| He was afraid of being caught before he could accomplish his purpose, but behind this was a vaguer but larger fear of the awfulness of his crime. |
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| The problem is as follows: after that the Rules of Procedure are much vaguer. |
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| We say instead that it is about something much vaguer called climate change. |
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| The former vice-presidential candidate wants a cut of at least 40,000 troops. Yet most utterances from the Democrats are considerably vaguer. |
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| What these three words probably have in common is that, the closer one tries to get to their essential meaning, the vaguer they become. |
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| In the vaguer forms of qualitative research, reference to a model can disappear altogether, as we demonstrated in our case studies. |
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| In practice, this item would entail a relaxation of the objective criteria in favour of vaguer, politically negotiable criteria. |
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| The vaguer the notion, the more difficult it is to build political momentum. |
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| However, the bill also contains slightly vaguer measures that, according to the bill, would be clarified by regulations. |
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| Indeed, vaguer but still substantial promises were made to Macedonia, which had never previously been considered as a potential member. |
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| Most of them, I believe, are altogether vaguer, more non-committal, not so much insisting on the reality of heaven as refusing to believe in the finality of death. |
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| But Mr Bush has been vaguer about the grey area between torture and more moderate pressure. |
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| In the new Lisbon Strategy, the reference to sustainable development was maintained, but was vaguer and less concrete. |
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| Wasn't it the famous American physicist Richard Feynman who used to quip that the vaguer a scientific concept, the more useful it is? |
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| Attitudes are much vaguer when it comes to the social implications in developed and transition countries, which are the main focus of our reflections here. |
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| The first questions are no vaguer than their replacement. |
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| He is vaguer about Africa, where a motorway and railway would have to be built to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, and on to Kenya's Nairobi and Sudan's Khartoum, if it is really to help perk up the continent's economy. |
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| The proposal to reimburse only the actual travel costs incurred was not included in the vote, as a much vaguer proposal was first adopted on a study into travel costs. |
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| It is modelled on some sections of the earlier agreements in form and structure, but is generally vaguer and less binding, containing general declarations without specific deadlines or implementation modalities. |
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| Do we imagine that this is a kingdom which is quite like earthly monarchies, only a little bit vaguer, a little bit more «spiritual», between inverted commas, and a little bit less demanding than real? |
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| We hope that the Federal Supreme Court will succeed in providing clear definitions to the vaguer notions of the Act, and in unifying the case law rendered by its different sections. |
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| Finally, the delegation emphasized that the operational guidelines should facilitate the implementation of the articles of the Convention, and not merely echo its vaguer points. |
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| Phonaesthesia refers to the vaguer phenomenon whereby families of words with shared phonemes sometimes evoke related meanings in a not-quite-echoic manner. |
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