And, at least in private, these distinctions are still strong: not only a different language, but arranged marriages and strict laws of purity.
"In addition, given the legitimate legal and governance questions surrounding the eligibility of the members who voted and the adherence, or lack thereof, to the constitution and bylaws, I do not consider today's vote the end, only a different beginning, " Hunter said.
S. 320 was passed by the Senate on 20 February in a form only a slightly different from a bill Congress adopted last October -- only to have it pocket-vetoed by President Bush.
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Was this not what the artists of stained glass in the Gothic cathedrals strove to achieve, only in a different way?
But it'll be, it's the same issue, only in a different landscape.
To me, this only underscores a different, fundamental takeaway: "The Growth Report" is the epitaph for the North-South struggle of a generation ago.
So many people want to do what they did before they got sick or injured but there are only a few different chairs out there to choose from and they are very expensive.
Marietta had a wholesale-only network using a far different business model than the one followed by most publicly owned broadband systems.
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Being forced to work at one and only one company is a different matter though.
Over the last fifty years, only about half a dozen different vehicles have actually been used to carry people into space.
Even with those reforms, some would argue that only a switch to a different system would rid France's judiciary of political influence.
Only days later, a different group of fighters arrived, wearing beards and tunics that looked like the kurtas common in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The Great Recession and the Great Depression are the fallout of the exact same economic phenomenon and are only different in a few (minor) respects.
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Travel. (a) Agency travel is important to the effective functioning of Government and certain activities can be performed only by traveling to a different location.
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Not only must you get a different device, but you'll owe Microsoft an early termination fee that will still bring your total outlay to 70 percent of your service commitment.
Both parties have to register their fingerprints using a biometric scanner that's plugged into the washing machine, which will only work if it scans a different finger than the one used before (you could also trick the machine and use two of your own fingers when you first set things up, but you'd only be fooling yourself right?).
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They have a different mentality: they only think of having a job contract, a stable job.
To prove the point, his previous London venture, Penny University, was a six-seat coffee bar that only served a changing menu of three different filter coffees.
There will be so many other people there and it will have a totally different feel to it, a different buzz which will only come from hosting the Olympics.
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"Happy Birthday" would have a radically different effect if the bar contained only a handful of grumpy drinkers who were scattered randomly about the stage.
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Pratibha Singh, a lawyer for the Indian generic drug manufacturer Cipla, which makes a version of Glivec for less than a tenth of the original drug's selling price, said the court ruled that a patent could only be given to a new drug, and not to those which are only slightly different from the original.
Savings begin in earnest only next year, when a different government with ideas of its own is likely to be in office.
There was one thing that took me nearly a dozen different jobs to learn and then only after a couple of months reflection.
Misreporting becomes a bona fide issue only when the different set of numbers filed in China was filed before an agency whose mandate warrants a requirement that numbers be accurate (such as the State Administration of Taxation) and that the differences be unexplainable by differing U.S. and Chinese accounting rules.
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What I want to do is talk about a very different country, a country that not only has much more onerous business regulations and a much larger, nastier, and more corrupt government, but a country that has also had robust employment growth over the past two and a half years.
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However, after a bit of time -- about a day or two -- we got used to the fact that it's really just a regular mouse that not only sways in all different directions, but also floats your hand in the air a bit.
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Recent polls show the yes votes (to recall Mr Davis and elect a different governor) only narrowly edging the noes.
Not only do I beg to sing a different tune, but I would rather pour boiling water directly onto my eardrums than hear any so-called football anthem.
David Rae, head of the convenience stores' lobby group, says that in many areas the only choice will soon be between a different sized outlet of one of the major supermarket chains.
Earlier Tony Blair's official spokesman acknowledged the disagreements within NATO were serious but stressed only three of the 19 allies had a different view.
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