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And whether the specific expert testimony focuses upon specialized observations, the specialized translation of those observations into theory, a specialized theory itself, or the application of such a theory in a particular case, the expert's testimony often will rest "upon an experience confessedly foreign in kind to [the jury's] own.
Witnessing the witness: the case for exclusion of eyewitness expert testimony
43) Confessedly, none of this community, or "com-unity," diminishes the historical and contemporary fact that distortional religions can also be conveyances for extreme sectarianism and divisive dogmatism.
A politics of pluralism in American democracy: Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian realism as a national resource in a post-9/11 world
No matter how determined the classificatory system of the nosology, nostalgia is confessedly misplaced, and the volitional and the autonomic blur.
Nostalgia, melancholy, anxiety: discursive mobility and the circulation of bodies
Though I find it exceedingly difficult to extend any measure of clemency in a case involving the despicable crime of which this convict was confessedly guilty, yet I think that this is an exceptional case of its class.
The twilight of the pardon power
The allegorist leaves the world of the given--his own passions--to talk of that which is confessedly less real, which is a fiction.
The place of the self in C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce: a marriage of the "two Lewises"
The volume, for example, gives us a mature Bunyan very sure of his place in two metaphysically unequal, conjugal worlds (one, seemingly, to be suffered with few companionable benefits of"real" value in a fleshly and legal here and now and the other to be enjoyed in the hereafter by way of eternal union with the heavenly Christ) and a younger Bunyan, the subject of a confessedly "speculative" psychoanalytical inquiry, who lacks all semblance of assurance and stability in troubling religious, political, military, and familial domains.
Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan
48) As Raoul Berger states: "Since lawmaking confessedly needs to be based on an
Note: the negative executive privilege
The Wild happens to be being killed by a culture that has openly and confessedly intended to eradicate, eliminate the wild, to conquer, tame, subjugate and destroy it all -- a culture that is the active enemy of all life -- certainly of all self-willed -- wild life.
Lessons of Gaza: Apocalypse No! Part 8
Everywhere on earth, save where the enlightenment of the modern age is confessedly in eclipse, the movement is toward the completer and more enamored enfranchisement of the lower orders.
Boss Mob: the sage of Baltimore on the ideology that makes mediocrity a virtue
Confessedly, immunity is not clearly either a "mode of
Mandatory rules
This is usually implicit: in the judicial context, consider Justice Brandeis's famous formulation, which summarized various legal techniques for avoiding "unnecessary" constitutional questions and confrontations as rules the Court has "developed[] for its own governance in the cases confessedly within its jurisdiction.
Constitutional showdowns
When investigating a biblical text, confessedly Christian Old Testament scholars like myself can never be satisfied with having parsed Hebrew verbs, grasped the literary beauty of the narrative, felt the pathos of the psalmist, or appreciated the rhetoric of the prophets.
Israel and the Nations: A Mission Theology of the Old Testament

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