Not to engage now would be to deny themselves any influence over the future of North Korea.

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It seems perverse, at a time of stringent austerity, for countries to deny themselves a means of controlling spending.

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Indeed, in my experience many anxious patients who would benefit from benzodiazepine treatment are so worried about addiction and other problems that they deny themselves an important potential pathway to well-being.

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Welch also says people shouldn't deny themselves completely.

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It is difficult to deny that the Giants earned the right to enjoy themselves.

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While we may battle over what those things might be, that ideology has never, to the best of my knowledge, been extended to deny help to those who clearly cannot provide for themselves due to a dramatic and overwhelming catastrophe such as what has been experienced in Joplin and the many other American towns devastated by recent weather emergencies.

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