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The climax of his
act
had gone wrong, and his head was stuck inside the lion's mouth.
I would say the best thing that we could do today is for the women in the powerful nations like this one, and where you come from, Europe and so forth, who have influence and who have freedom to speak and to act, need to take the responsibility on yourselves to be more forceful in demanding an end to racial discrimination against girls and women all over the world.
Torture is defined as any
act
by which severe pain of suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by a person acting in an official capacity to obtain information or a confession, to punish, coerce or intimidate.
Our desire to be seen to be compassionate is what led us to commit this profoundly un-compassionate
act.
Quick aside: It's worth noting that the first big war of the twentieth century began with an
act
of terrorism.
So getting our semisynthetic cells to
act
as little factories to produce better protein drugs isn't the only potentially really interesting application, because remember, it's the proteins that allow cells to do what they do.
"Notepad" is an
act
of protest and an
act
of commemoration disguised as an everyday tablet of paper.
The
act
of remembering relies on the prefrontal cortex, which governs thought, attention, and reasoning.
And then the
act
of trying to remember can itself be a stressor, leading to a vicious cycle of more corticosteroid release and an even smaller chance of remembering.
And they have an enormous influence on how we think, what we aspire to, and how we
act.
Here, this gets right at the distinction between a disease-centered and a patient- or human-centered model of care, and here is where caring becomes a creative, generative, even playful
act.
And fortunately, after decades of debate, we're finally starting to
act
on those questions.
You can spot it in the provocation of a button, an arm poking at a sleeve, a balancing
act
at a night-time curb while negotiating the dark.
I may never know why, but that simple act, the fleeting moment of human connection, transformed how I was feeling, making me want to keep going.
The
act
of you listening to me today brings me farther into the light.
If we really want to avoid the two-degree scenario, there really is no time like the present to
act.
And then my profit graph went from a thing of beauty to something kind of sad, with this worrying downhill trend for a long time, until I finally realized that I was overestimating my skill level, and got my
act
together.
But the simple
act
of encouraging her to come along to that first event led to a process where natural friendships formed, friendships that today are replacing the need for expensive services.
That's why it is possible to use existing solar cells on the roof of a hut to
act
as a broadband receiver from a laser station on a close by hill, or indeed, lamp post.
And a lot of people would describe this
act
of terror as two steps, that he did two things: he blew up the buildings and he shot those kids.
So I think locally and I
act
locally.
And then if we're motivated to
act
on sympathy, I call that compassion.
When we think of power in the United States, we usually think of the President, but he does not
act
alone.
But there's also occasionally been a for-profit group who has wanted to get in on the
act.
So among the books that Jane sent us both to read on female friendship was one by a woman we admire greatly, Sister Joan Chittister, who said about female friendship that women friends are not just a social act, they're a spiritual
act.
Would this cyber assassination constitute an
act
of war?
And would their retaliation be considered an
act
of war?
And taking the digital counteroffensive because governments couldn't even understand what was going on or act, Anonymous, a group we might not associate as the most positive force in the world, took action, not in cyber attacks, but threatening information to be free.
They have an advantage to
act
across more borders, more effectively and more rapidly than governments can, and there's a set of real incentives there.
Similar to a domino effect, one person's yawn triggers a yawn in a person nearby that has observed the
act.
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