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While the possible contributors and factors of the constantly changing business environment could be endlessly listed, there is still one, which simply cannot be left out, not even from this confessedly limited list: the constant need for innovation.
Making decisions in an ever-changing environment--a research agenda
body, substance, monad, confessedly setting aside some otherwise central questions in other fields of Leibniz's interests like theodicy, necessity, logic, etc.
Daniel Garber: Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad
at 346 (reasoning that "[e]ven in compositions confessedly literary, [an] author may not intend .
The normativity of copying in copyright law
Likewise, I think, the younger Lissitzky also remained loyal not only to the basic artistic principles but also to the elevated artistic attitude of his teacher, even as he became a first-generation Constructivist, aware that confessedly 'materialist' Constructivism had an axe to grind against anything so unapologetically metaphysical as a mode of useless abstract painting making embarrassingly spiritual claims.
El lissitsky: on the side of faith: Joseph Masheck discover remnants of faith in Russian Constructivist art
It is a confessedly circular theory: causation is explained in terms of powers; powers in terms of dispositions (causes) towards some types of manifestations (effects).
Mumford, Stephen and Rani Lill Anjum. Getting Causes from Powers
See ON LIBERTY, supra note 25, at 47 ("[P]rotection against themselves is confessedly due to children and persons under age.
Children's freedom of speech and expressive maturity
Our marriage laws are confessedly imperfect, and open to hair breadth escapes, which offer a fascinating complication, not devoid of probability.
Things little girls have no business to know anything about: the crimes of Aurora Floyd
Supposing that destiny, or interest, or chance, or what you will, has united a man, confessedly of a weak understanding, and corporeal debility, to a woman strong in the powers of intellect, and capable of bearing the fatigues of busy life: is it not degrading to humanity that such a woman should be the passive, and obedient slave, of such an husband?
"My poor mistress": marital cruelty in The History of Mary Prince
That sheet, confessedly democratic, maintains, that slavery is correct in principle; that it is the national, normal, logical condition of the race of man, and that that principle is as applicable to the white man as well as to the black.
A difference of complexion: George Fitzhugh and the birth of the Republican Party
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

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