But constitutionally, they are as much a part of France as Normandy or Provence.
They are just as much a part of the game as Sunday and Monday night showdowns.
Band leader Craig Minowa says the artists are just as much a part of the group as their musicians.
To dedicated fans of horology, the watch book is as much a part of collecting as the timepieces themselves.
Kindness and generosity proved to be as much a part of Moroccan custom as supersweetened mint tea and calls to prayer.
But he and she are as much a part of the fabric of English history as the monarchs, lawmakers and political leaders they defied.
It seems that coffee houses, underground music scenes and elaborate piercings are as much a part of technological development as universities and research centers.
Fizz-fuelled Hollywood parties in the 1930s imbued the drink with glamour, but today Champagne is as much a part of popular culture as high society.
Purists argue that implementing instant replay and removing human error and judgment would take away an element that is as much a part of the game as anything else.
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"Sports stars need to remember that being a positive role model is as much a part of their job as making lay-ups, hitting home runs or scoring touchdowns, " he said.
Guarding the entire course is not just impossible but undesirable, because the cheering fans are as much a part of Patriots' Day as the olive wreaths that crown the winners' heads.
The advocacy of positions on behalf of people in the country before the Congress is as much a part of free speech, I believe, as what we're doing here on NPR.
As a result, financial repression, say economists and fund managers at Schroders in London, is becoming as much a part of the new normal as is slow growth and deleveraging.
And although their business will shrink and their share price correct after CADE makes its case, these names are brands that are as much a part of Brazil as Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
His latest speech on the debt ceiling crisis and his speeches on the fiscal cliff have shown him to be as much a part of the broken system in Washington as anyone else.
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Some of the trees, which are as much a part of south Mississippi's heritage as the antebellum homes scattered along the coastline, are estimated to be as much as 500 or 600 years old.
If a prototype developed by Nokia Research and the Helsinki Institute of Information Technology ever translates to production, however, it'll be as much a part of personal phone conversations as a soft voice or a cheeky text message.
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Despite its inherent illogic, the notion that last week's massive, cascading electrical blackout was a "wake-up" call seems now to have become as much a part of the political landscape as has the effort to assign blame for this costly man-made disaster.
I'm convinced that the future of entertainment places us squarely in the middle of the action, just as much a part of the story as our children are today when they strap on a holster and play cops and robbers or pick up that Barbie and ask us to be Ken.
It's unlikely that broadcast crews will reach to their pockets for live coverage solutions before anything else, but the BBC is actively testing Dejero and other apps that could make smartphones as much a part of the field reporting arsenal as a camcorder and an eye for a good story.
The absence or otherwise of those answers is likely to play as much a part in the fate of Mr Duncan Smith as the undoubted discontent currently being expressed.
" It describes trauma care as a "part of a much larger issue of unmet health needs.
Today, it is as much an accepted part of a Bogota Sunday as a tamale (a local favourite of rice, chicken, pork, egg and vegetables wrapped in a palm leaf) for breakfast.
On the other hand, less demand for dedicated devices had helped Amazon, which already established a strong brand presence with Kindle as part of a much larger personal-cloud ecosystem.
It is unclear at this stage how much of this increase in value is attributable to the infrastructure and amenities built by the government as part of a TPS, and how much is simply a consequence of zoning conversion that brings new fringe land into the urban land market.
And I have to say I don't think of myself as so much as a storyteller, or at least not in my earlier part of my life.
As much as I didn't want to be a part of this club and I didn't ask to be here, I'm really happy that I have this community that Jonny has built.
She had photographed much of her work as part of her creative process, a fact that leaves her with mixed emotions.
And while the FAO admits that some developing countries will be able to expand their arable land by as much as 12 percent, the downside is that a "considerable part" of this extra farmland will be a direct result of deforestation.
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