"The players actually feel they have a certain degree of rights, and they're not afraid to voice them.
Without a certain degree of recognition of rights and fulfilment of duties, contacts can become difficult.
The process works best when scientists stand up -- with integrity, perseverance, and a certain degree of open-mindedness -- right up until it becomes clear that they're wrong.
While the MHP supports a certain degree of Kurdish and minority rights – the party promises in its manifesto that Cemeviler, Alevi houses of worship, will receive state support – they are against the peace process between the government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), arguing that the Kurds need to accept the authority of the Turkish state.
Sivaramakrishnan replied that there seems to be "a certain degree of noise" in the market right now, but she said she finds the interest from bigger players to be "validating".
As a public school wide-boy, of whom there are many in the music business, with a taste for the open road, I've found my niche – where, as long as you do the job right, a certain degree of eccentricity isn't a disadvantage.
That makes no practical difference in terms of rights and responsibilities, but does recognise that religious groups have the right to a certain degree of self-organisation on questions that are theologically important to them, including on the question of religiously-sanctioned marriage.
There is, however, a chicken-and-egg question about the relation between "good government" and economic development, as a certain degree of security with regard to property rights is usually regarded as a precondition of markets (see below).
"Mr. Letterman is a public figure, but like all New Yorkers, he has a right to a certain degree of privacy in his personal life," Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, said in a statement.
Birds have a right to a certain degree of privacy too.
Oh, they won't win any adult political converts (religious maybe,) but when the scales are balanced just right, religion can provide a certain degree of cover, absolving people from or mitigating the reaction to their behavior.
