Those who like their categories cut and dried may wonder whether viruses are alive or not.
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For Brenda De Armond, a retired sheriff's department communications supervisor, the issue has always been cut and dried.
Though I follow a systematic approach, the rules are not cut and dried.
For the rest of us, things are not that cut and dried and so traditional career planning is of little practical help.
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Management by contrast is not so cut and dried.
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"Nothing is cut and dried, " said Snell.
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And, although there were minor alarms when Bell was caught behind off Dalrymple's first ball and Trott was run out by the newly-arrived Tim Ambrose, Glamorgan's third Twenty20 defeat in four games was already pretty much cut and dried.
In the winter he fed his stock on hay cut and dried on the mountainside, and for a little extra income, he cut timber from the forest and floated it downriver - just as the Krivecs of Perk Farm do today.
In truth, agreement on the cause of the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous (when not only the dinosaurs, but also a host of other species died) has never been as cut and dried among palaeontologists as it may have appeared to the public.
It is then cut and treated before being dried and placed in a jig.
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Meanwhile, George W. Bush , a man who has spent his career in the most unpredictable industries imaginable, oil exploration and baseball, suddenly becomes the advocate of the cut-and-dried machine solution to a complex and subtle problem well beyond the tolerances of the machines in use.
There is no cut-and-dried separation of Shariah brutality from the tidy, white-collar world of financial transactions.
But legitimizing any aspect of Shariah is the endorsement of all of it....There is no cut-and-dried separation of Shariah brutality from the tidy, white-collar world of financial transactions.
Determining whether Herbalife satisfies the definition ought to be cut-and-dried.
The authors of DSM-V attempt to capture this less than black-and-white picture by dispensing with the approach taken in previous DSMs, which was based on cut-and-dried checklists of symptoms.
Which category something fits into isn't always cut-and-dried.
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