And it became the basis of things in a number of different fictions that I've written.
This is true, they are indeed just legal fictions, pieces of paper filed away.
In one way, big firms are merely legal fictions, which produce returns out of interchangeable assets.
Some were told they were orphans, the cruellest of fictions, since often their parents were still alive.
In the course of his career, he has published twenty shorter fictions, so there has already been a paring down.
Plants in developing countries that claim they've reduced emissions are selling credits, but in many cases the reductions are fictions.
At that point, the courtroom becomes an arena for artful liars and the jury a mere focus group choosing between alternative fictions.
If watching "Michael Collins" leads viewers to explore the truths and fictions of Irish history, what a fine way to celebrate St.
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But audiences need to be aware that historical films are historical fictions.
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The news this morning is that allegations of accounting fictions at Deutsche Bank are now a hot-button issue at the SEC.
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Maybe the State Department and the White House press office have the luxury of trading in convenient fictions in order to reduce international tensions.
Certainly, video games have their highbrow evangelists and critical apologists, who may consider them to be cultural artifacts, coded texts, mythopoetic fictions, or political paradigms.
It suggests that, even without an economic downturn, the many rosy surplus forecasts that frame today's debate in Washington are little more than entertaining fictions.
Math can be used to describe reality or construct useful fictions.
Malicious gossip is far commoner: mean fictions that once would have circulated in a small group now spread across the world instantly through forwarded e-mails and newsgroups.
It is one thing to squash deals that border on economic fictions, but here we had people reaping tax benefits for doing what Congress wanted them to do.
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While Israel must treat the US with diplomatic deference, it must also base its policies toward the US on how the US is actually treating Israel and not on fictions.
At the heart of the problem is the fact that the Commission continues to believe the legal fictions incorporated in the Investment Company Act of 1940, the federal statute that regulates mutual funds.
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When, moments later, her crew strews the beach, under her exacting direction, with rickety arrays of antique mirrors, she establishes her retrospective gaze as a truth inseparable from the fictions of her imagination.
Like all legal fictions this one sounds great.
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We chatted about his taking the helm of the Enterprise NX-01 and launching his own voyage of discovery about the world of Star Trek, science fictions fans and his own creative work in the process.
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These bonds pay interest just like their forbidden cousins in the Western markets but the interest is put into a black box of Shariah-created fictions and "Special Purpose Vehicles" to keep the forbidden interest off the books.
The dance's punch line, almost an afterthought, has the most innocent and impecunious of the potential clients for the local Shady Ladies saved from being beaten to a pulp by the Procurers when one of the pimps appears to have the "heart of gold" often attributed to the sex workers in such fictions.
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