• Most of the claimed loss was not from actual damage to the house, but rather from permanent damage to its marketability.

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  • This is intellectually dishonest, as the value in money does not come from its nominal value but rather from its purchasing power.

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  • The clean suit itself is not made from particle-emitting textiles, but rather from GORE-TEX, which resembles fabric but which disperses very few particles.

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  • The Brooklyn-based band Falcon doesn't take its name from the bird, but rather from an old friend of bandmates Shannon Ferguson and Neil Rosen.

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  • The real pressure for change is not coming from regulators, or banks, but rather from the market: cheque usage has been in slow decline for years.

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  • His apparent reluctance to bale out Mr Barak stems rather from the fact that he has heard nothing from him that would make it worth his while.

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  • Then again, Fake Steve Jobs might not be posting from Silicon Valley or Hollywood at all, but rather from the U.K. or the U.S. East Coast.

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  • The bond insurers current distress did not arise from losses in their municipal bond insurance business, but rather from their venture into insuring CDOs and the like.

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  • This effect was not caused by the gold standard system itself, but rather from the decisions made as to how to return to a gold standard system after a period of floating currencies.

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  • Again, it was true that La Follette had made money during the war, however it was certainly not from war profiteering but rather from a local radio station in which he had invested.

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  • Now ok, the water won't come from Welsh reservoirs - rather from boreholes beneath Birmingham - but, so the argument goes, without the Welsh water, they wouldn't have 30 million litres a day to spare for Anglian.

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  • We want to show to the people that the universality of knowledge pops up not from a presumed purity, but rather from its way of looking at the world, from the freedom of the research within a rigid rationalism, and, in reality, from constant selfcriticism.

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  • Our list of " America's Most (And Least) Efficient Charities" excludes colleges and other educational institutions for a simple reason: They generally don't solicit funds from the public at large but rather from their own alumni, who might not care much about things like excess fundraising costs, overhead and need.

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  • In the absence of long-term studies, we are left with data like the cataract findings that come not from a study per se, but rather from examining the health records of many thousands of people on antidepressants and looking to see which conditions are more common in these people than in folks not on antidepressants.

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  • In the US, for instance, financial problems of the state of California are less dramatic for Californian banks because their activities and asset holdings are more diversified across the US. If a bank faces financial difficulties, funds required to restructure or recapitalize the bank would not have to come from the California government, but rather from a federal institution.

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  • This period of conflict may last for decades, particularly if the new paradigm comes, not from some of the existing leaders of the current scientific establishment but rather from some unexpected and peripheral source, e.g. the dramatically different theory of genetics coming from Gregor Mendel in Moravia or a revolutionary theory of stomach ulcers from Barry Marshall in Perth, Australia.

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  • The EU is changing its policy on biofuels to encourage energy production from waste rather than from food crops.

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  • Much of it now comes from governments rather than from private investors.

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  • Backed by three other handsetmakers and two chipmakers, Nokia alleges that Qualcomm wrongly cuts its patent fees for handsetmakers that order chips from Qualcomm rather than from rivals.

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  • When basic access to galactic music libraries is free, and recommendations come from peers rather than from institutional power brokers, the door is wide open for peer-to-peer platforms to take an important role in marketing, distributing and delivering music.

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  • Most firms (86%) saw expansion coming from organic growth rather than from mergers and acquisition.

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  • Because the goodness is his true nature, and the selfishness arises from his fear rather than from his heart.

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  • Plans to monitor CCTV cameras in Ely from the city rather than from 16 miles away in Cambridge have been proposed.

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  • For most, they would rather hide from change, rather than embrace it.

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  • With the Mini, if you want to start from the beginning, you'll have to select the show from My Shows rather than from the guide.

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  • Paul, you make a great point: Twitter and Facebook are both making money in mobile, but they are doing it overwhelmingly from advertising, rather than from app download fees or in-app purchases.

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  • While most economists advocate taxation and regulation to deal with these consequences, I prefer (when feasible) to rely on norms, which draw their power from social consensus rather than from the political process.

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  • But when Ambrose used those two quotations yet again in The Supreme Commander in 1970, he ran them together so that they sounded as though they came from one man rather than from two different men.

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  • Passengers must buy their tickets in advance, or from a machine, rather than from the driver as in most London buses.

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  • If this appeals to you, make sure to get advice from an unbiased planner rather than from an insurance agent, who is paid for selling you the policy.

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