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Our fascination with innovation stems from our determination to keep our hopes for a better future alive, despite the well-justified fears of depletion and corruption.
Michael Roth: 2011: Deficits, Equality and Innovation Michael Roth 2012
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Our fascination with innovation stems from our determination to keep our hopes for a better future alive, despite the well-justified fears of depletion and corruption.
Michael Roth: 2011: Deficits, Equality and Innovation Michael Roth 2012
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The story could hardly be more timely, with its tangled—and, as it turns out, well-justified—suspicions, in midbattle, about who can and cannot be trusted, and about whether Pakistani security agents are friends or agents of terror.
War, Sex and Counterterrorism Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011
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Our fascination with innovation stems from our determination to keep our hopes for a better future alive, despite the well-justified fears of depletion and corruption.
Michael Roth: 2011: Deficits, Equality and Innovation Michael Roth 2012
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One is wont to think the traditional English disdain and contempt for Noncomformists, including Methodists, is well-justified.
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I also note the careful use of the phrase “highly respected,” which is often no more than an attempt to preempt well-justified criticism of the person so described.
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Simultaneously, there is an ever-growing and well-justified frustration with what many consider to be unrealistic depictions of beauty in fashion magazines and other media.
The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011
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Finally, David H offered up a playlist that was well-known tracks, but well-justified:
HLO Competition: The Winning Playlists | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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So the point is that political jabs, however well-justified, are inappropriate in a court decision?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin 2010
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Obviously, the well-justified retort to this critique would be: well what are you doing? what do you propose be done?
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