Social media has also increased the prominence of this abstract form of bullying.
This enigmatic composition makes us ask if this is an abstract landscape or a nonrepresentational composition suggesting a landscape.
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It is easy to stand in Washington, whether you're a congressman on Capitol Hill, or a reporter here, or an administration official, and suggest that this is all abstract.
Again, this not an abstract political fight.
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This is not an abstract, philosophical, academic point, but a strategic purpose of great practical significance.
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While indisputable in the abstract, this proposition is highly debatable in the context of the former Soviet bloc today.
This is not something I read in a briefing book. (Laughter.) This is not some abstract idea for us.
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In this way she rescued abstract painting, making it once again an instrument of meaningful expression rather than an end in itself.
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If this logic is too abstract, or opens up a discomfiting door, then the default should be that government minds its business at any level.
On the most abstract level this is because liquidity earns real rents, those rents are distilled by a perfectly competitive market and ultimately accrue to the owners of the irreproducible factors of production.
And of course, the upshot of all this is anything but abstract: doctors are left ignorant about the drugs they are prescribing, and which will make their patients sick or get well, or even live or die.
This is not an abstract exercise.
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Along with some of his failed attempts from the 1950s to be a pure abstract painter, this section features the pivotal "Look Mickey" from 1961.
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Much of this is fascinating in the abstract.
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This is a bit of an abstract example but the importance of diversifying skill points is not to be understated.
This test, which relies on abstract spatial thinking, will now account for about two-thirds of the score, while the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) will be about a third.
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Yet despite what seems to be an innate preference for more or less literal representation of the visible world, the abstract idea remains to this day both seductive and perennially relevant.
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And I know that sometimes all this squabbling in Washington seems very abstract, and in the abstract, people like the idea, there must be some spending we can cut, there must be some waste out there.
For an average person to handle this, we've got to abstract it all anyway.
This is a change from the more abstract arguments he used last year: how a health care overhaul would bend the cost curve and help the federal budget.
This opens the door for thinking at an abstract level about products and services.
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The danger with a book like this is that it ends up lost in abstract discussion of difficult subjects.
Even the abstract principles being fought over in this budget round are not the defining issues separating libertarians, conservatives and liberals on the question of whither goest the American welfare state and the military-industrial complex.
"The institutional injury they allege is wholly abstract and widely dispersed and their attempt to litigate this dispute at this time and in this form is contrary to historical experience, " Rehnquist wrote.
The jagged break with the High Modernist creed of Abstract Expressionism is in some instances easier to see in this sideshow than in the main rooms.
The ethical approach which includes the reflection concerning the relationship between the abstract principles and concrete institutional mechanisms, aims to find a reply to this question.
Neo-Darwinian anthropologists have an explanation for this (as they do for almost everything), essentially to do with the fact that abstract logical thought was of little use on the savannah.
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