There seemed to be a natural order in the world that Apple would come up with amazing new products to sell at the highest price point, giving the cheap Asian manufacturers lots of opportunity to mimic with lousier knock-off versions at the low-end of the market.
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More broadly, the principle upon which immunisation is based - namely, exposure to a non-harmful version of the naturally occurring infection in order to induce a natural and protective immune response - can be seen to be a far more natural process than the drug- and surgery-based therapies most widely venerated as the main achievements of modern medicine.
He told the inquiry that to lose a child was "totally against the natural order of things", and added that he had also lost a daughter.
This raises questions about the role of law enforcement and order during a natural disaster.
Greenspan claims the Federal Reserve can't prevent bubbles, that these excesses of ebullience are part of the natural order of a free economy.
Their campaigns often pinpoint issues that involve a conflict between preserving the natural order of things and changing it either through new technology (such as genetic engineering) or through economic growth (leading, for example, to the increased use of cars).
Perhaps worse, there was a fatalism, cultivated assiduously by those opposed to public spending on ideological principle, that this was the natural order of things, that somehow there was a 'British disease' which meant we were culturally destined to have second-rate education and health and rising crime.
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Should preserving the natural order of things be a goal in itself?
It seems natural that a definitive definition is in order.
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As if a government bristling with arms was simply letting the natural order of things play out.
However, taking a long view, extinction has been part of the natural order of things throughout Earth's history.
I'm a metric guy, and it's just the natural order of things.
In fact the Biblical injunctions about the alien are so strong that the Bible sometimes reverses what we would call the natural order of charity, arguing that if a fellow Israelite falls on hard times to make sure to treat him the same way one would an alien.
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There's the slick salesman who needs billions of dollars in capital and technical know-how from the outside in order to exploit a quadrillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves (50 years' U.S. consumption) and 300, 000 miles of pipeline crisscrossing Russia from the Baltic border east to Tomsk in Siberia and from Uzbekistan north toward the Arctic Circle.
"We just know that it is a natural response that we hopefully will be able to utilise that in order to generate new varieties that will be easier to break down and use the sugars to produce biofuels, " he observed.
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Ongoing Role of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustee Council. (a) Executive Order 13554 recognized the role of the Trustee Council, and designated trustees as provided in 33 U.S.C. 2706, with trusteeship over natural resources injured, lost, or destroyed as a result of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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The Bush administration was against expansion of West Bank settlements, but it was willing to accept a "natural growth" exception that implicitly permitted Israel to expand existing settlements in order to accommodate family growth.
From 1710 onwards, it has involved a deal in which the creator or publisher gives up any natural and perpetual claim in order to have the state protect an artificial and limited one.
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They betoken a time when artists regarded the natural landscape not just as a source of beauty, but as the visible evidence of divine order.
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It's essential, in order for consumers to embrace a fabric, that it look like wool, silk or another natural material, Mr. Kriemler says.
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