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What caused credit to freeze as the TED spread (which should be about 50) went up to nearly 300 last fall, and is still hovering near 100, is the leveraged speculation that pervaded every form of financial transaction — ALL of it abstracted from the actual production of stuff … like houses, which have a value in themselves.

Matthew Yglesias » Brink Lindsey Accuses Progressives of Peddling “Nostalgianomics” 2009

The Beautiful Soul represents Hegel's attempt to convey the mode of consciousness of those human beings full of great individual goodness and purity, yet cut off and abstracted from the world of which they are a part.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

We have, through the long and complicated processes of teleological argument, abstracted from a class called God, which was assumed to be multiply instantiable in objects called gods, to another class, also called God, which is assumed to be only singularly instantiable.

Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

Obviously the flock herd manager will be abstracted from the response Llama team, leaving it shortstaffed and alllowoing the FLM to say “not my remit”.

Llama, Llama. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

We have, through the long and complicated processes of teleological argument, abstracted from a class called God, which was assumed to be multiply instantiable in objects called gods, to another class, also called God, which is assumed to be only singularly instantiable.

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007

Now these records are coming to the Internet, albeit in abstracted form, through Information Wanted, a website of the Boston College Irish Studies Program.

Archive 2005-06-01 2005

In his later work, in which he dealt with the same period at greater length, the account which he had abstracted from a Greek source, probably Nicholas of Damascus, is corrected by the Jewish work.

Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927

The little court-jester had seen the witticisms especially reserved for such wearying weather, received in abstracted silence.

The Golden Apple Tree 1920

Then put as a second point on your note-book the fact that at least 500,000 men and women are abstracted or will be abstracted from the beneficent productive work of Canada in making supplies, equipments, doing subsidiary services of a thousand different kinds, all to aid the processes of destruction and demolition which are being carried on by the advanced 500,000 men.

Trade Preparations for Coming Peace 1916

There are factors which are being abstracted from the fertile soil of this country which it will take generations to replace, the loss of which we cannot but deplore, and the loss of which it will take long to make up.

Trade Preparations for Coming Peace 1916