People are different, and one way people differ is in the degree to which they feel that they are or are not masters of their own fate.
Dick Cheney may take satisfaction in the degree to which the Obama administration has continued its predecessor's antiterror policies, but that doesn't mean he's not a critic.
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Beyond issues of malfeasance and misfeasance, the U.S. military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq were unique in the degree to which the government chose to rely on contractors rather than utilizing federal employees.
While there was plenty of news for traders to seize on Wednesday as a reason to bid up prices of stocks and other riskier investments, the scope of the gains in stocks likely reflected the degree to which many in the market had become negative in recent weeks.
To repeat, she sometimes struggled to comprehend, intuitively and instinctively, why a political recipe which brought her adoration or, at least, admiration from wide sectors of the populace in England failed to produce the same results in Scotland, to the same degree.
Reasonable economists can usually disagree on the proper way to define the relevant market in which to assess the degree of power exercised by a firm.
Dr. Gosnell, dressed in a suit, didn't show a visible reaction after the jury foreman said "guilty of murder in the first degree" in response to the first murder count against him.
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T-cells survived in 15 of the patients, although in most of them the degree to which those cells expressed the modified genes waned.
The DOJ has also pointed out in its suit the degree to which T Mobile has been an aggressive price competitor and also prone to push new technology to its customers.
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Last week the journal Science published news of a fascinating psychological study, involving 19, 000 people ages 18 to 68, in which subjects consistently underestimated the degree to which they would change in the future, even though they knew how much they had changed in the past.
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After sagging in the summer months to a degree that had the Federal Reserve step in during September with a promise of additional stimulus, economic reports have been quite positive in the last two months.
While the tech minds of California struggle to rescue people from the threat of a ten degree increase in global temperatures over the next 50 years, the tech minds of Israel struggle to protect us from the threat of a million degree increase in temperature in a crowded city over a nanosecond.
However, that is simply too far in advance to anticipate the degree of ease likely to be needed.
In fact, in many cases, the degree of exposure to toxic chemicals in tap water by inhalation is comparable to the exposure that would result from drinking the stuff.
The game was disrupted to a degree in the second period as both sides were in turn reduced to 14 men.
You've seen -- I don't have the statistic in front of me, but the degree to which, say, college-educated individuals have lost their jobs in this is far greater than we've seen in other recessions.
Our market share estimates for Nokia indicate that the company will continue to lose share in the emerging markets, albeit to a smaller degree as compared to the recent past.
Therefore in order to pursue the dreams and goals that I had set for myself to obtaining a degree in Engineering and playing baseball at the collegiate level, my parents and I had to take out variably accruing private student loans.
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"I don't think I am alone in thinking the Europa League is misconceived to a degree, in terms of the way it is put together, " Alan Pardew, the Newcastle coach, told reporters last month.
We are seeing that in South Korea, where there is perhaps the greatest degree of honesty in trying to address mistakes made in the past.
Recent studies show clearly that when people believe they are taking an active medication but are receiving a placebo their brains activate in much the same way -- but to a lesser degree -- as their brains do in response to the active medication.
The world has marveled at the derring-do of rescuers in the wake of southwestern China's killer earthquake and been heartened by the degree of official willingness to let outsiders share in the national grief.
We did it in World War II, in the Cold War and again, to a lesser degree, in the early stages of the War on Terror.
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But in a few states have laws that protect the borrower to some degree from the deficiency in some circumstances, most notably the western states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
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Indeed, there are now seven bills going through the legislature that would increase regulation to one degree or another in the industry, mostly in response to shipper outrage at the shambolic rail performance of recent years.
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The researchers were surprised to find that the degree of similarity in the number of moles increased with age - even when the subjects were exposed to different environmental factors.
In case you missed it, a new study from the journal Science asserts that we totally underestimate the degree to which we will change in the future.
Protecting the Technological Seed Corn: Fortunately, in the case of the F-117 and to an even greater degree with the aforementioned systems whose problems were more in the public domain, the secretary of Defense presiding at the time (and others in the executive branch) engaged directly with the Congress to muster and maintain the necessary support from Capitol Hill.
U.S. organizations have pushed to move the minimum degree requirement for entry in the physical therapy field up to the level of Ph.
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He told the BBC that some supporters had not adjusted to the degree of compromise required in coalition and those wishing to register a protest vote had gone elsewhere.
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