Inasmuch as emotions are partly constituted by desires, as some cognitivist theorists maintain, they will, as David Hume contended, help to motivate decent behavior and cement social life.
The practice, they contend, helps the S.E.C. and other agencies avoid costly, time-consuming litigation that would tax already-stretched resources.
The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has decided to initiate charges against Laura D. Blackburne, the trial judge who, the police contend, helped a robbery suspect in her courtroom elude arrest.
Holmes shows the impact of such discoveries on writers like Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, whose responses, he contends, helped create a mythology of discovery that is still with us today.
Other evidence awaiting a ruling on admissibility involves allegations of improper tax deductions for hiring a part-time private investigator (and full-time employee in Ms. Pirro's office) who, prosecutors contend, helped a friend of Albert Pirro's evade taxes.
Investigators say one focus of their hunt is Mustafa Ahmad, who they contend helped arrange the financing of the Sept. 11 attacks and plays a broader role in the finances of Mr. bin Laden's group.
But at a time when even college-educated black men might wind up doing menial labor, the porter's job provided the kind of vicarious exposure and connection to powerful people that Larry Tye contends "helped shape today's black middle class and intelligentsia".
The trend in court, Ms. Sommer contended, "just helps give an air of inevitability" to same-sex marriage.
Ownership, he contended, would help break a cycle of poverty and spur a desire to do better.
In turn, she contended, that helped unwind the nuclear proliferation network built by the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.
