And, eventually, long overdue, he comes to an understanding of the true conditions of existence.

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Most Basque political parties, still wrangling over forming a regional government after last month's elections, talk also of the existence of favourable conditions for peace.

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Just last week Brazil and its allies in the Southern Cone supported the inclusion of Venezuela in Mercosur, the South American common market, despite Chavez's anti-democratic practices which contradicts the group's clause that conditions membership on the existence of fully democratic institutions.

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Israel's political right was correct in warning that the government's security-endangering concessions and its willingness to redivide Jerusalem wouldn't bring a lasting peace, and that turning a blind eye to Arafat's oppressive and corrupt dictatorship and ignoring Palestinian textbooks that excoriate Jews as the scum of the earth wouldn't create conditions among Arabs for the acceptance of the Jewish state's existence.

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The forces driving up Chinese wages, improving working conditions, are far larger and more powerful than the existence of an independent union or not.

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We tend to lose track of companies that no longer exist and we rarely have any inkling of all those planned businesses that might have come into existence had business conditions, such as tax burdens, been better.

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It affects almost every aspect of human life, from food and water to public safety, as cash-strapped states and cities and towns try to deal with massive wildfires, and the conditions are almost assuredly a result of, and exacerbated by, the global climate crisis the existence of which one entire half of our political spectrum is dedicated to denying.

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Man-made rulings are reasons or conditions or prohibitions which the lawmaker has put in place which by their existence either affirm or deny the rulings of the Shari'a.

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