, because he feared that ST: TNG was going to flop: " At the beginning, you know, there was a lot of conversation in the press at what a bad idea this was I thought that since Gene was involved we had a real good shot of making a good show that would carry on in that tradition of Star Trek.

According to William Ringler's study, Stephen Gosson, the theater business in London had become a thriving enterprise by 1577, and, in the opinion of many, a thoroughly bad business.

Gaining outer space and losing `` inner '' space is bad business according to God's standards.

He inherited some income-generating property, but bad investments and failed business ventures resulted in a steady deterioration of the family's financial position.

They favoured social reform, personal liberty, reducing the powers of the Crown and the Church of England ( many of them were Nonconformists ), avoidance of war and foreign alliances ( which were bad for business ), and above all free trade.

Many of the largest banks were hit hard by bad loan portfolios and forced to merge or go out of business.

This was good for business because he was exceptionally quick and efficient in his own well-fitted studio, but it was bad for business when Haarlem fell on hard times.

He detached and rearranged the OLDSMOBILE lettering above the grille to spell out SLOBMODEL as a reminder to himself and co-workers of what " bad " auto design meant to their business.

His father, Michael Lyons, was a successful farmer who afterwards engaged in a butchery and bakery business, but lost this on account of bad health, and subsequently was forced to work as a labourer.

Radio can be a good training ground for beginning drama writers as the words written form a much greater part of the finished product ; bad lines cannot be obscured with stage business.

So I began to think that maybe this acting business was not a bad idea, much as I was very shy about it and certainly without courage regarding it.

He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it ") it also has an element of self-interest about it (" hen one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it.

The company sued Silberkleit in July 2011, and Goldwater filed another lawsuit against her in January 2012, alleging she was making bad business decisions and alienating staff ; she in turn sued him for defamation.

For example, if Berkshire Hathaway's construction materials business has a bad year, the loss might be offset by a good year in its insurance business.

Consumer confidence and sentiment surveys measure how people are doing financially, how they look at the overall economy of the country or business conditions in the country, if they think that the government is doing a good or a poor job and if people think that it is a good or a bad time to buy a car or to buy or sell a house.

However, the economic crisis at the end of the 1920s made business going from bad to worse until the tannery closes.

Felix Yusupov's bad business sense and the Wall Street Crash of 1929 eventually forced the company to shut down.

Logan wrote that he simply had to eliminate pieces of business which director Ferrer had inserted in his staging ; they presumably were intended to sabotage the more sentimental elements of the play that the director considered to be corny and in bad taste.

Park generally believed that slavery in Kansas would be bad for his business interests there.

earlier these places were not reported to deal with foreigners in such a way, however low season and bad business has forced them to resort to such practices.

Rocky, Adrian and Paulie ( Burt Young ) return home to find that Paulie had unknowingly signed a ' power of attorney ' over to Balboa's accountant, who had, in turn, squandered all of Rocky's money on bad business deals ( it is also revealed the accountant had not paid Rocky's income taxes in 6 years ).

Lawrence White and Jerry Markham rejected these claims and argued that products linked to the financial crisis were not regulated by Glass-Steagall or were available from commercial banks or their affiliates before the GLBA repealed Glass-Steagall sections 20 and 32. Alan Blinder wrote in 2009 that he had “ yet to hear a good answer ” to the question “ what bad practices would have been prevented if Glass-Steagall was still on the books ?” Blinder argued that “ disgraceful ” mortgage underwriting standards “ did not rely on any new GLB powers ,” that “ free-standing investment banks ” not the “ banking-securities conglomerates ” permitted by the GLBA were the major producers of “ dodgy MBS ,” and that he could not “ see how this crisis would have been any milder if GLB had never passed .” Similarly, Melanie Fein has written that the financial crisis “ was not a result of the GLBA ” and that the “ GLBA did not authorize any securities activities that were the cause of the financial crisis .” Fein noted “ ecuritization was not an activity authorized by the GLBA but instead had been held by the courts in 1990 to be part of the business of banking rather than an activity proscribed by the Glass-Steagall Act .” As described above, in 1978 the OCC approved a national bank securitizing residential mortgages.

In 1998 Burke filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the result of some " bad business deals.