And with that Colombia finds itself suddenly contemplating a wide-open election.The court ruled by seven to two that the re-election law would have violated the spirit of the constitution as well as being vitiated by irregularities and "substantial violations of democratic principles".
Still, methodological analyses have concluded that "although the opt-in Internet sample we analyze does have some bias, the bias is probably not so great as to vitiate the gains of inexpensive, large and targeted samples that the Internet methodology makes possible" (Hill et al. 2007).
And when they did mention disability, their purpose almost always has been to invoke a limiting case (Silvers et al. 1998, 3), for example, babies so deformed as to vitiate the value of human life (Kuhse and Singer 1986), or adults too dependent and noncontributing to be parties to the social contract (Rawls 1985).
The cheering conclusion of this romantic subplot struck me as a device that vitiated some of the power of what had come before.
Thus began popular culture's long march through the nation's institutions, as gatekeepers beyond broadcasting slowly vitiated their mission of improvement to accommodate the appetites of the multitude.
There must be room for improvement [ 61], but the relevant target must be achievable: if the target set is too much of a "stretch goal", then the hospital or area may assume that there is no point attempting to reach the target and the whole point of the incentive is vitiated: a principle described as the 'rule' having 'some expected usefulness' [ 62].
"Labyrinth" incorporates allusions to the history of political corruption and violence, though the effect is vitiated by such antic distractions as a wafting Casper the Friendly Ghost in the panoramic paintings that surround it.
But the politicization of usage contributes to its trivialization, and tends to vitiate it as an exercise in intellectual discrimination.
As a character, Newcastle had become blurred beyond recognition, vitiated not by poor research but by poor editorial judgment.
It is as if the scale of death and suffering had vitiated the idea of a good God not so much by outright rejection as by forcing another rhetoric and language of explanation.
Upon contemplating the processes of vegetation and the "agitation" of seas and lakes, Priestley envisioned the means by which a benevolent nature restored the "common air" that had been "vitiated and diminished" by such "noxious" processes as combustion and respiration.
