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Whether the firm or its shareholders and other stakeholders spent the money was beside the point.
The next day, back on Manezhnaya Square, beside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a huge swastika appeared.
This opt-in approach has some critics, but whether a program is categorized as “voluntary” or “mandatory” is beside the point, because international accords generally apply only to the sovereign countries that have decided to join them.
Perhaps not coincidentally, when a spokesperson for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats was asked to comment on the Ethics Council’s recommendation, she also said something completely beside the point, referring to the need to protect children.
In a recent commentary, the sociologist Michael Kimmel described an Iowa case in which a 33-year-old dental technician, Melissa Nelson, was fired by her male boss, not for issues related to her job performance, but because he found her too sexually attractive to work beside without fear of jeopardizing his marital vows.
Beside Gazprom, the banking system is Russia’s economic black hole.
But for the aam aadmi – the common man in whose name every party claims to speak – these debates pale in significance beside the major steps taken to build a social safety net in a country where everyone had been expected to fend for himself.
In 1960, Kennedy was beamed into American homes, standing beside the better-known but far less charming Richard Nixon.
When asked by a journalist what I would like to say to Saif al-Islam if I were ever to meet him again, I replied: “I hope to see you in the International Criminal Court, beside Mubarak and Ben Ali.”Millions of Arabs of my generation and younger would probably give the same answer if asked what should become of the men who controlled their present and sought to destroy their future.
Yet there he lay, and with a copy of my book The Man Died beside him.
Scientific CapitalismPRINCETON – To understand how we got ourselves into our current economic mess, complicated explanations about derivatives, regulatory failure, and so on are beside the point.
But looking down on the scene from the half-finished Morgan Centre, the luxury apartment complex (where annual rents are $800,000) and seven-star hotel that is arising beside the Olympic site, one is awestruck not only by the project’s grandeur, but by its design daring.
Beside it is the stunning “water cube,” or Aquatics Center, of Chinese/Australian design.
It is hardly surprising that after the Games, the Chinese Communist Party’s leaders plan to vacate their retro pavilions in Zhongnanhai, the cloistered compound beside the Forbidden City, to move to a new “campus” adjacent to the Olympic Green, China’s new power center.
All of this may be beside the point, for it is the threat of financial sanctions under the Pact that inspired governments to seek to reform its rules.
Rogoff’s discussion about the debts accumulated after WWII is beside the point.
But that is beside the point.
The reasons invoked by Correa (legal concerns about how the bonds were issued in the 2000 debt exchange) were beside the point.
When it comes to the Koreas, this question may seem to be beside the point, given the ruthless purge now underway in the North.
It may well be time for another technocratic push: a Fiscal Stabilization Board that would take its place beside the Federal Reserve Board.
The image of young Caroline – the inspiration for Neil Diamond’s famous song – solemnly standing beside her three-year-old brother as he saluted his father’s coffin is deeply engrained in the hearts of Japan’s people.
My hope is that one day a vibrant outdoor café will sit beside a renovated Muslim-owned building in Srebrenica, where people of diverse heritage speak knowingly of the past and optimistically of their common future.
I don’t want to shake your hand;I don’t want to sit beside you;I won’t listen when you talk….
In Israel’s lively market of ideological debates, the fact that Livni is a woman is almost beside the point.
Still others dismiss the change in Chinese exchange-rate policy as beside the point.
Giving lectures about fiscal prudence is beside the point.
But genuine realism, unfortunately, is beside the point.
In the plaques beside the paintings, MoMA referred to Trump’s order explicitly, and asserted that it had hung the paintings to “affirm the ideals of welcome and freedom” that are vital to the US.
More broadly, whereas the discussion about reforming eurozone economic governance has long focused on enhancing risk-sharing mechanisms to strengthen resilience against economic shocks and financial crises, that emphasis is somewhat beside the point in Italy’s case, because it offers no cure for structural weakness.
For members of Trump’s economic councils, no less than for members of his administration, standing beside the president amounted to standing with him.
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