1.  Although Republican opponents, led by Sen. Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo., give philosophical reasons for delaying the bill, there is a political calculation as well.

2.  And while his tone was strongly conservative, some of his allies always worried that he chose his positions for pragmatic rather than philosophical reasons.

3.  But Gallo may find it harder to win over those consumers who boycott the Gallo label for philosophical reasons.

4.  But there is also an underlying philosophical reason.

5.  For unfathomable philosophical reasons, the very substrate of reality appears to obey a logic utterly foreign to the one that holds sway in the everyday world.

6.  Most of them cite philosophical reasons.

7.  Some consumers oppose chemical residues on food for philosophical reasons that have little to do with the sacrifice of lab animals.

8.  Metro, who studied ancient Asian art at Princeton University, says that for every accessory, there is a philosophical reason.