• Creating jobs by rebuilding America's runways, railways and roads makes sense to groups like the American Public Transportation Association (APTA).

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  • Carpools only make sense if groups of people work in similar locations, live in similar locations, and have similar work schedules.

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  • It is a sense of exceptionalism that convinces radical groups that their actions are morally justified.

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  • Such patois often develops among students, soldiers and other groups to foster a sense of belonging.

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  • What also sets the Tamils apart from northern communities and, indeed, from other Dravidian groups, is a strong sense of belonging to their homeland.

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  • Given the current dire state of the Conservative Party, it may make some sense to bribe middle-class interest groups, even at the price of broader credibility.

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  • In a sense, the market is punishing the media groups for their profligacy.

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  • "These are not even firms in the old sense, but more tribal affiliations for specific groups of cases, " Richards says.

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  • Gypsy-gadje relations are made even trickier where traditional groups still observe laws shaped by a sense of imminent defilement, the idea (more understandable when framed within an Indian caste system) that contact with gadje, particularly sexual contact, is a kind of pollution punishable by banishment.

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  • Unlike many raps groups, known in Senegal for their extreme dress sense and dreadlocks, Laxaso's members - who are all in their early twenties - embrace the traditional Senegalese mode of dressing and wear flowing robes, or boubous.

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  • "It was debated by the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for many years, and the indication for the use of influenza vaccine for an increasing number of groups on a piecemeal basis didn't make sense, " Schaffner said.

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  • But Nair and her screenwriter, Sooni Taraporevala, try so hard to be all things to all racial and ethnic groups that by the end the story ceases to make sense on its own terms.

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  • Webaroo claims 150 brand advertisers and 10, 000 smaller-size enterprises using the platform to either advertise on groups created by other users or to create their own groups, like PepsiCo, which says GupShup makes ideal sense for mass consumer products.

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  • If you wish to get the two groups working together, getting them together talking seems to make sense.

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  • R.1: The knowledge and practices related to the toquilla straw hat are transmitted from one generation to another and provide the bearing communities with a sense of cultural identity and continuity, serving as a reference of social cohesion among different groups living in coastal and Andean regions of Ecuador.

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  • If a teenage sense of social exclusion influences future earnings, it may have great implications for youngsters from minority groups.

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  • And the groups, including Mencap, Scope, the National Autistic Society, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Sense, warned the situation could deteriorate under the forthcoming reform of the system.

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  • Robin Marsh, UK secretary general of the Federation, spoke of the "innate sense of fairness and decency" that informed Lord King's decisions and his support for persecuted groups and disadvantaged minorities.

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  • They sat, quietly, in family groups, surrounded by their empty water cans and barely any belongings - tough people, with no sense of entitlement or outrage.

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  • In that sense the College is democratic: A candidate has to pay attention to the needs and wants of numerous interests and groups of people.

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  • But if the radical groups manage to tie anger over the austerity measures mandated under the country's international bailout to a sense of nationalism, they might pick up more disaffected voters.

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  • Among groups with a stake in good ties between Islam and the historically Christian West, there was an instant sense that the challenge they faced might be bigger than people thought.

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  • In many other countries, too, there is a sense that politics has mutated since the 1960s from an activity organised largely around parties to one organised around specialised interest groups on the one hand (such as America's gun lobby) and broader protest and social movements on the other (such as the women's movement, environmentalism and consumerism).

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