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I took some sheets of paper and started practicing, practicing, practicing, until I reached what I thought was a steady hand, and went into action.
When I heard about the vanishing bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, it motivated me to take action.
Lift me up with the aesthetic sublime and give me a practice or some tools to turn that inspiration into understanding and action.
It accesses /peh-LO-tah/'s field of inquiry to create a sports-based political action for young people.
Congregant Teri Hunter says the first step towards action has to be understanding.
Prosecutors decide whether or not to take legal action against the people police arrest and they decide what charges to file, directly impacting how much time a defendant potentially faces behind bars.
So I want to actually end by sharing my call to action to all of you.
And they have actualized compassion through direct action.
Well, it turns out that what happens is the negative data goes missing in action; it's withheld from doctors and patients.
A funnel plot is a very clever way of spotting if small negative trials have disappeared, have gone missing in action.
If there is publication bias, if small negative trials have gone missing in action, you can see it on one of these graphs.
And by the mid-60s, he was able to put this into action when he worked at the Stanford Research Lab in California.
These are some examples of this system in action in the late 80s.
And then you have all those individual stories where sometimes we even have the same action, and the result puts you in hells or in heavens.
As a multi-purpose passenger vehicle, it is now officially "designed for occasional off-road use." (Laughter) Now let's see it in action.
And what Bayes' rule says is, given my beliefs, the action should in some sense be optimal.
So if you want to understand the action of drugs, you want to understand how they're acting in the ways you want them to, and also in the ways you don't want them to.
At the end of our first meeting, we got together to talk about what the action items would be, how we'd follow up.
Then in 2005 I cofounded a nonprofit organization for youth and young adults with physical disabilities so they could get involved with action sports.
But she jumps to action when called to duty! (Trumpet) CL: Now I'm not suggesting that the cat is hearing that trumpet the way we're hearing it.
But she was able to move the action plan across President George H.W. Bush's desk so that we had environmental goals and that we were working to solve them.
They asked themselves a question: If economics could make such a convincing case for early action on climate change, well why can't the same be done for conservation?
It needs a means by which you can legitimize international action.
With enough users, maps like this will make it possible to take preventive action, containing hazards before they turn into emergencies that take years to recover from.
You immerse yourself in the water, and a physical action backs up a philosophical idea.
They teach us to persuade, they give us our language, which we use to convert our emotions to thought and action.
And my hope is that when confronted with an opportunity to stand up for someone else, we all take action like Sarah, even when there's risk involved.
Now, he was a German dramatist ... he was a German dramatist and he believed there is a five-act structure, which has an exposition, a rising action, a climax, a falling action and a denouement, which is the unraveling or the resolution of the story.
So after you've moved back and forth between what is and what could be, the last turning point is a call to action, which every presentation should have, but at the very end.
Growing up in Perth as an overly cerebral kid ... (Laughter) I would always try and act in the way that I thought was rational, reasoning through every decision, trying to figure out the very best action to take.
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