We have imagination, a faculty that enables us to think of something that is not immediately present, and that, when we first conceive it, has no objective existence.
Although the euro was formally launched in the financial markets in 1999, for most citizens of the twelve countries involved it still has no tangible existence.
One of its campaigns is designed to ensure that more children are properly registered - as otherwise they have no proof of identity and "no legal existence" - and it cites estimates that 51 million newborns go unregistered every year.
Unlike banks, hedge-fund managers cannot be paid deferred bonuses in the form of shares in the parent company: there are no shares in existence.
So muddled is their morality that they can no longer recognize the existence of evil.
ABMs, in contrast, make no assumptions about the existence of efficient markets or general equilibrium.
But in the absence of disclosure, tax officials will have no idea about the existence of the account.
The details of his life that have emerged so far suggest a lonely, loveless and circumscribed existence: no wife, no close friends, a cheap apartment.
The American way, and existence, no longer is threatened from outside.
In the process of creative destruction the ladder has been kicked away and for increasing numbers of people a middle-class existence is no longer even an aspiration.
Though this sheet matched those few, there was no previous record of its existence.
But having created something unique, he then stored it away at his home for more than half a century and told no-one about its existence.
No tablet has yet proved the existence of the Tower of Babel or the Hanging Gardens, although Mr Finkel has a complete inventory of Babylonian flora.
By re-purposing these funds, the Fed would not have to engage in further quantitative easing but may be able to further stimulate the real economy with funds already in existence and thus place no, or at least minimal, additional risk on the tax payer.
But the existence of federal regulation furnishes no reason to make state common law governing the employer-employee relationship more intrusive.
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Washington is refreshing itself, no doubt impressed by its own flourishing existence.
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Unless New Mexico intends to only prosecute accused rapists or practitioners of incest who impregnate their victims, the existence of a fetus is no evidence of rape or incest whatsoever.
Under Utah law developers are under no obligation to preserve, or even reveal the existence of, archaeological remains.
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This would have been heresy at the old HP, which had no big layoffs for all six decades of its existence.
Despite its many years of existence, this industry remains unregulated and no single body oversees the estimated 200, 000 practitioners - compared to the 38, 236 medical doctors.
No more beepy text alerts to mar your terrestial existence.
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With all due respect to the editors of the best business magazine in existence, your arguments on illegal immigration no longer match the new, stark reality in the Southwest, particularly California.
Sadly, there are no photos of my grandmother doing a keg stand in existence (that I know of).
No matter how upset people might get over the mere existence of transgender students, or their participation in sports, schools nationwide are going to have to think about how they will handle the situation.
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Dr Gell-Mann also identified points that had no known particles associated with them and predicted the existence of particles that would fill those gaps.
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Ethiopia seizes this opportunity to underscore that there is no other sound alternative to good neighbourliness and peaceful co-existence and calls upon all neighbouring countries to stand united in promoting peace and development in our sub-region.
The existence of Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is of no interest, even to Harold Crick.
And in the midst of their take-no-prisoners attitude toward those who would deny their right to existence, one can also find a few satirical nods to tried and true archetypes of Jewish identity and tradition.
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The existence of the potential for abuse, however, is no more an indictment of credit derivatives generally than it is of the stock market or any other useful tool of society than can sometimes be abused.
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