Indeed, violence isn't so much the choice of free moral agents as a law of nature that flows as predictably from certain circumstances as rivers flow to the sea.

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This week, the Bank of Italy released a statement in Italian saying that the "true nature of certain transactions regarding the Monte dei Paschi di Siena reported in the press has emerged only recently, following the discovery of documents kept hidden to the supervisory authority and brought to light by the new management of MPS".

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In nature, a moth that is camouflaged to look like a certain kind of tree knows that it must land on that tree in order to evade detection by predators.

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Gameloft has done an admirable job making things as playable as possible on a mobile device, but certain issues arise that are tied directly to the nature of the genre itself.

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But because of the nature of this storm, we are certain that this is going to be a slow-moving process through a wide swath of the country, and millions of people are going to be affected.

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The concentrated nature of the courses, which usually involve extensive evening and weekend participation, tends to attract a certain breed of executive.

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