That, argue his lawyers, is an act of pure reportage and is protected by the first amendment.

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Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, Edward Stevenson described the attack as "an act of pure depravity by small minded thugs".

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They want their country to act for pure motives, and might have refused to support foreign interventions that were forthrightly described as defenses of corporate power.

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An act of pure heroism on his part sets the plot in motion, but this non-traditional film never lets us forget that it is also a violent act and, as such, has an explosive effect on everyone's life.

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Before FDA control, which took hold in the years after the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, the market was largely without barriers.

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He also shows how guilt for a dishonest act is rationalized away so that a pure self-image emerges.

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And this beneficial outcome follows, remember, on the extreme assumption that voters act not out of concern for the greater good, but out of pure self-interest.

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