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He nodded almost officiously at his brothers, as if to apologize, but spent the first part of the proceedings staring intently at a far wall.
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But MGS 2 considered a similar dilemma: If new protagonist Raiden officiously follows orders from an increasingly preposterous central command, to what extent is he, and by extension the player, really in control?
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Journalist William Pfaff wrote: "It might be argued that socialism ineluctably breeds state bureaucracy, which then imposes its own kinds of restrictions upon individual liberties. This is what the Scandinavians complain about. But Italy's champion bureaucracy owes nothing to socialism. American bureaucracy grows as luxuriantly and behaves as officiously as any other".
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Asimov (1979), pp. 285–7. According to his autobiographical writings, Asimov included the First Law's "inaction" clause because of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem "The Latest Decalogue" (text in Wikisource), which includes the satirical lines "Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive".Asimov, Isaac (1979). In Memory Yet Green. Doubleday.
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Vogons are described as officiously bureaucratic, a line of work at which they perform so well that the entire galactic bureaucracy is run by them. On Vogsphere, the Vogons would sit upon very elegant and beautiful gazelle-like creatures, whose backs would snap instantly if the Vogons tried to ride them. The Vogons were perfectly happy with just sitting on them. Another favourite Vogon pastime is to import millions of beautiful jewel-backed scuttling crabs from their native planet, cut down giant trees of breathtaking beauty, and spend a happy drunken night smashing the crabs to bits with iron mallets and cooking the crab meat by burning the trees.
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The municipal councils in the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region will be elected. These municipalities do not belong to any province. Since 2014, the regional electoral legislation has been modified to forbid lists with only one candidate, officially to enforce the sex parity principle, officiously to evict lists from an Islamist party.Ordonnance assurant la présence minimum de deux candidats sur une liste se présentant aux élections communales, Moniteur belge, 3 April 2014Parlement de la Région de Bruxelles- capitale, Compte rendu intégral, Séance plénière du vendredi 28 mars 2014 (séance du matin) This 'ISLAM' party's leader had announced in April that it would present lists in 14 out of 19 communes.
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As a point of general principle, most courts do not strive to defeat trusts on the basis of uncertainty.See also T Choithram International SA v Pagarani [2001] 2 All ER 492, per Lord Browne-Wilkinson, "Although equity will not aid a volunteer, it will not strive officiously to defeat a gift". In the case of In re RobertsAlso known as Repington v Roberts-Gawen (1881–82) LR 19 Ch D 520 a lady named Miss Roberts wrote in her will that she wanted to leave £8753 and 5 shillings worth of bank annuities to her brother and his children who had the surname of "Roberts-Gawen". Miss Roberts' brother had a daughter who changed her name on marriage, but her son later changed his name back to Roberts-Gawen.
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