Politicians love them because they constitute a tax that never gets called a tax.
Early film critic Siegfried Kracauer taught us to attend seriously to film fantasies, however hackneyed, because they constitute collective daydreams that reveal secret hopes.
Yet last week, the US Department of Labor declared the Raiders exempt from having to offer its cheerleaders the minimum wage because they constitute "seasonal amusement".
The accusations involving Mr. Fastow are probably the most damning in the indictment, primarily because they constitute the most blatant potential violations.
He drew a series of 16 explicit scenes that became known as I Modi – "the positions", because they constitute a visual encyclopedia of heterosexual intercourse.
The sunny-siders are somewhat interesting to James, if only because they constitute a type that is almost completely foreign to him.
Earthfill and rockfill dams are usually grouped together as embankment dams because they constitute huge mounds of earth and rock that are assembled into imposing man-made embankments.
Cultural factors have the broadest influence, because they constitute a stable set of values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviours that have been learned by the consumer throughout life.
And e-mail messages can be particularly potent because they constitute what social scientists call "asynchronous" communication, meaning that exchanges between people do not happen in real time, unlike face-to-face or telephone conversations.
"Very few campus surveys have produced statistically reliable estimates for those who identify as TGQN because they constitute a very small percentage of the population," the researchers wrote in their summary.
Partly, this is because they constitute a smaller pool than they did in Mr Blair's day over 14.1m Britons had voted Tory in 1992, compared with 10.7m in 2010.
