But a still stronger consideration is the importance of adhering to a simple principle, intelligible to the most untaught capacity.

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Mr Brown's snub will be forgiven in the end, Brussels folk see it as an internal problem, intelligible only to the British.

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Actually, by his standards this new picture really is close to intelligible.

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Based in San Francisco, Splunk was created to make machine data accessible to business users in intelligible form without going through the IT shop to get a report.

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Although it has something in common with the Edinburgh, Westminster and Fortnightly Reviews, its 19th-century forerunners in Britain, it was a new creation for America: an intelligent, intelligible publication that got the best minds to explore the world of ideas, bringing thought and weight to bear on the great issues of the moment.

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An antipathy, however mild, to foreignness is indispensable to the creed of localism, which seeks to make our economic worlds more intelligible by shrinking them.

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Many of these podcasts seem to deliver nearly identical information to the journal (essentially serving as a headline and abstract reading service), and when additional information is offered (such as author interviews), it tends to be dry and only intermittently intelligible.

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Now how do you make, work out what's fair bearing in mind, I know from your constitution, that really you're only allowed to talk about whether it's intelligible, whether it makes sense, not whether it's fair or unfair?

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The OFT will be intrigued to learn that nearly all the terms and conditions that the banks currently publish to their customers are, in Mr Justice Andrew Smith's view, in plain and intelligible language.

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