While some are valid, many are questionable, if not fabricated entirely out of whole cloth.
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But even determined punkers don't just create a new musical vocabulary out of whole cloth.
Did the China Times make up this quote out of whole cloth, or were Huang and Kong speaking out of turn?
Although the hero created himself out of the whole cloth of romantic yearning, we see almost nothing of that self-creation, only the conflicted result.
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In order to lure investors, Michael Katz and Christopher Fardella created resumes and marketing materials for their phony investment fund out of whole cloth.
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Marketers could start looking inward and challenge their businesses to be truly better and different, and stop volunteering to invent those qualities out of whole cloth.
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Battlefield acupuncture was invented out of whole cloth by military doctor Richard Niemtzow, who runs an acupuncture clinic out of Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
He and the firm created almost out of whole cloth the high yield bond market that financed so many cutting-edge corporate entities in the 1970s and 1980s.
The reason was simple, if a tribunal was to be established from whole cloth, without an existing body of law, the sanction of world approval and participation was essential.
But the new "Ask Merrill" campaign has taken the genre a step further, fabricating from whole cloth a series of successful people with names, histories and meticulously detailed stage sets.
The U.K. newspaper The Daily Mail, clearly have lost all sense of rationality, seems to have invented out of whole cloth the idea that Facebook might want to buy Research In Motion.
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How can the due process clause he cited--"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"--be used to create a new "right" out of whole cloth?
Then, in his blog post last week, he repeats incorrect information about the genesis of the Exchange being plagued by anti-selection, which he appears to have made up from whole cloth for an earlier blog post.
And although the Drudge Report has been guilty of some rumormongering, there is no evidence that Matt Drudge--or any other online journalist--has ever made up a story out of whole cloth, like The New Republics Stephen Glass.
"These factual errors lead (the government) to believe ... that the media is getting information from hoaxers, fraudsters, or maybe from nobody at all by creating fake 'law enforcement sources' out of whole cloth, " prosecutors said in their filing.
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What could be more American than Fume Blanc, a wine that was essentially made up here on our shores out of whole cloth, invented to help California differentiate itself and pull out from under the shadow of French wines, something it has long since done.
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Otherwise, Paul Ryan a man whose own living has long come solely at the expense of the American taxpayer is simply making this stuff up out of whole cloth and, in the process, deeply offending the millions of Americans who want more than anything to find work and get ahead but are struggling to do so.
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So also in matters of royal style: Alexander mixed his purple with plain white cloth, avoiding the temptation to go whole-hog despot.
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