What HSBC has been fined for is something which in the eyes of the bureaucracy is worse: and in the eyes of pretty much everyone else less bad.
And I think that says a lot about how far Assad has fallen in the eyes of the world, not to mention in the eyes of his own people.
But even after they married in 2007 in Toronto, some 40 years into their courtship, the two women were not "like most couples" in the eyes of the state of New York, where they lived, nor in the eyes of the U.S. government, which under the Defense of Marriage Act mandates that a spouse, as legally defined, must be a person of the opposite sex.
But change the rules, make there be any question of the qualification of the person so promoted, however understandable the goal of more rapidly effecting that change, is immoral, in that you deprive the person of the fullness of their own legitimate achievement, in their own eyes and in the eyes of everyone looking at them.
The latest generation of electricity pylons are, in the eyes of some, at least, things of beauty in their own right.
Despite all this, in the eyes of others in the village, the old Bousque woman remained the mistress of the house.
If Mr Obama's luck holds, the passionate intensity of the conservatives might just cancel out that of the progressives and so affirm, in the eyes of the majority in the centre, his own claim to be reaching for precious common ground in the tricky terrain of divided government.
Their credibility, in the eyes of most of those present in court, including, it seems, the judge, has been systematically shredded.
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In 2012 most corporations fell far short of the mark in the eyes of their stakeholders and ran the risk of losing their social license.
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Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Monroe, and Franklin were in the eyes of Johnson the greatest collection of minds in one place in the history of mankind.
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In the eyes of many in the world, this every-4-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.
This week's Budget saw the Government act bravely in the eyes of its own supporters, but rashly in the opinion of critics.
In my eyes, I think he did, but in the eyes of his friends he didn't.
The caution of Egypt's president is legendary, and in the eyes of many, his latest move comes less in response to popular pressure than as an attempt to pre-empt mounting criticism from Washington.
Sachin Tendulkar joined the ranks of mortals in the eyes of Indian cricket fans.
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That something is the unmistakable look of anguish in the eyes of all of these commentators, the angriest and toughest included.
Only time will tell if the number of consumers who flaunt Equus badges can change the meaning of prestige in the eyes of car-buyers.
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He believes the exhibit may raise the level of games in the eyes of people who overlook how important video games are to our culture and society.
Besides being cheap, these have the advantage that previous research has shown that a male's level of flashiness in the eyes of a female can be manipulated by putting coloured rings on his legs.
During the turbulent 1990s, Brazilian firms sought to float on exchanges abroad, calculating that a foreign listing would give them access to deeper pools of money and an implicit stamp of approval in the eyes of investors.
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The DA has been through numerous re-branding exercises since its origins in the anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and 80s, but in the eyes of some people it remains a "white" party, led by a white woman, Helen Zille, and somehow out of touch with the core values of black South Africans.
Time would change this view of the world in the eyes of British mapmakers.
Others are concerned by the almost superhero status of Barack Obama in the eyes of many people.
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The party to flinch first would be the one that is less certain of its esteem in the eyes of the electorate.
We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American, she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.
Despite the assertions of loyalty and job security put out by the City hierarchy regarding their manager Roberto Mancini, the Italian could be in danger of bankrupting himself in the eyes of the Eastlands faithful through his continuing failure to produce a side whose sparkle matches the bling it took to recruit them.
The leaders of non-Bolivarian countries such as Argentina and Uruguay admire him and he is more than acceptable in the eyes of the leaders of Brazil, the fastest growing economy and democracy in the region.
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Again, it sounds obvious--and yet advisers seem to vastly underestimate the importance of this fundamental factor in the eyes of their clients.
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