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Requiring that already-stressed state and local law enforcement officers enforce federal immigration laws is not well-calculated to ease the budget problems in the state.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Arizona Immigration Law Preempted? 2010
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Morality, she argued, is about how to live – not so much a series of logically consistent, well-calculated decisions as a lifetime endeavour to become the sort of person who habitually and happily does virtuous things.
Philippa Foot obituary Jane O'Grady 2010
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Educational leaders should, of course, be willing to try new things and take the occasional, well-calculated risk.
Justin Snider: The Transformative Power of Failure? Justin Snider 2010
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Requiring that already-stressed state and local law enforcement officers enforce federal immigration laws is not well-calculated to ease the budget problems in the state.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Arizona Immigration Law Preempted? 2010
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Educational leaders should, of course, be willing to try new things and take the occasional, well-calculated risk.
Justin Snider: The Transformative Power of Failure? Justin Snider 2010
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As unintentional as a poisonous snake's bite, John and Ken's recent so-called apology for giving out my private cell phone number and instigating anti-Dream Act listener harassment on immigrant rights advocates like myself, is a well-calculated, manipulative, and insulting public relations stunt meant to appease the opposition.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera: John and Ken: The Best Apology Is a Farewell Message Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011
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This is no start up folks, but a well-calculated, HEAVILY FUNDED, mega experiment of American domination.
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As unintentional as a poisonous snake's bite, John and Ken's recent so-called apology for giving out my private cell phone number and instigating anti-Dream Act listener harassment on immigrant rights advocates like myself, is a well-calculated, manipulative, and insulting public relations stunt meant to appease the opposition.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera: John and Ken: The Best Apology Is a Farewell Message Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011
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The shift has allowed them to execute dozens of well-calculated and deadly hit-and-run attacks on government patrol units, sometimes with roadside bombs, other times by ambushing soldiers' vehicles with gunfire.
Colombian President Overhauls Military Dan Molinski 2011
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Educational leaders should, of course, be willing to try new things and take the occasional, well-calculated risk.
Justin Snider: The Transformative Power of Failure? Justin Snider 2010
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