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Invoking the second law of thermodynamics and Maxwell's Demon, the authors lead us through a challenging thesis that concludes that the persistence of life on earth requires both natural selection and niche construction, thereby justifying some of the bold claims for their new theory.
, but here we give examples of his third case only, where “there should not be two parties justifying even a momentary doubt about which the pronoun represents.”
I was unable to find any comment by the author justifying the use and application of the (million-word British) International Corpus of English (ICE-GB).
In Madrid, an editorial in El Mundo Wednesday took Primakov to task for justifying Russia's opposition to the bombing of Serbia by citing the example of Basque separatism in Spain.
"Inconsistencies and ambiguities, real or imagined, are to journalists as catnip to the cat," shrugged the New York Daily News , justifying the drug story's persistence.