He spent his life creating his own culture, listening to his heart and doing what was right for him, versus what was right by society's standards.
Meanwhile, progress was mired in a lot of old arguments traded across entrenched political divides: left versus right, management versus labor, business leaders versus environmental advocates.
And closer to home, wherever we might live, we see the familiar struggles of political life -- left versus right, rich versus poor, and up versus down.
He had come to understand the defining human struggle not as left versus right, or faith versus reason, but as individual versus institution.
We can think of Windows 8's approach not as a right versus wrong, but as evidence of the progression of a category.
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"The framing of the issue by the media might play a role, but it is impossible to say what will be the consequences of the media attacking the far right versus tacitly ignoring it, " he said, referring to the approach taken by Greek media so far.
" This wee exercise "forces your focus onto what went right today, versus the inevitable things that went wrong.
To be precise, 79 babies in the moxibustion group came out the right way, versus 60 and 59 in the other two.
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The situation brings up an old debate brought on by new technologies -- the government's right to know versus consumers' rights to privacy and free flowing information.
This involves striking a balance of doing something right (automation) versus doing something fast (putting out a fire).
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Those polls show 46% of Americans of all races backing the right to own guns versus 50% who agree to the need for more limits on gun owners.
"It is the outside attacks that create the basis for the law, but then that raises the abortion concern and causes the right-to-life versus the pro-life fight, " he said.
But giving patients exactly what they want, versus what the doctor thinks is right, can be very bad medicine.
This is not a question of one side is right, one side is wrong, good versus evil.
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She expressed concern about the Scottish government motion, highlighting concerns and arguments against the reforms the length and breadth of the UK, it was "not just progressive Scotland versus reactionary UK", rather a "right wing government pandering to a press agenda" with "cabinet millionaires that believe that poverty is somehow a lifestyle choice".
Mr Meacher is wisely presenting his proposed right to roam as an issue not of urban versus rural, but of people versus toffs.
In the case of females, of which there is a great shortage versus males (a huge problem in its own right), this manifests itself in women preferring working to homemaking.
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This points out the radically different approach Tesla is taking versus Nissan with the Leaf and really everyone else building electric vehicles right now.
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You could say Mason's oeuvre grapples with modernism versus tradition, with rampant consumerism versus sustainability, with strict functionality of craft versus design with a message--and you'd be right on all three counts.
It looks like the planned slower-growth model of Steals.com versus the hyper-growth model of Groupon and others may be the right model.
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Uranium still has a long way to go price-wise versus many other commodities that are at or near all-time highs right now.
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