One can easily debate the relative merits of either path, but the point is largely moot.
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He never weighed for us the relative merits of the defense cuts, the entitlements cuts etc.
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Whatever their relative merits may be, in the end, both sides of the argument are largely irrelevant.
And apropos of almost nothing, Gilligan launched into a riff on the relative merits of Three Stooges.
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That would settle the argument about the relative merits of private and public provision in the state sector.
True, a preoccupation with the relative merits of various types of decorative sticky tape is not for everyone.
As the banks saw it, it was not their job to consider the relative merits of particular projects.
And how could we weigh the relative merits of the two arguments?
Feelings about the relative merits of Lenin and the tsars run high.
Of course, as Lyall points out, Vodafone has a particular problem in Europe that has nothing to do with the relative merits of Europe versus Asia.
She took pictures of her husband as he posed with admirers, and animatedly joined in a debate about the relative merits of Carolina and Long Island corn.
Inevitably, there has been plenty of debate about the relative merits of the England duo with the great and the good of Indian cricket all having an opinion.
Doll is in a unique position to talk about the relative merits of different broadcast media: He's the only state CIO who has full control of the public broadcast system.
The combination of mobile broadband and cheap netbooks will resolve a long-running argument within the technology industry about the relative merits of computers and mobile phones as tools to promote development.
But it has also covered the government's stated intention of giving new weight to China's own culture, and the relative merits of observing traditional holidays rather than socialism's sacred Labour Day.
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Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the mistakes in evaluating the relative merits of the four bids received to run the West Coast Main Line route had been made by Department for Transport staff.
But as will surprise no regular readers of this column, the federal government utilized a number of weapons in its arsenal to convince Milken to plead guilty regardless of the relative merits of the prosecution.
Mr. Kaminski is one of only two living cinematographers to have won Oscars for both black-and-white and color movies (the 91-year-old Haskell Wexler is the other), and he appreciates each mode for its relative merits.
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Earlier this week, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said a "terrible mistake" in evaluating the relative merits of four bids had been made by Department for Transport staff and that the fault lay "wholly and squarely" with the department.
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The amount and nature of taxation, whether of the income stream generated by a particular investment, or that levied on interim dividends or capital gains realized upon the disposition of an asset, must be among the many complex factors considered by any rational investor in assessing the relative merits of an investment opportunity.
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Because I think it will be a good educational process for people to weigh the arguments about the relative merits of the bill instead of listening to millions of dollars' worth of insurance industry ads that have been put out there or whatever pundit on the left or the right is saying about these different issues.
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Dinner with him is the best ticket in Washington: a wild ride of jokes and indiscretions all washed down with vodka rather than the diet soda preferred by most American politicians. (His judgments on the relative merits of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton are particularly worth hearing.) Even Mr McCain's support for the Iraq war has its upside.
If we were reading about running-shoe production, or the relative costs of different sources of electricity, or the merits of different mobile phones, we'd want facts and proof.
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