This is evidence that the company's growth and profitability are genuine, not contrived from accounting gimmickry.

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This was not a sound bite, not a contrived pitch.

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Police officers threw an impromptu cordon around her, but not before I had somehow contrived to get myself inside it, my portable tape recorder over my shoulder.

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This suggests that his accounts of lengthy conversations with Venetians may be somewhat contrived, if that does not sound too cynical.

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Some heurige go for a rural look that is somewhat contrived, but here it could not be otherwise.

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There are potential lessons to be learned that are often not heeded, in part, because of that contrived illusion of distance throughout recorded human history.

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It is invariably contrived, never creates any real value, and is simply not necessary.

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Yet it would be extraordinary if they were not so driven in man, because it would mean that natural selection had somehow contrived to wipe out their genetic underpinnings, only for them to re-emerge as culturally determined phenomena.

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The good news is that so-called green transportation is a solution to a problem that is more contrived than real given the global oil boom and the emergence of natural gas, not electric motors, as the major alternative to gasoline and diesel.

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