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These consumers could ostensibly reject costlier e-books.

The sexual liberation of the 1660's had ostensibly rejected traditional restrictions, but in fact the influence of modesty had hardly departed.

Those defenses of elite rule are the more notable because, in some cases, their authors ostensibly rejected the ancient assumption of unequally distributed capacities in favour of some notion of natural equality.

The fact that this was done After Schwartzman's offer of purchase ostensibly had been rejected, and that after he took the car, plaintiff's manager 'found' his check and immediately deposited it raises troublesome questions as to whether or not plaintiff had in fact intended to convey a voidable title dependent on whether the check cleared.

(In fact, Wainwright's piece was originally intended for the Met; Gelb rejected it, ostensibly because of the French libretto).

It looked like the uniform of a dull college, and the Olympic ruling bodies rejected it, ostensibly on legal grounds (it's used for fund-raising) but obviously on aesthetic ones.

(In fact, Wainwright's piece was originally intended for the Met; Gelb rejected it, ostensibly because of the French libretto). The "Traviata," a Jonathan Miller production borrowed from the Glimmerglass Festival, looked anemic compared with the Met's current staging of the opera, a visually bold though emotionally frigid affair, directed by Willy Decker.

When Hogarth presented the piece to Grosvenor, he rejected it, ostensibly because it was "so striking and inimitable, that the constantly having it before one's eyes would be too often occasioning melancholy ideas to arise in one's mind"; in disgust, Hogarth released him from their bargain.

The fact that new taxes for an ostensibly progressive cause can be rejected by a 60 to 40 margin in a city where Republicans have trouble getting 20 percent of the vote says more about voter fatigue with poorly-thought-out ideas than it does about shifting political loyalties.

In line with this, our recent study suggested that flycatchers tended to reject the choices of ostensibly successful tits when the clutch was covered [ 11].

Rejecting excessive ornament because it ostensibly encouraged the sin of pride, Shaker furniture makers focused on overall form and proportions, developing creative solutions such as asymmetrical drawer arrangements and multipurpose forms to add visual interest without resorting to pure decoration.

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