It turned out that they were excess in a legal sense, but not in the minds of the bankers.

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Private equity firms are private by nature and often private in the legal sense, too.

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It is also important because millions are watching to see if such comments must be tolerated in a legal sense.

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Now it may no longer matter, at least in a legal sense.

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If you like (and this is not strictly accurate in a legal sense but is good enough) there needs to be a marriage of form and function for there to be passing off.

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" According to the Los Angeles Times, the IAEA director, Mohamed ElBaradei, a former law professor at New York University, sallied forth to defend his organization's honor saying " the report used the word 'evidence' to mean 'proof' - words that he argued were interchangeable in a legal sense.

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This may be the first time sockpuppetry has been exposed where it has truly mattered in the legal and bureaucratic sense.

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Consequently, the study of corruption ought to include acts that may be legal in a strict narrow sense but where the rules of the game have been bent.

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And my guess is that in a technical sense it was legal, but it ought to make us feel badly enough that we make it illegal.

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President Bush's legal experts may be right in a narrow sense when they say that he does not need to get a congressional vote to back a war against Iraq.

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That means it makes even more sense now to establish workable paths to legal entry in the United States to fill jobs in agriculture, landscaping, hotels and other sectors.

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Mr. Schiff brought a key legal mind that was very helpful in our deliberations and very helpful in trying to make some sense out of complicated areas.

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In that sense, Dead Addict argues, Internet culture has always bent, and sometimes broken, the legal rules.

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