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Existing legislation does not take diversity of races into account.
An experiment, I would learn much later, when studying the philosophy of science, had to arise from a real dissatisfaction with existing knowledge.
Contemplating the reason for existence means contemplating non-existing things.
I wish all those an unhurried night who want a revision of the existing copyright laws, but actually all the others too.
Keeping existing clients is just as important as finding new ones.
To be loved is to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to stop existing, to love is to endure.
You need to consider the consequences before making any modifications to existing code.
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Everyone must understand that for our nation, which is outgrowing other nations due to our population laws, the existing boundaries are becoming far too restraining!
That other person existing who cares as much about your interests as you do.
As a mere figment, as a mere ghost existing in your wife's mind. I could hardly be said to have any business.
We've only one excuse for existing.
It may flatter you to know that I have broken every existing record on my way from St. Petersburg.
The Transport Act of 1947 only nationalised existing railways.
Every existing thing, is here on purpose.
We can't even produce enough of existing types of bombs, much less begin to work on something completely new and completely unpredictable.
And man, existing alone. seems himself an episode of little consequence.
When I look into a microscope, I see the bacteria, swimming, fighting, existing.
I don't know of one nation, whether existing now or in the past. that was not born in violence.
Our responsibility is to carry out existing orders.
I propose that we double the existing taxes.
After today you will have broken every existing speed record.
Together with a technician from radio station Kootwijk we improved the existing scale-indicators.
After co-existing with them for such a long time, tell me, what are you trying to do to humanity now?
A scant minority of my kind are planning an uprising. I believe they seek to shatter the existing order and create a new world.
He stayed with the design of already existing bills and imitated them exactly.
Reinforcing the existing dam will protect the lowlands that flood each year.
We are indebted to Timothy Ryan, bugler, 5th United States Cavalry. the company's sole survivor, for his diary. the only existing record of this tragedy, and the campaign that followed.
This reconstruction of the film has been based on the only existing material.
Not many, only a few perhaps, but very definitely existing as we are here.
I've made a careful study of the existing contract. between the heirs of the late John Garrison and lawrence white publishing enterprises.
The existing contract is valid, made in good faith.
Ancient settlements and missions no longer existing, ghost towns, ruins.
You only think. of existing the best way you can, without complications.
The only known existing copy. is over 400 years old, you know.
Now, this is the first time that this has been mooted to the works committee, And everything about it constitutes quite definitely, quite definitely. a definite breach of the existing agreements that exist between management and unions.
Only through the violent overthrow of all existing social order.
After today you will have broken every existing speed record. What are your future plans?
And I think you must either admit that the existing order is just and defend your rights, or acknowledge that you're enjoying unjust privileges, and then take pleasure in them.
News and current affairs
Fortunately, there is a multilateral option and an existing precedent.
The pot could be further sweetened by offers to relax existing sanctions and provide a security guarantee if Iran remains non-nuclear.
But Obama also knows that if the existing nuclear states want others to accept tougher restrictions, they will have to cut back their nuclear arsenals.
The existing EU-Turkey customs union should be used as a model.
Certainly, it mollifies China's leaders, offering them a stronger incentive to continue to work within the existing international monetary regime.
Or, for a start, the existing railroad link between the two countries could be made operational.
But for this to be tolerable, the US needs to relieve China of existing risks.
As things stand in Saudi Arabia, the US administration has no credible ally for change outside of the existing regime.
Just as the collapse of the real estate bubble was predictable, so are its consequences: housing starts and sales of existing homes are down and housing inventories are up.
Secretary Abraham said it did not; that his department was only studying adaptations of existing weapons.
The United States, quick to capitalize on regional concerns triggered by China's increasingly muscular self-assertion, has strengthened its military ties with its existing Asian allies and forged security relationships with new friends.
There are ways to improve the existing system, but is something altogether different and better possible?
The more trade unions defend existing wage structures, and the lower productivity growth is, the longer the slump will be.
Suppose that we levy a small tax on existing coal power plants in order to pay for the solar subsidy, and then gradually raise consumers' electricity bills as more and more solar plants are phased in.
In order to gain the breathing space necessary for the reform process to be effective, the Greek government could just announce a simple rescheduling: the due date of all existing public debt is extended by five years at an unchanged interest rate.
Debunking the myths about migration - that most immigrants enter unlawfully, for example, or that immigration displaces existing workers - would be a good place to start.
Disregarding Zimbabwe, a recent and incomplete convert, the 18 countries of the two existing monetary unions have, as intended, benefited from lower inflation than much of the rest of Africa.
Although invention was required, existing scientific methods were used.
Paying down debt on credit cards or mortgages also counts as saving - but increases in the value of existing assets like stocks or real estate do not, even though they increase the value of household wealth.
Every time a government, or a regulator, announces some new control, or a tightening of existing controls, there are threats from bankers that they will pack up and leave town, taking their Porsches and mistresses with them.
Africa needs additional resources, over and above existing aid commitments, to adapt to climate change.
Only one out of every ten Venezuelan companies polled states any intention of making middle or long term investments such as renovating existing industrial plants or building new ones.
The existing institutions were looking increasingly irrelevant in normal times, and ineffective in times of crisis.
Existing Western sanctions, for example, have merely driven the Sudanese regime into the arms of China, Indonesia, and Malaysia.