And both of those ventures had distribution, the sine qua non of success in cable.

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And at a cost to real jobs elsewhere in the economy as taxpayers-qua-consumers were left with a hole in their pocket.

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Happily making wine in California at Sine Qua Non winery, Harrison was invited by friends to move to Oregon and make wine.

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It is difficult to imagine a Randian qua Randian, say, volunteering in a soup kitchen to feed the hungry, or even founding the Fraternal Order of Fellow Randians to provide free health coverage and housing to jobless and homeless Randians.

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Bill Clinton, who is not French, and who came into office calling for the discontinuance of heavy echelons in favor of power projection, simultaneously pressed for a severe reduction in aircraft carriers, the sine qua non of power projection.

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So ostensibly then, big bonuses are a sine qua non if all these essential executives are to keep their apparently non replaceable skill sets in the service of AMR Corp.

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One of these is the reluctance of the existing Commonwealth countries to have anything to do with Britain qua colonial power, to seem to condone colonialism by accepting a colony as a partner in their company.

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In the debate over climate legislation in 2009 and 2010, it was conventional wisdom that a price on carbon was the sine qua non of effective climate policy.

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