"Oakes argued that 'fighting terrorism is obviously important' but added a qualification: 'accountability journalism is important too'," the editorial said.
But he added a qualification that went to the heart of the power that Mr. Murdoch has amassed through his newspaper and television holdings, which command an imposing share of the British market.
In Grutter v. Bollinger, the first Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of affirmative action in higher education, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor added a qualification unseen in any other major constitutional interpretation.
Then he added a qualification: "It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading — the sum total of our experience".
"You don't need a printer in your car computer," he explained and paused a second, perhaps imagining what he might do with a printer in the back seat, and then added a qualification to the next sentence: "If you don't have a network, you don't need the Windows fire wall".
I would add a further qualification to the progressive dilemma.
Let me add a few immediate qualifications to that.
There is a simple formula for descriptions of Donald Trump: add together a qualification, a hyphen, and the word "fascist".
But while declaring himself "ready to defend the flag of the common country against the common foe," he added a crucial qualification.
IN announcing on Monday that her daughter Bristol was five months pregnant, Sarah Palin, John McCain's choice for a running mate, added a quick qualification that might, in another era, have eliminated the potential for embarrassment: The 17-year-old girl was to be married to the 18-year-old father of the baby.
