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  • 101make a virtue of necessity — {v. phr.} Make the best of things as they are; do cheerfully what you do. * /After Mr. Wilson lost all his money, he made a virtue of necessity and found a new and interesting life as a teacher./ Compare: MAKE THE BEST OF …

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  • 102Certificate of medical necessity — Generally, a Certificate of Medical Necessity is a piece of paper required by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to substantiate the medical necessity of an item of durable medical equipment furnished to a Medicare beneficiary. It is… …

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  • 103Chance and Necessity — is a 1970 book by Jacques Monod, interpreting the processes of evolution to show that life is only the result of natural processes by pure chance . It has been described as a manifesto of materialist biology in the most reductivist sense .[1] The …

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  • 104The Right To Be Greedy: Theses On The Practical Necessity Of Demanding Everything — o El derecho a ser codicioso: postulados en la necesidad practica de demandarlo todo es un libro publicado en 1974 por un colectivo situacionista estadounidense llamado For Ourselves: Council for Generalized Self Management ( Por Nosotros:… …

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  • 105manifest necessity — n: a circumstance (as an incurable pleading defect, the unavailability of an essential witness, juror misconduct, or illness of counsel) which is of such an overwhelming and unforeseeable nature that the conduct of trial or reaching of a fair… …

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  • 106way of necessity — A way acquired by an owner of land so situated that it is physically inaccessible to a public highway. Tomten v Thomas, 125 Mont 159, 232 P2d 723, 26 ALR2d 1285. An easement founded on an implied grant or implied reservation, arising where there… …

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  • 107A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain — is a philosophical pamphlet by Benjamin Franklin, published in London in 1725.It argues that an omnipotent, benevolent God is incompatible with notions of human free will and morality.External links*… …

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  • 108private necessity — n. A necessity that includes only the personal interest of the defendant and, therefore, confers only a limited privilege or justification. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 …

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  • 109agent of necessity — UK US noun [C] (plural agents of necessity) LAW ► someone who represents another person in an emergency, but who has not officially been given the right to do so …

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  • 110certificate of convenience and necessity — certificate of con·ve·nience and necessity: a certificate issued by an agency granting a company authority to operate a public service esp. as a utility or transportation company Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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