And yet agnosticism is the policy which Mr Kennedy seems almost piously to have embraced.

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This led Cisco to make BYOD and device agnosticism available to every employee.

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Later, rejecting the agnosticism of his parents and his own skeptical instincts, he became a Christian and joined a church.

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In 1829, he wrote up his ideas about agnosticism in a tract and had a thousand copies printed at his own expense.

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In the meantime, what unites the deal-makers in America's Treasury and cerebral types like Mr Talbott is their militant agnosticism about Russia's medium-term outlook.

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First, the Mitterrand presidency moved from doctrinaire socialism towards pragmatic agnosticism.

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Yet his actions belie that agnosticism.

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He joined one of the city's most prominent black churches, Trinity United, and abandoned his youthful agnosticism in favour of Christianity (Trinity's Afrocentric bent, with its African visitors and women dressed in African robes, may have particularly appealed to the son of an African).

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To reach true OS agnosticism 6Wunderkinder, however, relied on HTML5 -- which makes porting an app easy, but comes with its own drawbacks, including lackluster performance. (Just ask Mark Zuckerberg.) With the revamp, Wunderlist 2, the task management platform now has truly native apps for Android, iOS, OS X and Windows to compliment its web site.

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