Property restitution has been a widespread fact of life in Germany's New Bundesländer the former German Democratic Republic or East Germany—since unification in 1990.
John Locke in his Essays on the Law of Nature argued that the widespread fact of human conscience allowed a philosopher to infer the necessary existence of objective moral laws that occasionally might contradict those of the state.
We have been saying for longer than we can remember that the widespread (in fact, nearly unanimous) belief that corporate earnings must decline sharply is wrong.
Differently from Western countries, Japan did not experience a time when the horse carriage was widespread – in fact, the Tokugawa government restricted the use of wagons and carts until 1862 (see e.g. [27]).
Now, we're not saying this is a widespread problem in fact, reps at Palm claimed this was the first time they'd seen it happen but it was a little disconcerting.
It was becoming clear that the discontent with Edward's reign was widespread, a fact that Warwick could exploit.
This is a life support measure that many small family businesses are taking in order to fight the widespread and accepted facts of Wal-Mart devastating their businesses.
SO will Congress answer the question of whether Enron's problems are, in fact, widespread?
Despite these suspicions, researchers have found it hard to actually prove that earnings manipulation was in fact widespread among publicly traded companies.
Other research has confirmed that this sentiment is widespread, despite the fact that, well, we don't really feel any gloomier on that day.
