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let and ethical
" Some commentators, recommending a hard stand against the practice, have found therapy inconsistent with a psychologist's ethical duties because " it is more ethical to let a client continue to struggle honestly with her or his identity than to collude, even peripherally, with a practice that is discriminatory, oppressive, and ultimately ineffective in its own stated ends.
Its line " Keep pure your highest ideal, strive ever towards it ; let naught stop you or turn you aside, for mine is the secret door which opens upon the door of youth " is used as a maxim for ethical dilemmas.
* Restrain one's self and yield to others not because one is weak, but to uphold the ethical Tao and let the others have their claim.
Foley has an ethical dilemma-take the stranded ten year old back to civilization, and lose his own wish to die where he was born, or continue his personal mission and let the boy die alone in the wilderness.

let and be
He'd be an idiot to let them stay he thought, but he couldn't send them on, either.
If we let them go, they won't stay away, they'll find men to ride with them and they'll be back.
As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight Of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ): `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''.
let them learn to `` swing '' freely, to let go, to become authentically themselves, and then perhaps civilization will be saved.
If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
An idea, let us say, may be roughly defined as a theme or topic with which our reflection may be concerned.
-- But let him be ready to invent whatever falsehood -- to assail whatever character -- and to prostitute his paper to whatever ends -- and they hug him to their heart.
As a proud man, his prestige would suffer if he let Pike dictate to him through the governor's office, but to lower his prices would be tantamount to an admission that they had been too high in the first place.
As to our action, let us align ourselves with the purpose expressed by Jesus in the Lord's Prayer: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.
if he wanted to leave me something let it be a trinket, nothing else.
Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.
That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.
But because of the peculiar nature of the military situation in Laos, the Soviet leader must be tempted to let things ride -- a course that would appear to cost him little on the spot, but would bog Washington in a tactical mess.
Jesus replied, ' let it be so for the present ; ;
The Macmillan government might be willing to let him go, but he has been dead seventy-eight years and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable.
To avoid suspicion of bigotry, let the hand of vengeance be stayed until the meat-wagon has picked up the twenty-five thousandth corpse ; ;
but let the twenty-five thousand and first butchery be the signal for the arrest of the 50 state highway commissioners.
Then let the whole lot be hanged in a public mass execution on July 4, 1963.
Before memory, too, clouds over, let us make a note or two of what could be seen.
and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.
To be on the safe side I never let Eileen get out of my sight day or night.

let and superseded
Kasavin again praised him in a review for Defiance, writing that " it's rare enough to find a truly memorable main character in a game, let alone two ", and that the game's ensemble cast " some extent superseded the problems in the gameplay ".

let and by
And you stand by like a fool and let him do it ''
It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
He let down the tailgate and was knocked over by the sluice of water.
even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.
But let us not complain of the evils of capitalism by referring to a form that is not truly capitalistic.
`` They'll get them by God and let them bring them down here to me, just let them, God, I'll slice their balls right off.
The canons, in a body, had tried to force him on his deathbed to let them give him the last rites of the Church, but he had died still proclaiming salvation by faith.
In order to simplify the exposition of a typical fully apportioned cost analysis, let us assume the application of the analysis to an electric utility company supplying a single city with power generated by its own steam-generation plant.
To see how important this economy is, let us suppose that there are M operating variables at each stage and that the state is specified by N variables ; ;
As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).
`` It is a duty '', said Hough, `` not to let pass this opportunity of protesting against the methods of taking and printing testimony in Equity, current in this circuit ( and probably others ), excused if not justified by the rules of the Supreme Court, especially to be found in patent causes, and flagrantly exemplified in this litigation.
John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.
Shayne stepped back to let him slump to the ground, and then dived over him through the open door into Harris who was cursing loudly and trying to drag a gun from a shoulder holster, somewhat impeded by the steering wheel.
Docherty said, `` It's okay, Bonfiglio, let him by ''.
They recommended, also, that `` at a fixed hour, let the entire family be assembled for night prayers, followed by a short reading of the Holy Scriptures ''.
He mumbled at her but let himself be led off inside the house, shuffling mightily to make it clear how weak and aged he was and how he was buffeted about by those who still had their wicked strength.
Being an intelligent man, John must have guessed what everyone thought about Edythe, but he never let on by so much as a brave smile.
In The Nemean Lion, he sided with the criminal, Miss Amy Carnaby, and saved her from having to face justice by blackmailing his client Sir Joseph Hoggins, who himself was plotting murder and was unwise enough to let Poirot discover this.
In Milan, however, he impressed his captor with his cultured demeanor and persuaded him to let him go by making it plain that it was not in Milan's interest to prevent the victory of the Aragonese party in Naples.

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