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Darwin himself had noted that "the existence of free gemmules is a gratuitous assumption"; by some accounts in modern interpretation, gemmules may be considered...

to the decrees of the Council of Nimes, c. 394–396, but it is a gratuitous assumption of Albanés inGallia christiana novissima (pp. 26-27) that he was...

nursing of the sick poor in their own homes. This labour they perform gratuitously and without distinction of creed. The congregation was founded in Paris...

negotiated compromise" that "would protect Muslim sensibilities against gratuitous provocation". The journalist and author Andy McSmith wrote at the time...

Various reasons have been provided for this gratuitous cartridge, one of which being a mistaken assumption that there were big cats in the region where...

personal actual sins. It makes a person a member of the church. As a gratuitous gift of God that requires no merit on the part of the person who is baptized...

a measure of their importance to a particular movie or the lack of a gratuitous link to white actors. Nadia Latif and Leila Latif of The Guardian suggested...

but little research had been done, reflecting the generally negative assumptions surrounding public nudity. Recent studies indicate not only that social...

may arise not only in cases where the relevant services are rendered gratuitously, but also where they are rendered under a contract. This indeed is the...

varied responses from film critics, with some commending it for its non-gratuitous violence and plot twists, while others lambasted it for its surprise ending...

consideration is generally not enforceable. It is known as a bare or gratuitous promise. Thus, if a car salesman promises a potential buyer not to sell...

eponymous character's. Nor can I see any young woman during the 1920s gratuitously going into a gents' toilets, as Eden is shown doing, for any reason at...

Critics such as Berardinelli and Siskel found the gore excessive and "gratuitous". While some found the violent visuals to be tiresome and detracting,...

apprehensive about how the contemporary Maya will take it." The film's focus on "gratuitous violence" led Julia Guernsey, a professor of Mesoamerican art and culture...

movie, with all the explosions, special effects, ersatz sentimentality, gratuitous cleavage, and emphasis on spectacle over coherence that the term implies...

Draper: Gratuitous evils exist. The hypothesis of indifference, i.e., that if there are supernatural beings they are indifferent to gratuitous evils, is...

Miami use murder to frame each episode, underscoring the presence of gratuitous and dramatic violence. The idea of dramatic violence reinforces the relationship...

version, it is a gratuitous speculation". A further criticism by Mosterín concerns the flawed "anthropic" inference from the assumption of an infinity of...

consul Richard Burton visited Benin in 1862 he described it a place of "gratuitous barbarity which stinks of death", a narrative which was publicized in...

officers of the TSG performed what a judge in 2009 called a "serious, gratuitous and prolonged" assault and "religious abuse" on suspect, Babar Ahmad,...