Word: certainly
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...generally accepted practice among the Ivies concerns the different acceptance standards based on academics. All Ivy League schools must assess their athletes academically before accepting them, but certain schools are given more leeway in this respect to compensate for a less prominent name...
...very young age, girls are taught that certain things are for them and certain things [like science and math] are not for them," she says as Teagan cries in the background...
...There is a disincentive to get married," Scully said. "It makes certain choices difficult. Certain people do not feel uncomfortable moving in together, but others have certain moral or religious beliefs that make it much more difficult [without marriage]. So it's kind of unfair in that respect...
...demurral these days) is an unreliable argument against all capital punishment. What if there are many witnesses to a murder? What if it's Hitler? Is capital punishment OK in cases of unmistakable guilt? George W. Bush says that he reviews each case to make sure he is absolutely certain a person did it before he allows a Texas execution to go ahead...
...have argued in the past that the death penalty was justified, in certain brutal cases, on the basis of the social contract. That is: Some hideous crimes demand the ultimate punishment in order to satisfy the essentially civilizing deal that we make with one another as citizens. We forgo individual revenge, deferring to the law, but depend upon a certainty that the law will give us a justice that must include appropriate harshness. I favored the Texas folk wisdom: "He needs killing." If the law fails in that task, I said, and people see that evil is fecklessly tolerated, then...