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So there is no reason to fear that globalisation itself threatens traditional non-western cultures, such as Islam, except in so far as individual freedom threatens them.
ECONOMIST: The hubris of the West
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If the sinking were stopped by adding fresh water (a deus ex machina often invoked to change the climate), the Gulf Stream would hardly care except in so far as the wind system changed too.
ECONOMIST: On climate change, Bretton Woods, the Pope's speech | The
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If that is correct, 83% of those who do not pay income tax don't really fit Mr Romney's characterisation, except in so far as his argument is that people who don't pay income tax aren't impressed by promises of income tax cuts.
BBC: Mitt Romney scorns Obama voters
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Actually, as far as everybody else in the world knew, except for the few people who knew about the existence of the unrecorded warranty deed, Mercury still owned the property.
FORBES: Sale Of Hartford Property For Delinquent Real Estate Taxes Whets Appetite For Rest Of The Story
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It's rather embarrassing for a government committed to cutting the cost of ministerial travel and evokes memories of John Prescott's infamous decision to let the car take the strain on a short journey between his hotel and the 1999 Labour conference in Bournemouth: except the man known as "Two Jags" did travel more than twice as far - 250 metres.
BBC: No 10 trip earns Welsh Secretary "Jones the Jag" tag