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Hence, for example, we’ve seen wages stagnate even in putatively tight labor markets when you’d expect wages to increase due to increased demand/decreased supply for labor.

Matthew Yglesias » Health Care and Wages 2010

The reason a felon isn’t permitted to possess a gun, putatively, is that such a person is of bad character and giving a person of bad character a gun is dangerous to society.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Second Amendment and the Takings Clause 2010

Others go further and say that only contents that could naturally be expressed using a demonstrative expression putatively referring to the seen object will be adequate to this phenomenology.

The Contents of Perception Siegel, Susanna 2005

For those who had no taste for casual clothing, global elixirs of the American lifestyle were to be found in jogging, fitness, and the putatively rejuvenating face-lift.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

For those who had no taste for casual clothing, global elixirs of the American lifestyle were to be found in jogging, fitness, and the putatively rejuvenating face-lift.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Ironically, we see a lot of putatively conservative strict constructionists who have no idea of the actual legal issues in play confidently asserting that Sotomayor must have made the wrong decision because the outcome is manifestly unfair, which is supposed to be what judicial activists do — ignore the law and just push a “fair” outcome.

Standing Pat 2009

The putatively “race obsessed” Sotomayor seems to have written the more recent talk largely by plugging the word “Latina” into a preexisting talk on gender.

Obsession, for Men^H^H^H Wise Latinas 2009

Much as people who do not actually care about the poor feel their spirits soar when they go to see a movie about the downtrodden of East Los Angeles, reading the Gay Girl in Damascus blog allowed people in free countries to feel a phony rapport with a putatively brave woman in a repressive but colorful country.

A Blog, a Hoax and a Literary Tradition Joe Queenan 2011

Another — a putatively independent commission that is supposed to enforce cost cutting — is barred from going after costs incurred by doctors and hospitals, which leaves out more than half of Medicare spending.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Health Care Cost Control 2009

I really appreciate Julian Sanchez saying this: Ironically, we see a lot of putatively conservative strict constructionists who have no idea of [...]

Standing Pat 2009