Verizon had argued that the recession, fierce competition, the telecommunications slump and the substitution of wireless service for land-line service constituted such an external event.
It also contains occasional germs of the subtle drawing-room comedy that in the nineteenth century constituted such a crucial development for the novel.
The Security Council's mandate specifies that it should only deal with matters that are a threat to international peace and security, and the differing sides on the resolution vote took opposite views of whether Zimbabwe constituted such a threat.
The plaintiffs who still held A.I.G. annuities had argued that the decline in the value of the contracts constituted such a loss, but the judge found that "far too speculative and conjectural".
Teacher autonomy in this study constituted such a case.
Others have focused on the inner mechanisms of this process, so to speak, asking how the unconscious desires of women are constituted such that their psychical lives contribute to their gender and sexuality.
