"The issue for the court was whether it should be inferred that there was a common enterprise to which the appellant agreed prior to the attack to carry out a shooting attack with intent to kill, " Sir Declan pointed out.

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Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.

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"When people today agree to volunteer information, they have no idea what can be inferred from that information, " she said.

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The lake is said to retain an excellent record of past climate change which can be inferred from the types and abundance of algae and other organic matter found in its bed muds.

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"While no causality can be inferred, this is aligned with the view that self-made wealth is more likely to be associated with aggregate economic dynamism, " they argue.

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Each witness would still be subject to cross-examination, and the difference between what he heard and saw and what he presumed or inferred would be made clear.

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