Word: insofar
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...least tacitly, many of Bush's critics accept that goal. Insofar as there were intelligible themes in last week's cacophony of kibitzing, ends were less at issue than means. Bush has been relying on a combination of political, economic and military pressures. His decision two weeks ago to beef up the U.S. armed presence is consistent with his previous action and rhetoric. The buildup is also compatible with his preference for peaceful suasion. Unless the threat of force is credible, diplomacy and sanctions don't stand a chance...
...Harvard students sincerely want a peaceful transition to majority rule in South Africa, we should support American economic involvement only insofar as it provides maximum empowerment and economic benefits to Blacks and minimum economic benefits to the apartheid state...
...Harvard is not supportive of people who take time off insofar as you don't get credit," says Barrow. "It is a certain insularity on the part of Harvard. It's almost as if they are saying `how could you want...
Mezhirov understands that heroic exploits are not ends in themselves but are worthwhile only insofar as they enable other people to lead normal, peaceful lives. Not everyone need spend time in the trenches. The meaning of life is life itself: the daily routine that demands its own unobtrusive heroism. Goethe's lines are often read as an imperative call to revolutionary struggle, but there is nothing peremptory or fanatical in them once they are stripped of their poetic imagery. Reflections rejected all extremes, the intransigence of revolutionaries and reactionaries alike. It called for compromise and for progress moderated by enlightened...
...drug, it can be stimulant as well as sedative. And the culture that seems to be taking over the future is a culture so advanced in imagemaking that it advertises its new sports cars with two-page photographs of rocks (though the Japanese, perhaps, enjoy an advantage over us insofar as their partly ideogrammatic language encourages them to think in terms of images: haiku are the music videos of the printed word). Nor would this be the first time that technology has changed the very way we speak: the invention of typography alone, as Neil Postman writes, "created prose...