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In a society where everything is for sale, Marlowe is the only man who cannot be bought.
We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.
they are priceless even though they cannot be recorded on a ledger page ; ;
For the answer cannot be derived from any socially cohesive element in the disrupting community.
This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.
He borrows the insights of psychology to improve his impaired vision but cannot bring to his work the distinctive vision that should be a novelist's own.
the future weight of informal factors cannot be so easily assessed.
Most now admit that Bede, Gildas, Nennius and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles cannot be the infallible guides to early English history that Guest, Freeman and Green thought them to be.
Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.
But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.
State Controller Arthur Levitt, on the other hand, cannot effectively deny that he has chosen to be the candidate of those party leaders who as a rule have shown livelier interest in political power than in the city's welfare.
I submit that it cannot be dismissed simply by saying we are not facing the facts of life.
According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.
A more dangerous formula for national frustration cannot be imagined.
This is an ethical demand which cannot be evaded or glossed over by talking exclusively of weapon superiority or even of the evil of Communism.
This prime element of the truth may be stated as follows: Under prevailing policy, the U.S. can take the initiative against the Right, but cannot take the initiative against the Left.
But one cannot escape the suspicion that all this non-stop harping on the misdeeds of the long liquidated `` anti-party '' group would be totally unnecessary if there were not, inside the party, some secret but genuine opposition to Khrushchev on vital doctrinal grounds, on the actual methods to be employed in the `` transition to communism '' and, last but not least, on foreign policy.
Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.
Now, more than five years later, I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier.

cannot and prevented
To light industry, the economies of being on one floor are much slighter, but efficiency engineers usually believe in them, and manufacturers looking for ways to cut costs cannot be prevented from turning to efficiency engineers.
The time to arrive to sufficient certainty about the mechanism of life conception must have been very long, but this time length cannot have prevented the implications of this acquired certainty from being extremely dramatic.
The design of the microprocessor architecture on practically all modern systems ( except some embedded systems ) involves a security model ( such as the rings model ) which specifies multiple privilege levels under which software may be executed ; for instance, a program is usually limited to its own address space so that it cannot access or modify other running programs or the operating system itself, and a program is usually prevented from directly manipulating hardware devices ( e. g. the frame buffer or network devices ).
Archeologists are concerned that they are being prevented from studying ancient remains which cannot be traced to any historic tribe.
Within mainstream economics, many believe that bubbles cannot be identified in advance, cannot be prevented from forming, that attempts to " prick " the bubble cause financial crises, and that instead authorities should wait for bubbles to burst of their own accord, dealing with the aftermath via monetary policy and fiscal policy.
From the New York Daily Tribune of November 30, " We insist that they cannot be prevented, and that the attempt must not be made.
In 1905, The New York Times reported that he called it " a fight whose strategy and ethics are those of war ", that violation of rules cannot be prevented, that " the weaker man is considered the legitimate prey of the stronger " and that " no sport is wholesome in which ungenerous or mean acts which easily escape detection contribute to victory.
For instance, the United States constitution is silent on the question of whether states are allowed to secede from the Union ; however, after the secession of several states was forcibly prevented in the American Civil War, it has become generally accepted that states cannot leave the Union.
His frequent, close contacts with leaders of the Nazi regime cannot have left Haj Amin any doubt as to the fate which awaited Jews whose emigration was prevented by his efforts.
The right to self-defence is limited to situations where the immediate threat of violence cannot be prevented by those authorized to do so ( in practice, because no police force is present at the moment of the threat ).
M13 cannot be prevented from reaching the right side, and on the left, black can use the threat of connecting to the H8 group.
New cysts cannot absolutely be prevented from forming ; however, surgical or laser removal of a cyst makes it less likely that a new one will form at the same site.
They do not screen for disorders arising from dominant gene mutations, as these cannot be prevented by informed mate selection.
His successor, Charles Clarke, said that ID cards " cannot stop attacks ", in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, and added that he doubted it would have prevented the atrocities.
They are physically prevented from leaving the town, the Earps cannot be pacified and the Sheriff refuses to interfere apart from suggesting the tactic, unacceptable to the Enterprise crew, of ambushing the Earps.
Most other causes cannot be prevented.
This disease cannot be currently prevented, but early treatment can prevent some damage and symptoms.
* DNA cannot be totally prevented from undergoing somatic replication corruption ; this means that cancer, which is caused by somatic mutations, can never be completely eliminated by natural selection.
A costly landslip immediately south of the station at Cheddleton has always prevented the installation of a passing loop and therefore the development of the original down platform ( which cannot carry passenger trains as a result ).
Research demonstrates that offenders cannot be literally prevented from committing crimes by using CPTED.
When a person sits in this room he cannot see the water though the island is not above a stone's cast over: nor is he prevented from this by shade: for, except for six or eight walnut trees and a few orange trees in tubs there is not a leaf upon the island ; it arises entirely from the river running very much below its banks.
It is a fact that slips cannot be prevented, but none of the GOMS models allow for any type of error.
Since he cannot honorably criticise his employer while serving as a butler, Beach makes the painful decision to resign first, but is fortunately prevented from doing so by his master's decision to shave, in " Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best ".

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