You see pictures of a llama farm in the Andes or an Inuktikut native in Nunavut, and you think "do these guys really need broadband?" There's a grain of truth to this, but really it's a form of entitled bigotry and a refusal to acknowledge the purpose of civilization, which (briefly stated) is to grow and improve human communities.
So, when the City Paper says that Snyder has "publicly acknowledged the improper purposes that in fact undergird this litigation," they are not referring to anything that has shades of grey.
Not only has [Snyder] publicly acknowledged the improper purposes that in fact undergird this litigation, but his ever-shifting explication of why the Commentary is allegedly actionable in defamation further reveals his lawsuit for what it is a pretext for punishing and silencing his critics.
(A former official of the Florida Republican Party recently acknowledged that the purpose of these laws was to hurt Democrats, not to address any real problem).
The voluntariness was acknowledged and the purpose of the study was conveyed, followed by an elaborate explanation of the theoretical framework, principles, and preliminary parameters in describing reading.
Once variation is acknowledged, however, the purpose of a statistical investigation is to understand it, represent it, summarise it and perhaps control it (Franklin et al., 2007; Moore, 1990).
Before the assignment of tasks, the participants underwent a training session, which included the following steps: (1) The voluntariness was acknowledged and the purpose of the study was conveyed, followed by an elaborate explanation of the theoretical framework, principles, and preliminary parameters in describing reading.
We should find a way to acknowledge the common purpose that links the audience and performers: the desire to reach a different perspective from the one we had prior to our engagement with music.
Scholars and previous government reports had acknowledged the C.I.A.'s use of Nazis for postwar intelligence purposes.
As many pro-life activists have acknowledged, the laws serve a simple purpose: return America to a pre-Roe v. Wade environment, where women in certain parts of the country do not have access to safe, legal abortion.
