• Marrying for the fourth time at the age of 51, the haughty, but always insecure, Ms Amiel believed she had married a man of unlimited means.

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  • They may require a fundamental reconsideration of what it means to be a man.

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  • The Project, which began in 2009 as a book compiled of stories about what it means to be a good man in the twenty-first century, has sparked a national discussion about both goodness and masculinity.

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  • According to an opinion poll last year, 33% of evangelicals think hurricanes are a deliberate act of God which presumably means that man should not mess with them. (Some 13% of non-evangelical Protestants, 15% of Catholics and, bizarrely, 17% of non-religious people agree.) Twenty-two leading evangelicals wrote to the National Association of Evangelicals asking it not to endorse the climate initiative.

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  • But for Styron the Holocaust was an act of man, however terrible, and writing was a means to control and mediate the nature of the world.

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  • All of which means that a man should spend as much as he is able to on a suit that could potentially last a lifetime.

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  • So let's say a beautiful young woman of modest means falls in love with a rich and powerful older man.

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  • Quarles "public safety exception" as a means of circumventing this young man's constitutional rights.

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  • At the very least, it is incumbent upon him to explore the possibility that Gorbachev was a party to a 'Potemkin coup, ' if only as a means of calibrating the wisdom of lending further support to a man viewed with real and understandable suspicion by so many bona fide democrats in the USSR.

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  • Here is a young man who came from means, unlike many of the athletes we see today.

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  • The command, "Thou shalt not place a stumbling block in front of the blind man" also means that you should not act deceitfully or obscure the truth from those whose choice depends upon the information you give them.

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  • This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means .

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  • The fact that these volumes were owned by such a famous man means they might fetch prices roughly double that of books lacking such a provenance, says Jonathan Hill, a rare-book dealer in New York.

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  • Lord Singh, head of the Network of Sikh Organisations, said that while "Sikhism teaches total respect for other ways of life", marriage means the union between a man and woman and they believe that civil partnerships give gays and lesbian all the rights they need.

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  • Remember this when you hear some self-proclaimed friend of the working man imploring that we accept inflation as a means to expand employment.

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  • This was the story of a man who wanted to completely figure out and embody what it means to be human, and just as completely figure out what computing in service of the fully-human should look like.

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  • Their goalkeeper was man of the match (sic) and for me that means a lot.

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  • Though Guy is the lead manager of the funds, it is by no means a one-man show.

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  • We have ten times as many microbial cells in our body as human ones, and though they are tiny, that still means that a 200-pound man is carrying two to six pounds of microbes, mostly bacteria.

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  • The most obvious one was the cancellation earlier this year of NASA's Constellation program, which was intended to provide a "man-rated" expendable rocket to replace the shuttle as America's means of putting humans into space.

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  • This isn't to take anything away from Blunk or the other two heroes, but to illustrate that, in spite of shortcomings, men can still recognize what it means to be a good man and act like one.

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  • When you hear that the man in the photo is a baker, that fact gets embedded in a whole network of ideas about what it means to be a baker: He cooks bread, he wears a big white hat, he smells good when he comes home from work.

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  • The whole cumbersome process of getting and spending the currency invented in 2009 by a mysterious Japanese (or possibly American) man called Satashi Nakamoto convinced me of one thing - that Bitcoin was not yet much use except as a means of speculation.

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  • What this means is, even though this new series takes a lot of inspiration from the Ultimate Spider-Man comics, it is also looking back to those great past eras as well and lifting the best and most important elements, to remain faithful to the full 50 years of Spider-Man history (a 50-year anniversary that is official this August, by the way).

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