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Although one may be tempted to follow the colonial accounts and see these as generalized, unvaried forms of action, more historical specificity may be hypothesized.

On these grounds alone, therefore, one should be tempted to conclude in favour of autonomous models.

Once again, it is tempting to interpret the outcome as a by-product of the historical heritage.

One is tempted to say that this is a consumerist vision of the church.

With few exceptions, the only incumbents who were tempted to defect from the party in power were those who supported political reform.

At no point will he be tempted to form the belief that a person is present.

I am tempted to say, however, that it still remains to be seen.

Drawing on some of our interview material one is tempted to link such complaints to our respondents' experience of social and cultural discontinuity.

Although it is tempting to identify these men as holding calpolli or altepetl leadership positions, that cannot be suppor ted without additional data.

Furthermore, the chapter is written in a style that is too abstract (from ' first principles ', one is tempted to say).

Only ' 'unbelievers' ' (kafiruna) may be - tempted to assign a period of time to it.

Thus, it is tempting to conceptualize activation in the model to be direction-specific.

The analogy is undeniably striking, and one is tempted to conjecture similar results for higher-dimensional diagrams.

One is tempted to answer: "a theory of mind"; but obviously this is not their answer.

One is further tempted to speculate that the transition is a precursor to final period decay described by equation (7).

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