Locking
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And, because coal- and gas-fired power stations last 50 years or more, such investments raise the risk of either
locking
in emission levels incompatible with the climate target, or forcing major asset write-offs.
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It was worth
locking
myself in a clean room to do this for all those years because, check this out, the difference in scale between a single atom and that chunk of metal is about the same as the difference between that chunk of metal and you.
As a society, we are more willing to risk
locking
up innocent people than we are to let guilty people go free.
We elect politicians who fear being labeled "soft on crime," encouraging them to pass harsh legislation and allocate enormous resources toward
locking
people up.
Tying yourself to the mast is the oldest one, but there are other ones such as
locking
a credit card away with a key or not bringing junk food into the house so you won't eat it or unplugging your Internet connection so you can use your computer.
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