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All right, if this view of language and its value in solving the crisis of visual theft is true, any species that acquires it should show an explosion of creativity and prosperity.
I myself had a tumor removed from my large intestine when I was only 14. Cancer occurs when a single cell in your body acquires a set of random mutations in important genes that cause that cell to start to produce more and more and more copies of itself.
And when you have a population of fast-dividing cancer cells, if one of them acquires new mutations, which allow them to grow more quickly, acquire nutrients more successfully, invade the body, they'll be selected for by evolution.
It acquires those technologies very early, before they've become expensive or competitors have mobilized around them, and it then develops those technologies itself, even at the risk of failure or the risk of self-disruption.
During his formative years he acquires a lifelong friend named Kaptah brilliantly played by (Peter Ustinov), and Horemheb (Victor Mature) who raises from a simple officer of the guard to Commander of the Armies.
Flashbacks are meaningful (when Alice acquires a gun we know she has some familiarity with how to use it) and it does not end in cliché.
The acting is so bad that it soon acquires a zen-like charm.
Actor Herman José plays the role of a football of a soccer entrepreneur that acquires the pass of two African players and tries to sell them for very little money to the rival club of the Benfica (club of its heart),FC Porto, therefore these players did not play well, and it wanted that the FC Port was wronged with this.
This time he acquires a pretty lady (Rochelle Hudson) when he commandeers her car, and she's almost a match for him.
Nerdy high school science whiz Barney Springboro (a likable performance by Scott Baio) acquires telekinetic powers after being exposed to an experimental batch of premium grade marijuana.
I truly hope the movie acquires a solid distribution deal, because I think it would be a shame to deprive a wide audience of such a delight.
But once a pharmaceutical company develops a treatment for a psychiatric disorder, it acquires a financial interest in making sure that doctors diagnose the disorder as often as possible.
The difference is that India can actually pay for the weapons that it acquires.
In particular, the Fund should enhance its understanding of the links between supervisory frameworks and macroeconomic conditions, including balance-of-payments and exchange-rate developments, by leveraging the wealth of cross-country information and expertise that it acquires through missions to its 185 members.
China’s strategic imperatives in this competition are twofold: to ensure that no rival acquires a dangerous “privileged influence” in any of its border regions; and to promote stability so that trade, and the sea lanes through which it passes (hence China’s interest in Sri Lanka and in combating Somali pirates), is protected.
Thus, Arab countries grow water-hungry grain in the desert, and China acquires part ownership of oil companies in Sudan.
There is a clear norm against the spread of nuclear weapons, but there is no consensus or treaty on what, if anything, is to be done once a country develops or acquires nuclear weapons.
He has unabashedly declared that data is “real wealth,” and that “whoever acquires and controls” it can attain “hegemony.”
Here, it will be important for the ECB to work closely with national supervisors until it acquires the power next year to supervise directly the 130 largest European banks.
But literature, once published, acquires a life of its own.
And when a foreign firm acquires a US company, it pays US tax on the profits earned in the US but not on the profits earned by that firm’s other foreign subsidiaries, thus lowering its total tax bill.
Rather, it rests on mutual confidence built over years, including by protecting secrets each side acquires through hard and often dangerous work.
This connection could be direct, if the renminbi acquires reserve-currency status; or indirect, if the International Monetary Fund’s unit of account, special drawing rights, becomes a favored asset of reserve managers, as the renminbi is now in the SDR currency basket.
But when a country becomes more productive and increases its exports, it acquires the means to import more, so other countries’ exports rise.
If the conditions change or the referendum question acquires a different meaning, voters should be allowed to change their minds.
Inflation and unemployment will remain high until the government acquires the will and authority to carry through on structural reforms in the teeth of opposition from both the conservative/revolutionary establishment and the vested economic interests spawned by the revolution.
But until Congress forges an attractive political program, and acquires charisma beyond that inherited from the Nehru family, it seems condemned to opposition.
And allowing the ECB to supervise the banks before the European Parliament acquires the power to hold it accountable would only deepen the EU’s democratic deficit and provoke a backlash.
This liquidity acquires familiar properties: used as a means of exchange and as a store of value, it becomes a form of money.
The more responsibilities the Brussels bureaucracy acquires, the more independent it will become.