Saddlers declared by their peers to be using sheep's leather, deemed to be an inferior way to finish a saddle, were slapped with hefty fines.
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Bank officials have been equally scathing about nominal GDP targeting - which, surprise surprise, turns out to be inferior, in their view, to the inflation target we have now.
Cheung said looking forward, if land and labor costs in central and western provinces continue to rise rapidly, factories would be unwilling to relocate there due to their inferior logistics network.
Nevertheless, the developing world should not be expected to endure an inferior quality of life compared to the developed world.
Chrysler did the same, acknowledging the reality that people perceived Detroit automakers to be inferior.
The U.S. is not likely to arm our missiles with nuclear warheads, and so our defense capability and that which we provide our regional allies will be inferior to the Russians'.
Or should autopilot cars (with special running lights) be especially deferential to their inferior human counterparts?
But not all conflicts are likely to be against inferior, unconventional enemies.
You get half a year's use out of each set of tyres so they last twice as long in total, but after the fourth year their material will be inferior compared to new, even if the car was not driven much.
There had been concern that the minister would be second class and inferior to the other ministers, but these fears had always been unfounded, said Mr Robinson.
Before I even received my computer, I was informed that the lithium ion battery it was supposed to ship with were catching on fire (you heard right, catching on fire), and so were going to be replaced with an inferior nickel metal hydride one.
The real impact of the MIT initiative may be to put private purveyors of an inferior product out of business.
That Clause requires Senate confirmation for principal U.S. officers, other than inferior officers, who report to and may be removed by higher officers appointed by the President.
Liberal Democrat Earl Russell argued it would be wrong and unfair to cast one group of people as inferior.
It would reflect the Supreme Court's considered judgment that in the eyes of the Constitution, same-sex relationships may be treated as morally different from (and inferior to) heterosexual relationships.
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And with the initial sales success of the iPhone 5 and the iPad Mini, both products which are measurably inferior to its competiton and yet more expensive, Apple may be right.
In response to the DISH Proposal, Clearwire has received a letter from Sprint stating, among other things, that Sprint has reviewed the DISH Proposal and believes that it is illusory, inferior to the Sprint transaction and not viable because it cannot be implemented in light of Clearwire's current legal and contractual obligations.
The mechanism behind this bias appears to be located in a specific part of the brain, the left inferior frontal gyrus, which is involved in language, among other functions.
And it sets a bad precedent to allow the offending student-athletes to compete in the biggest game of their season yet defer punishment to the following season where half of the missed games will be against far inferior non-conference schools.
Streaming video, which enables the viewer to play a file that resides on a remote server, was believed to be a less desirable method of delivery, because the picture quality was often inferior.
As a system of government, apartheid was designed to establish as a legal, philosophical, and theological proposition that black people, like Ruth Khumalo and her family the vast majority of the population were inferior human beings, incapable of participating in a civilized society, forever destined to be dependent on whatever the tiny white minority might benevolently offer them.
We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
The overwhelming consensus seems to be that the office is severely underfunded and dysfunctional, has too few examiners, has inferior outdated technology and is helplessly backlogged with over 800, 000 unprocessed patent applications.
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Ms Kambites accepts that some of that is true, and explains how a budget supermarket once refused to allow a Fairtrade stall because its customers might be concerned about paying over the odds for inferior coffee.
First, to achieve true and comprehensive equality would involve gross violations of personal liberty, as the talented and capable must be prevented from using their abilities and advantages to get ahead of others, or to make any feel inferior.
"There is a real danger if it does not go ahead there will be very significant costs to the police both in terms of time and finances and that we will have an inferior response to the serious organised crime that we face, " he said.
"How much happier a world it would be if one did not have to mount crusades against racism, segregation, a Holocaust, the extermination of 'inferior peoples, '" notes presidential historian Robert Dallek.
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