So this notion that somehow we are willing to compromise too much reminds me of the debate that we had during health care.
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What completely befuddles me about this entire situation is the belief, as Louis points out, that somehow we as consumers are OWED something by Netflix.
And when we start acting as if their religion is somehow offensive, what are we saying to them?
As politicians, we cannot, and I will not accept, the idea that we are somehow different.
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The irony is that this too is an illusion, one in which we believe that by deconstructing artifice we are somehow enriched.
Yet, this is what the market is betting on: that the U.S. will grow out of this someday, somehow, just because we are not Europe.
Placing the environment, social responsibility and flexible working hours at the heart of the political agenda was "not because we are somehow anti-business", Mr Osborne insisted.
And we are trying to strike that balance, but we're going to need help from all of you who oftentimes are more credible than politicians in delivering that message, because we want to leverage whatever public dollars are spent, and we are under no illusion that somehow the federal government can spend its way out of this recession.
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The differences found in fast food chains abroad somehow make us feel as though we are participating in the everyday culture of a country.
"It's quite remarkable to me that people are assuming that somehow we're at a new stage in political or institutional or economic development in Mexico, " said John Ackerman, a law professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a visiting scholar at American University in Washington.
There is even a feeling, a faint sense sometimes that we have been relegated to the role of walk-on in someone else's drama, that as citizens we are crucial and yet somehow ... extraneous.
Well, look, I think some you know frankly rather misleading claims are being made that somehow we're going to destroy the green belt and so on, and that local people won't have their say.
We are all natural storytellers but somehow we lose this part of ourselves when we enter the corporate world.
"This would be a partnership that would really make a difference in that country and we are going to continue this somehow, " Lathem said.
"Never again can people say UKIP is a wasted vote, that we are splitting the vote, that somehow we can't win, because we have come ever so close to winning in this by-election, " he told the BBC.
Their plan says that if we roll back health care reform, that somehow jobs are going to be created.
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Of course, that implies that those who just get the regular channel packages or movies are somehow "low quality, " but we'll leave that for another article, as I'm sure Dish and every cable company describes their customers the same way.
And as I was saying earlier, it can't possibly be that the reforms to our tax code that were good and desirable then are somehow not worth doing now, that we shouldn't close those loopholes that allow corporations and wealthy individuals to take advantage of the tax code in a way that average folks can't.
There are some on either side that have suggested that somehow we could manage our way through.
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In other words, there are all sorts of mechanisms that are involved here, and so the presumption that somehow we can block the capability of China or anybody else borrowing at essentially identical terms abroad as here, in my judgment, is a mistake.
We have to earn each of our victories, but somehow those victories are expected of us.
But somehow or other when you say that these unauthorized workers are - what we're really doing is we're taking a group of people and treating them in a different way.
We are kidding ourselves if we think that the United States is somehow immune from this dynamic and does not have to compete and earn its share with good policies.
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It doesn't mean that we somehow don't have the responsibility to keep going after them wherever they are.
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And it's absolutely critical that those of us who are not in the Bush administration not become complacent and somehow think that we've done our job.
"Despite the fact that people like to delude themselves that Colorado is somehow different, says US Bank chief economist Tucker Hart Adams, "the fact is we are very much in line with the US economy.
We should never allow the environment, which I think is now present, that somehow pharmaceutical companies are the FDA's client.
And so, surely, we can have a debate that's not based on the notion somehow that your elected representatives are trying to do something to you other than potentially prevent another group of families from grieving the way the families of Aurora or Newtown or Columbine have grieved.
Most of the time, we are presented with scenarios in which data is poured into Hadoop or sifted with Splunk and somehow you get insights.
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