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The logic of slippery slope arguments, most charitably construed, is that there are certain risks that might accompany a policy, and that those risks are so grave, and/or society's capacity reliably to counteract them so limited, that it would be better not to enact the policy.

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So badly construed is this law that some of it will surely never happen.

Few people would argue that health, even if broadly and positively construed, is the only thing that matters in life.

A natural, though ultimately unsuccessful, reply is that construing something as the best instance of its kind that it can be does not require taking that kind to be good.

You've convinced us, certainly, that there is a disagreement about how it should be construed, and that disagreement is articulated by the dissents in the most recent case.

This has been construed to be an admission that Hamas is "deliberately using peaceful civilians at the protests as cover and cannon fodder for their military operations".

One way to construe this relationship is that an utterance reflects a state of mind.

"I regret that some word that I used was construed as insensitive, that was never my intention," Jaitley told the NDTV news channel.

Because local ecosystems may have gradational borders coinciding with gradual changes in physical and chemical factors of the environment (called ecoclines), instead of always having sharp borders defined by steep environmental gradients (ecotones), some ecologists have decided that local multispecies assemblies cannot be construed as entities that are anything like an individual organism.

But there is little reason for thinking that this is always so at least, if analysis is construed as whatever it is that philosophers do to solve their problems.

Given the global prevalence of rock music, broadly construed, it is plausible that song is the most common kind of music listened to in the contemporary world.

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