| 1. | "
According to Comrie (1976) the most basic aspectual distinction in
languages is perfective vs. imperfective: a speaker uses the perfective
to express an outside view of a situation, and the imperfective to
express the internal temporal constituency of a situation."
| Source: | HOWARD, KATHRYN. "The notion of current relevance in the Thai perfect" Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences 38.2 Mar. 1 2000: 373
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| 2. | "... to
choose among conflicting and incompatible natural desires; and, more
seriously, its lack of a theory of social justice to resolve the
conflicts of interest that inevitably arise as people go about the
business of pursuing their happiness."
| Source: | Langton, John. "Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of HumanNature" American Political Science Review 93.4 Dec. 1 1999: 947
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| 3. | "... the face, both he and she,
the odd ambition, the desire
to reach beyond the stars
is You. all You, all You
the loneliness, the perfect
imperfection."
| Source: | GLASER, MICHAEL S. "I'd Like Not to Be a Stranger in the World: A Conversation/Interview with Lucille Clifton" Antioch Review 58.3 June 22 2000: 310
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| 4. | " However, it should be kept in
mind that once policymakers have formed a view of the likely duration of
terms of trade shocks, their desired policy response may be constrained
by financial market imperfections."
| Source: | Cashin, Paul,Pattillo, Catherine. "The Duration of Terms of Trade Shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa" Finance & Development 37.2 June 1 2000: 26
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| 5. | "... that there is no ego
without a comprehending reality to be symbolized as the perfection
toward which the imaginative ego strives." To put the paradox more
plainly, the experience of imperfection and contingency (a doubting and
desiring ego) implies..."
| Source: | McMahon, Robert. "Eric Voegelin's paradoxes of consciousness and participation" Review of Politics 61.1 Jan. 1 1999: 117-119
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| 6. | "... would satisfy Jurnove's
aesthetic tastes.(193) Ignoring that such analysis forecloses litigation
challenging an agency's failure to promulgate standards since it is
never clear whether the desired impact will occur, the dissent is
content to decide redressability on the fact..."
| Source: | Smith, Rob Roy. "Standing on their own four legs: the future of animal welfare litigation after Animal Legal Defense Fund, Inc. v. Glickman" Environmental Law 29.4 Dec. 22 1999: 989
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| 7. | "
When markets have imperfections and when information about
alternative trading partners is limited, the desire to keep trading with
a partner can provide an incentive for performance."
| Source: | HENDLEY, KATHRYN,MURRELL, PETER,RYTERMAN, RANDI. "Law, Relationships and Private Enforcement: Transactional Strategies of Russian Enterprises" Europe-Asia Studies 52.4 June 1 2000: 627
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| 8. | "... is this deficit of collective
action (rather than of 'market imperfections'), that is
responsible for a wide range of developmental failures (which are
elsewhere identified as also being the signal failures of the state)
(pp.66-76)."
| Source: | HARRISS-WHITE, BARBARA. "Economic Development in Palanpur over Five Decades" Journal of Development Studies 36.1 Oct. 1 1999: 162
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| 9. | "
Nevertheless, small failures or imperfections have important
implications for monitoring."
| Source: | Mumaw, Randall J.,Roth, Emilie M.,Vicente, Kim J.,Burns, Catherine M. "There Is More to Monitoring a Nuclear Power Plant than Meets the Eye" Human Factors 42.1 Mar. 22 2000: 36
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| 10. | " See
William E. Odum, Environmental Degradation and the Tyranny of Small
Decisions, 32 BIOSCIENCE 728 (1982); Alfred E. Kahn, The Tyranny of
Small Decisions: Market Failures, Imperfections, and the Limits of
Economics, 19 KYKLOS: INT'L. REV."
| Source: | Weiland, Paul S. "Environment in context" UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 18.1 June 22 2000: 131
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| 11. | "... leads to
the weak-willed person's failure to act, but such an imperfection
cannot be improved by a purely intellectual learning alone."
| Source: | Jiang, Xinyan. "WHAT KIND OF KNOWLEDGE DOES A WEAK-WILLED PERSON HAVE?--A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ARISTOTLE AND THE CH'ENG-CHU SCHOOL" Philosophy East and West 50.2 Apr. 1 2000: 242
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| 12. | " The absence of such choices implies
a constrained internationalizing situation, where the firm cannot treat
such market failures and imperfections as constants, givens, or as
exogenous variables."
| Source: | Sarkar, M.B.,Cavusgil, S. Tamer,Aulakh, Preet S. "International expansion of telecommunication carriers: the influence of market structure, network characteristics, and entry imperfections" Journal of International Business Studies 30.2 June 22 1999: 361-363
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| 13. | " Undoubtedly, due to such imperfections, some viable business
propositions are refused funding but this is not evidence of widespread
market failure."
| Source: | Curran, James. "The Entrepreneurial Society" International Small Business Journal v16.n4 July 1 1998: 119-123
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| 14. | " Marriage's importance
transcended the temporal happiness of the couple; yet marriage was also
conceived of as an ultimately private arrangement."
| Source: | Berend, Zsuzsa. ""THE BEST OR NONE!" SPINSTERHOOD IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND" Journal of Social History 33.4 June 22 2000: 935
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| 15. | " According to Dante, the "supreme
pontiff" is entrusted with the task of leading men to "life
eternal"; the emperor is concerned with their "temporal
happiness." There is a division of ends within proper human life."
| Source: | Ryn, Claes G. "The Politics of Transcendence: The Pretentious Passivity of Platonic Idealism" Humanitas 12.2 Sept. 22 1999: 4
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| 16. | "
An important factor for the high failure probability of start-ups
and hence the missing potential to create more employment are several
imperfections on the German capital market."
| Source: | Almus, Matthias. "Job creation through public start-up assistance?" Applied Economics 36.18 Oct. 10 2004: 2015-2025
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| 17. | "
To many pro-capitalists, branding is a cause or consequence of
market failure, Made possible by information imperfection, it is a
barrier that free-trade..."
| Source: | Shipman, Alan. "Lauding the leisure class: symbolic content and conspicuous consumption" Review of Social Economy 62.3 Sept. 1 2004: 277-290
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| 18. | "
To the question of how we can reconcile our observations of natural
phenomena with belief in an omniscient and omnipotent designer, one
response might be that claims about flaws in design -- design
imperfections -- are simply mistaken."
| Source: | MYERS, DAVID B. "New design arguments: old Millian objections" Religious Studies 36.2 June 1 2000: 141
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| 19. | " In applying paint to these areas, she
intentionally left traces of her hand visible in order to echo the
naturally occurring imperfections in the glass itself. (This effect is
best appreciated in the..."
| Source: | RUBINSTEIN, RAPHAEL. "Consecrated By Color" Art in America 88.5 May 1 2000: 128
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| 20. | "... ambiguous
relationship to reality because it marked the line between the way
things were and the way they ought to be. (5) As Peter Gay puts it, the
imperfections of positive laws "proved the assertions of natural
law to be organized wishes rather than current realities,..."
| Source: | DiPiero, Thomas. "Missing Links: Whiteness and the color of Reason in the Eighteenth Century" Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 40.2 June 22 1999: 155-176
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| 21. | " If
God is the only true cause, then all the imperfections, disorders, and,
generally, evils in the natural world would seem to be directly
attributable..."
| Source: | PESSIN, ANDREW. "Malebranche's natural theodicy and the incompleteness of God's volitions" Religious Studies 36.1 Mar. 1 2000: 47
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| 22. | " Because the EU
may never fully succeed in establishing truly competitive markets, in
future research, impacts of market imperfections in international
transmission of natural gas and electricity will be investigated."
| Source: | Aune, Finn Roar,Golombek, Rolf,Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.,Rosendahl, Knut Einar. "Liberalizing the energy markets of Western Europe--a computable equilibrium model approach" Applied Economics 36.19 Oct. 20 2004: 2137-2150
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| 23. | " This denial appears most
plausible on the assumption that our lives are like paths which fork,
and our decisions are decisions about which fork will better promote our
happiness or satisfy our interests."
| Source: | Mendus, Susan. "The importance of love in Rawl's Theory of Justice" British Journal of Political Science 29.1 Jan. 1 1999: 57-58
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| 24. | " Some of this is perhaps superficial--consumerism turning its
never-satisfied appetite to the religious realm for one more product to
buy--but much of it is a sober recognition that individuals have not
found happiness in their work, families, and/or community activities."
| Source: | LULL, TIMOTHY F. "Reshaping the Mission of the CHURCH" USA Today (Magazine) 129.2662 July 1 2000: 58
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| 25. | " Because there are no innate ideas
and no natural correspondence between the objects of our experience and
our ideas, or between those ideas and the words we use to express them,
human understanding and language are liable to imperfection."
| Source: | SCOTT, JOHN T. "The Sovereignless State and Locke's Language of Obligation" American Political Science Review 94.3 Sept. 1 2000: 547
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