Once again, I spent sleepless hours trying to decide whether opportunity was a necessary or a sufficient cause of crime, becoming confused about the meanings of each, and then deciding that sorting one from the other would still not allow us to claim that opportunity was a cause of crime.
By making such expressions illegal — adding a new category of speech to the very few that are entirely unprotected under the First Amendment — the law raised profound constitutional questions about whether and when the government can decide that some sorts of information have no social value at all.
If tighter policy slows growth too sharply, the government could decide that inflation of any sort is the lesser evil.
"The real issue is at what point will the forces on the ground and the political figures, who are discussing a potential provisional government of some sort, decide that it is in their individual and collective interest to have peacekeeping forces, where and with what makeup," Mr. Rumsfeld said.
I didn't want to decide that until we got into sort of the middle of the season".
The photographer survived, but decided that this sort of work was best left to experienced professionals.
Washington, having now decided that some sort of action must be taken against the dictator, pinned all its hopes on a renegade officer in the Panamanian military who was supposed to lead a coup — despite this individual's clear lack of a following inside the military and among the civilian population.
And since no one has yet decided what sort of military action might be taken against Iraq, it is also premature to decide that European forces will be incapable of contributing to it.
The Whittens had worked in Turkey, Belgium and elsewhere, but when they began searching for a summer home, they decided that Heybeliada "was sort of like the porridge," Mrs. Whitten said.
