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However the question posed in this discussion assumes that wars can be, at least to a degree, pointless.

Sound reform depends on knowledge to a degree that lawyers do not always appreciate.

Engel: I think we are all to a degree motivated by the fact that people will see these images and understand what war is all about.

The US and China have other common interests, to a degree unthinkable just a few years ago.

Nonetheless, that impact may be mitigated to a degree by frugality fatigue and the general sense that the economy is improving.

But as this principle is meant as an aid not a rule, it has also given rise to a degree of worrying uncertainty for divorcing couples.

I suppose that each one of us is, to a degree, a prisoner of our experience.

is past or to a degree greater than knowledge or experience; the unknown.

General Butler grew ever more adamant in the defense of "his" contrabands, to a degree that must have shocked his old associates.

The policy imposes hundreds of detailed industrial efficiency standards to a degree unparalleled in any other country in the world.

Such a plan would force Greece to endure prolonged pain to a degree that strains the imagination.

The body's tissues are self-repairing and self-restoring to a degree, and function best when more or less continuously active.

The comparative affluence of much of American society has contributed to a degree of wastefulness that will astonish you.

It can't have been easy for him to a degree but in truth he has made mistakes which cannot be blamed on (Tom) Hicks and (George) Gillett.

This led to a divide between the upper class and the common man that persists to a degree down to the present generation.

To a degree, Latvia's overheated economy was a product of its accession to the European Union.

I agree with you to a degree.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Labor has taken a lot of the blame for the current state of the U. S. auto industry, and to a degree, rightfully so.

The answer, to a degree, is yes, and I'll expand on that in a little bit.

A country's future prosperity depends, to a degree, upon the quality of education of its people.

The project teams have managed to boil an integration methodology and process down to a degree that greatly reduces risk of failure.

Still: 'From a customer perspective my cost of ownership is known to a degree, ' says Chris Sutton of J.

The answer has to be in another defining change -- an emphasis on technology to a degree never before seen.

The initial ambivalence of Muslim Turkey was to a degree understandable.

Until the last few decades, the monetary system functioned to a degree.

But if you do that exercise right before you go to bed, you stimulate your body to a degree that makes it difficult to go right to sleep.

Even the development of heart disease and cancer may, at least to a degree, be staved off by refusing to grow old gracefully.

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This was a predicted event, to a degree, from the Corps of Engineers.

Gilbert has found that studying the structure of a network in greater detail can compensate for this to a degree.

To a degree, these concepts could already be found in the UML 1 definition of collaborations, except that they were not applied recursively.

Adhesion and appearance can be controlled to a degree by using rubber pressure rolls of varying hardness.

In consequence you have been empowered to a degree that you now have legions of Light behind you.

This is because, generally speaking, the educational system of the United States is squeezed indoors to a degree that stifles young minds.

Even the big state owned firms served by the big state owned banks are affected to a degree.

Our ability to cope with change and disruption determines, to a degree, our peace , happiness and contentment in life.

And it does, to a degree, although there is no clinical evidence of the health benefit in healthy individuals for doing so.

I think the general public will favour your policy to a degree, but you must make more radical reforms to gain their wholeheartedsupport.

He cites Spain, where the returns to a degree have fallen significantly in recent years.

Monetary reward will to a degree direct our activities however you sell yourself short if you place money first.

The soft and commixture plaque in carotid artery detected by CAUindirectly reflected the plaque character of coronary artery to a degree.

Emotional and physical resilience is, to a degree, something you're born with.

What both sisters possess to a degree unapproachable by their colleagues is immense power and glorious13 athleticism.

The slightly chaotic character of mind goes even deeper, to a degree our egos may find uncomfortable.

Your degree is equivalent to a degree granted by a traditional college.

It's kind of a natural progression, to a degree.

The reinforcement was subjected to a degree of motion relative to the resin.

To a degree, he and other officials are merely parroting longstanding Thai objections to the Karen refugees.

" The short answer is yes, to a degree, and specifically to a geographic region. " Retired U.

While reading a poem, we may appreciate its description of scenery to a degree of " pictorial vividness" .

This can randomize the locations of the index extents to a degree .

The outside world is wonderful, to a degree, one world, one more choice, more chance!

Paulson supports the principle-based approach, to a degree.

They accept joint ownership of assets and state presence in firms to a degree unimaginable to Amercians.

SOAP (and even to a degree HTTP) can have multiple endpoints associated with the message.

The short answer is yes, to a degree, and specifically to a geographic region.

The merger, which both companies hope to sign in April 2012, is, to a degree, a family affair.

They can be phenomenally picky about prospective partners, to a degree where they put off commitment for years and years.

When the temperature is increased when binding to a degree after melting, and the paper bonding.

The debt crisis is forcing the 17 euro-zone countries to pool economic sovereignty to a degree that was unthinkable before.

The initial ambivalence of Muslim Turkeywas to a degree understandable.

Regarded simply as an attack on the Government, his speech was virulent to a degree.

and they are said to have cultivated the faculty of abstraction to a degree unknown to Europeans.

Furthermore, American attitudes toward inequality are polarized to a degree that is unusual internationally.

Certificates can serve as stepping stones to a degree.

To a degree, the financial crisis is responsible.

Real-life meetings and conferences will do that, to a degree.

Kaili University was upgraded to a degree -awarding institution in 2006, and now it is on the way of regularized development track.

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For the last year, Great Britain has embraced austerity to a degree that would make some American conservatives blush.

With globalisation, we're all sailors to a degree.

Most people are shy to a degree & face anxieties.

To a degree the assumption still holds true.

The numbers support their view, to a degree.

To a degree, the medicine has worked.

To a degree, it would seem so.

He likes travelling to a degree.

We all live in comfort zones and that's great because comfort zones protect us to a degree.

But they have all flourished because they were privatised, to a degree, and forced to compete with foreign firms in the 1990s.

The film was boring to a degree.

Who knows and, to a degree, who cares?

They are based on a view of society and what is important, as well as political beliefs to a degree.

"We as parents can to a degree protect our teens from bad content, but we can't protect them from their own conduct, " Nigam said.

He is insolent to a degree.

Because modern science and technology make the quality gaps of similar products reduce to a degree that can be neglected.

this enlarged my circle but also diluted my experience to a degree.

I think that's true to a degree, but the situation is not quite so simple.

I am not suggesting that is the solution, but to a degree there is something to be said for it.

And they have perfected that to a degree far beyond what we can imagine.

He was an immensely talented man, determined to a degree unusual even in the ranks of Hollywood

But you gotta believe it to a degree 'cuz true indeed