Pioneer Hi-Bred International advanced that argument, in addition to others, seeking dismissal of a patent marking suit in North Carolina.

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Seymour Martin Lipset, a world-class sociologist and no liberal (he was closely associated with the American Enterprise Institute), advanced the argument most cogently some years ago.

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The main argument advanced for not putting options into the profit-and-loss account is perfectly simple: to do so would cost American companies too much.

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The Court also rejected an argument advanced by the Center for Food Safety that planting is the natural consequence of seeds, even though they are sold by a grain elevator with the intention of being processed into food or other products.

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Versions of this argument were advanced before 2000 to justify the markets' extraordinary rise.

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One such argument, advanced by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, suggests that the Navy should be able to get by with fewer supercarriers since no other nation has even one (the dozen carriers operated by other navies are far less capable).

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Defense lawyer Giulia Bongiorno advanced that theory in her own closing argument.

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These systems, used to scout players and create massive databases of information for clubs to analyze, are far more advanced than instant replay and provide quite the double-standard for the argument that baseball is a pure old-fashioned sport judged by the human eye.

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And what times we are living in, with the Large Hadron Collider on the one hand, and on the other, Nick Bostrom's very logical argument that we're actually living in a simulation operated by an advanced future civilization.

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