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She received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance, which gave rise to speculation that it had been given merely to ensure her high-profile presence at the awards ceremony.

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The logical thing to do would be to reduce the scale of the reward — to give merely a free kick in soccer, or fifteen yards in football — but, and this is the "hole," doing that instantly makes tackling the potential scorer the optimal defensive strategy.

The naturalistic jurisprudent eschews all normative guidance unusable by real judges; like his naturalized counterpart in epistemology, he does "not want to give merely idle advice, which humans [including judges] are incapable of following" (Goldman 1978, p.510).

In the warm-glow view of philanthropy, people aren't giving money merely to save the whales; they're also giving money to feel the glow that comes with being the kind of person who's helping to save the whales.

In an opinion written by Judge David L. Gilmore, the court ruled that the "service fee" was actually a "tax masquerading as a fee" and that the label was "given to it merely to avoid the problem presented by enacting such a tax".

Such findings suggest that attention, even when triggered by a simple spatial cue, is not merely given to locations, but also to shapes, colours, and arbitrary learned meanings.

Lustig denies personal autonomy for laudably humane reasons – because he wants to deconstruct the prejudice that obese people have merely given in to "gluttony and sloth".

Despite the differences, the two sides do not seem to have contradicted each other but merely given more weight to the parameters they wanted to highlight to their respective domestic audiences.

And they claim, with Mill and Rousseau, that such concerns are not merely given prior to politics but that they can evolve and improve through the process of discussion and debate in politics.

If this sounds like a defence of Allardyce it is merely to give that part of the story some extra prominence given the Telegraph buried the quotes somewhere near the bottom of the 2,000-word 2,000-wordarticlebroughthatm down.

Some historians have supported Arnold's contention, while others suggest he was merely given the right to march next to Allen.

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