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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

John Locke

This broadband-wireless network is one of the largest citywide deployments to date in the United States and will demonstrate the 'digital city' concept whereby government employees and the public have wireless high-speed data access anywhere in the city.

Hugh Taylor

BSA has decided to run a course whereby officials will be empowered with special skills to be more professional when handling key fights. As BSA, we are concerned about the manner in which some of our officials spoil our fights with bad decisions.

Krish Naidoo

Helping customers manage their bills is also a priority. This includes encouraging customers to take advantage of 'Budget Billing,' whereby they can spread their bills evenly over the year, avoiding the jumps that come with higher usage in summer and winter.

Tom Graham

When I went to the UW and I first started taking my classes, he gave me guidance as to what courses to take. He made sure I took the core classes whereby I'd get my degree on time, which is what I did.

Charles Mitchell

Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room with- out managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.

Judith Crist

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Robert Southey

Our goal was to provide a system whereby people could share information over the internet without revealing their identity and without permitting any form of government censorship.

Brian Clarke

The rising number of cases and deaths indicates that something may have happened to that system whereby some breeding places have gone unnoticed and therefore uncontrolled.

Kevin Palmer

It provides a mechanism whereby Revenue might learn about tax avoidance schemes quicker than they might otherwise.

David Smyth

Logic dictates contractors can't be self-employed and employees simultaneously. It might only be a matter of time before we see truly joined up government, whereby claims by contractors for employment rights automatically trigger tax investigations.

Matthew Brown

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne. Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation. For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her. To History she'll be no royal riddle - Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle. .

Ambrose Bierce

FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. The savage dies -- they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse. Our friends expire -- we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it to the sky. .

Ambrose Bierce

A group of foreign nationals returned to the settlement after the December 26 incident and were met with resistance from the locals. A fight erupted between the two groups whereby several people were injured and two confirmed dead.

Katlego Mogale

ABRACADABRA. By _Abracadabra_ we signify An infinite number of things. 'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why? And Whence? and Whither? - a word whereby The Truth (with the comfort it brings) Is open to all who grope in night, Crying for Wisdom's holy light. Whether the word is a verb or a noun Is knowledge beyond my reach. I only know that.

Ambrose Bierce

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

Christopher Nolan

We see this as a platform whereby we can build much better consumer information. This is just one step in getting better prescribing information to the people who need it.

Dr. Janet Woodcock

What if we're seeing the stirrings of 'Dutch disease', whereby windfall gains from commodity industries push up the currency so as to squeeze activity in more productive sectors like manufacturing?

David T. Wolf

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Benjamin Whichcote

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Matthew Hale

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Christopher Hampton

We're excited about the prospect of providing a benefit whereby First State Bank employees can become more physically active, and increase control over and improve their health.

Martin Rowe

Consider Christmas—could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating—all in the name of the lowly Jesus?

Upton Sinclair

Snobbery exists in all areas of life, not least literary criticism. By snobbery I mean, any method of judging someone or something whereby you latch on to one or two features about them/it, and use these to come to a definitive, immovable judgement. In intellectual matters, the snob will often take the external features of a work as a guide to its value.

Alain De Botton

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Laurence J. Peter

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo sum_ - whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: _Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum_ - 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;' as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

Ambrose Bierce

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

James Macgregor Burns

Instead of focusing on opening new stores, the company is investing on improving its existing stores, ... Second, McDonald's is doing a good job with product innovation and improving quality. It's a philosophical change whereby instead of selling burgers cheaply, it's now selling better menu items at a higher price and consumers are paying for it.

John Glass

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Daniel P. Moynihan

As we intensify our commitment to the independent music community, we wanted to develop a structure whereby the resources available to independent labels and artists could be housed under one umbrella.

John Esposito

He's going to develop players who are going to serve the country for the next 10 years unlike the current situation whereby he works with the players for four years before they retire.

Tabengwa Mothusi

Now the next question is, Can we get justice in Pennsylvania? I'm hoping that there's a little kernel of integrity left in the courts whereby we can. But the people, 12 million people, will be watching.

Gene Stilp

The MCC maintain that the epoxy that is used as adhesive to glue the covering to the wood of the blade, produces some molecular reaction, whereby the carbon graphite can be considered as part of the blade. The fact that 60 per cent of bats with manufactured coverings use such epoxy does not seem to have been a consideration.

Tim May

WAS Katrina a man-made storm for profits? ... Just about every human being is totally unaware that technology exists now whereby weather can be used as a weapon of mass destruction.

Michael Shore

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

ALLEGIANCE, n. This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. G.J.

Ambrose Bierce

Helping customers manage their bills is a priority for us. This includes encouraging customers to take advantage of 'Budget Billing,' whereby they can spread their bills evenly over the year, thus avoiding the jumps that come with higher usage in summer and winter.

Gary Stockbridge

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Ambrose Bierce

We believe we are at a tipping point whereby the anti-war sentiment has now become the majority sentiment.

Brian Becker

But if you can build a culture whereby people are empowered and they want to be empowered, it will work. It sounds like it's working for this particular company.

Richard Reed

PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. 'Persevere, persevere!' cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl. 'Remember the fable of tortoise and hare -- The one at the goal while the other is -- where?' Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peac.

Ambrose Bierce

There is a culture whereby it's more likely for women to work in distribution jobs than in trading.

Clare Harris

There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least... Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.

William S. Cohen

RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

Ambrose Bierce

By my assessment, I am looking at an optimistic scenario whereby I hope the combination of the two biggest parties will lead to tackling of the problems.

Gerrit Zalm

We can see a route whereby our existing capability is applied to others' customers and back-office costs and operating synergies can be achieved.

William Allan

For a lot of these people, it's not good business to be sending out this material to people who don't want to receive it. For legitimate companies out there, they want to keep this material out of the hands of young people. This provides a mechanism whereby they can do that.

Matthew Prince