"Before we enter the spiritual world, we are in the mundane world, " she says.

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We analyzed public opinion polls and congressional votes during four episodes of humanitarian intervention -- Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo -- and found, as recent debates seems to suggest, humanitarian intervention is mired in the mundane world of politics.

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But oftentimes, identity theft stems from mundane real-world theft.

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As if we haven't given you enough devious toys to convert your mundane workplace into World War III, here's one to bring back the peace when cooperation becomes essential to everyone's job again.

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By the glitzy standards of deal making, moving money around the world for iTunes is mundane.

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In the real world, the job was a lot more mundane, but it was still virtually the only one a young woman could choose that offered the chance to travel.

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There are a range of responsibilities from the mundane to the highly specialized that become part of your world as a business owner, which could be delegated if you just had a job.

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And, as is the nature of things against the World Champions, a team effort towards that apparently mundane task may be the decisive factor, before we can even factor in Ronaldo's potential for brilliance.

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In shamelessly memorialising the mundane, his wish may be that more people recognise not only Istanbul's reality as the centre of the world, but their own.

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