Gone are the days, it seems, when adult education was seen as a public good in itself.
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This right enhances individual liberty and is therefore good in itself.
So although an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza would be good in itself, easing life for the Palestinians there and reducing armed friction between the two sides, it would not lead automatically to a broader peace.
Mr Brown is more prone to use Old Labour language, to criticise fat cats, to support redistribution and portray public spending as a good thing in itself.
The scandal has led to broader talk of constitutional reform a good idea in itself but an election fought around hastily cooked-up ideas in the current climate could be disastrous.
Pondering these questions may be a good exercise in itself, as it promotes more awareness of the dependencies systems and processes have on one another, Harding and his co-authors observe.
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But others charge it with merely trying to make a quick buck from selling small chunks of its property, without any ideological commitment to privatisation as a good thing in itself.
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There are many such paradoxes in chess, much as there are in good writing or in life itself.
Wasting resources is never good in and of itself and going into debt to do it is even worse.
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We've rediscovered that work is good in and of itself, that it ennobles us to create and contribute no matter how seemingly humble our jobs.
Ever-popular annuities sometimes sound too good to be true, which in itself is probably a good reason to avoid them.
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"The fact that other people might break the law and cause involuntarily deaths is not in itself good constitutional justification, " Mr Murray said.
But while CAA may be busy putting itself in a good situation to purchase IMG Worldwide, it is not the only agency that could be positioning itself to make a play.
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The clarity of the outcome in itself is good news for Macedonia - the worst possible result would have been a narrow victory for either side.
Another country with a national pavilion, India, has good reason to promote itself in the U.S.: up to 65 percent of India's software exports land in the U.S., and India is the U.S.'s biggest software trade partner.
Even now, if Jim gets a hockey team, there is absolutely no reason in the world that should by itself mean he cannot make good and better decisions in running RIM into the future.
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But that in itself may be good news, says Richard Koo, chief economist at Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo.
That in itself is pretty good evidence that investors are foolish, but when a premium is combined with a rich payout you have a concentrated dose of market absurdity.
We proliferate products and projects and programs and proposals each one of which makes good sense by itself, but in the aggregate overwhelm us, our organizations, and our customers.
So getting to zero at the end of your budget document, even if you do it in a real way as opposed to a fanciful way, is not in and of itself good.
Such independence is meant to be a means to good monetary policy, not an end in itself.
Although attention is increasingly focused on the costs of bad behaviour, that in itself will not get good results.
The panel itself was in remarkably good shape, now distinctly concave but looking perfectly ready to stop a few more rounds.
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The entire tone, the implication, is that creation of these jobs, the causing of this much investment, is in and of itself a good thing.
This will be helpful in itself, but a good counselor will also know whether you need to see a doctor to get medical help for the depression.
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