Though the Front is still unlikely to gain more than a handful of seats at most, no fewer than 134 of its candidates have got through to second rounds by virtue of winning the first-round votes of at least 12.5% of registered voters in their constituencies.
Invaluable for Holland and Juventus by virtue of his fighting spirit, first-class technique and driving runs, the man known as "Pitbull" still gets himself booked on too many occasions.
This is like arguing that a person of faith who participates in Medicaid , or some other government program , forfeits her First Amendment protections by virtue of having accepted taxpayer assistance.
They extended their lead over second-place Chicago to four full games and now own the tiebreaker, too, by virtue of sweeping this season's first three meetings with Chicago.
Back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was campaigning for his first term, he made a virtue of his disdain for foreign-policy issues.
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Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana qualified for the biennial tournament by virtue of finishing in the top three places at the first African Amputees Nations Cup in Freetown earlier in the year.
Russia always had first mover advantage in the Southern Corridor purely by virtue of being able to redirect initial supplies from Ukraine towards South Stream markets.
The virtue of their independence, they say, is that safety always comes first.
This strategy has the added virtue of pressing Senate Democrats to pass legislation too, starting with its first budget outline in four years.
But a city like New Orleans, with its rebuilding challenges, its violence, its rich culture, the odd mix of civic virtue and corruption, and its long-term existential risks from hurricanes and rising seas, deserves a first-class newsgathering operation.
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The First Amendment claim was similarly an argument that his right to freedom of association was unconstitutionally infringed by virtue of the threat of criminal prosecution for mere non-criminal membership.
It is worth noting that, in the meantime, associate IMF membership might also have the virtue of vitiating the prohibitions imposed by the 1934 Johnson Debt Default Act -- enabling the USSR for the first time to issue bonds and other securities instruments in the United States.
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