How To Use In and of itself In A Sentence
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Surely the physical definition implicit in ascribing masculinity to the divine is a contradiction of omnipotence in and of itself.
Archive 2007-04-01
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The administration's decision has reignited debate over whether affirmative action is an effective tool against racism, or a racist policy in and of itself.
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Computer hardware in and of itself does not provide a particularly useful mind tool.
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Of course, while Brown sets himself up as using a skeptic and a debunker of frauds and charlatons with no real agenda in and of itself, he still has an agenda . . . to entertain us through confusion, confoundment, and illusion . . . and, he's quite good at it.
Life of Brian:
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The teleological argument is implicit: to observe the complex order evident in existential reality is, in and of itself, the decisive action of verification; such complex order can only arise from design, so to establish the epistemic certainty of such complex order is to establish the epistemic certainty of the action of design having been carried out by a designing agency.
Towards a Lexicon of Folly: Factard
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Any coin that caries the NORWEB pedigree is special in and of itself.
The Best and the Worst of 2008 : Coin Collecting News
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Even though it's 2011, we're still litigating whether rap music in and of itself is a societal corrosive or an artistic expression that channels raw experience and expurgates emotions in the form of a...
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The ABA issue doesn't depend on whether tenure is a good idea, in and of itself, does it?
Balkinization
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In the UK, the word is condemnatory of any abhorrently vicious person, but that condemnation, as an action in and of itself, is not judged morally obscene.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Rejecting the autotelic meaning offered in the narrative in and of itself, these readings become attempts to bind it to an "objective reality" which, in a postmodernist view, does not exist.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism)
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So it's not inequality in and of itself, it's the belief that inequality is simply not conquerable.
More Americans Giving Up On The American Dream
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I think in many ways it's antiquated as Victoria said, but I don't think that antiquation is in and of itself a justification for wholesale disregard of it with respect to the things that it covers, whatever counts as domestic surveillance.
CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006
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This suggests that pleural carcinomatosis represents a final common pathway in metastatic disease, and may not, in and of itself, be indicative of a poor prognosis.
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Most people don't comprehend that a spreadsheet is a computer program in and of itself.
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Though it was a lot more work then my usual compositing which is work in and of itself.
Life's Time Capsule: Making of Karoo Sunset
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Another was more understated and had no caretakers but effused solemn peace in and of itself.
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A preshow supper at Mamma Leone's on 48th Street seemed theater enough in and of itself.
A New Yorker Is Born
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His bondage art often captures that exact aesthetic I previously described, which I consider nearly a fetish in and of itself.
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A wired world with roots in the air instead of the soil does not in and of itself add up to a cosmopolitan culture.
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It was the writer's recommendations of where else to read, as much as it was something to read in and of itself.
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A manic episode is not a disorder in and of itself, but rather is a part of a type of bipolar disorder.
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Tricuspid insufficiency is usually an acquired defect, and not generally listed in textbooks as a congential cardiac anomaly in and of itself, but usually in conjunction with other cardiac anomalies.
Archive 2003-06-01
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In and of itself, mentoring is not likely to be an effective strategy for preventing crime, or for directly solving serious social problems which are multiply determined.
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It stands as an act of loathsome brutality in and of itself - fair enough.
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Even though it's 2011, we're still litigating whether rap music in and of itself is a societal corrosive or an artistic expression that channels raw experience and expurgates emotions in the form of a catharsis.
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However I will add that acupuncture is a false therapy … in and of itself … unless the receiver happens to believe that it heals.
Battlefield Acupuncture « Biodork
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Impressing people is not a particularly great accomplishment in and of itself.
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Weight loss in and of itself is probably not the panacea you are looking for.
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You are so concerned about it that the worry is causing the problem in and of itself.
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In other words, that you got mugged is not in and of itself proof that the police, sheriff's dept., etc. incompetently or negligently performed their job (protecting you), and you would have no grounds to sue them solely on that basis.
Our Supreme Moment
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As we saw above, Spinoza adopted the traditional conception of substance as that which can exist in and of itself, and is not dependent on anything else.
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In it, the Leader of the seder (usually a father, grandfather, or guest of honor) recites a series of God's blessings on the Jewish people, to which the assembled express thanks and proclaim that each benison, in and of itself, would have been "enough.
Ellis Weiner: A Public Service from The Huffington Post: Dayenu 5766
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Some consider a fanzine a stepping stone toward building a pro career, but a fanzine is really a glorious thing in and of itself.
Review
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Not of interest in and of itself, true, but it means that I can pepper my meat and two veg with a little colourful spice.
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The word infiltration in and of itself would suggest that someone is trying to get something or spying of some sort, is there not?
CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2009
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Providing a safe and healing environment in which they can unburden themselves of at least some of this load is a healing in and of itself.
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I am not satisfied that an alienation or transfer of property, in and of itself, is a sufficient basis on which to imply a trust of that property.
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If you have a being that is not sentient, that is not even aware, then the killing of that being is not something that is wrong in and of itself.
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You can wash your hands prior to eating or drinking anything and that in and of itself will cut down on your exposure from these fomites, like door knobs.
CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2004
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And third, the revolution must effect systemic social change: Changing individual lives - by killing them or by educating them, by preaching or poetizing at them - will not in and of itself effect global social change.
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Watching her bathe was a sensual event in and of itself.
Larger Than Lyfe
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An added bad intention (such as vainglory) makes an act evil that, in and of itself, can be good (such as almsgiving) (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1752-1753)
Justification by Faith, or Faith and Works
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There are counterarguments - that winning in and of itself doesn't prove who's better and even that winning decisively doesn't mean that the same team would do so again if the teams were to meet next week.
Christopher Liss: NFL Playoff Observations -- Divisional Round
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More than likely, the misbehavior is a symptom of a problem, rather than the problem in and of itself.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: November 2004 Archives
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Although this step does break the logjam to some extent, it is not exactly a huge breakthrough in and of itself.
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After all, it is uptake and use that drive the real economic benefits, not speed in and of itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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In and of itself, cork in landfills is not necessarily a bad thing, but increasing the use of fossil fuels to transport it negates the recycling effort.
Corkfinger - Amorim, ReCORK America and cork recycling | Dr Vino's wine blog
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In other words, religion is our way of making sense out of nonsense, necessary precisely because life, in and of itself, may well be meaningless.
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Yet Harris foregoes mention of this salient fact entirely, arguably an absolute, archimedean point in and of itself.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The ascription of an alethic morphology to the mass of epistemic certainties is always ultimately a premise in and of itself, a supposition of relevance.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
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All right, first of all, I've been reading your columns and you're strangely optimistic this year and that in and of itself can hex the Red Sox as we know.
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Suffering is not some great salvific act in and of itself.
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sublimate" into a rap, and that's an achievement in and of itself.
10 Latest OverClocked ReMixes
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While analogy is not a tainted operation in and of itself, automatic analogy is the means by which presupposition comes to dictate the reading of the text.
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The fact that it was reweighed at the mill does not in and of itself distinguish sugar from cotton in terms of the possibilities for productivity record keeping.
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Only a missionary would see this as a positive step in and of itself.
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It's a fascinating process in and of itself, a skill of elocution mixed with a keen sense of observation.
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It directed that a psychologist's lack of medical training could not, in and of itself, be used to justify an automatic disqualification of psychological testimony.
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In and of itself, this wasn't an offence punishable by death.
Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
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So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself.
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None of these cultural differences is in and of itself a showstopper.
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Does this mean that any legitimate inquiry into the qualifications, competence and performance of the official in and of itself labels the enquirer a racist?
ANC Daily News Briefing
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So I have to ad-lib the thing, which in and of itself is hard, but I can hardly see the prompter.
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It is not in and of itself a racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise asininely bigoted slur.
Archive 2009-01-01
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While this reclassification is still unknown, it is a debatable subject as the actual speciation of cougars is debated in and of itself.
Archive 2007-03-01
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For the unseasoned occasional voyager west of the Humber River the trip to Toronto is in and of itself, daunting.
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It might be argued that this dichotomy is a relatively late development of Western/European culture, that Art in this sense does not exist until it separates itself out from Religion and Craft, becoming a distinct discourse with its own ethos only in the context of post-renaissance capitalism where it becomes valuable in and of itself.
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