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Even motor structures that enable so-called "fight or flight" responses to a dangerous situation become active.
Active resisters to the Nazis during World War II were often devout Christians.
As a result, the Dutch welfare system now requires beneficiaries to show proof of an active job search prior to eligibility; to perform work or volunteer community service while receiving benefits; and to take a job even if it requires a long commute.
An aging population means more retirees – expecting publicly provided pensions – relative to the number of economically active people.
During the Cuban energy crisis that followed the cut-off of subsidized Soviet supplies, the proportion of adults who were physically active more than doubled.
HPV vaccines can prevent 70% of these cases by targeting the two most common types of the virus, but only if girls have not yet been exposed to the virus, which means vaccinating them before they become sexually active.
Western correspondents are aware of these risks when they travel abroad to cover active war zones.
And across the European Union, the median income of people over 63 is almost as high as the median income earned by active workers.
A policy of mandatory active retirement would avoid some of the pitfalls of the standard approach.
Better yet, society as a whole would benefit from older citizens’ more active day-to-day engagement.
Studies show that idle retirement leads to a sharp decline in one’s cognitive skills, whereas a policy of active retirement would encourage older people to pursue fulfilling new challenges.
When the neuroscientist Tania Singer (no relation to me) asked Ricard to engage in “compassion meditation” while his brain was being scanned, she was surprised to see no activity in the areas of his brain normally active when people empathize with the pain of others.
His intention is quite clear: “Man’s active nature, flagging, seeks too soon the level;Unqualified repose he learns to crave, Whence, willingly, the comrade him I gave, Who works, excites, and must create, as Devil.”
On crisis management in the wake of the financial meltdown in 2008, the emerging economies have been as diligent and active as the US and the European Union.
He also has served as a management consultant in Arab countries, and for a time was involved in asset management for Sheikha Mozah, the politically active wife of the Emir of Qatar.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has been active in executing a strategic plan that is expected to lead to a de facto Palestinian state within a year and a half.
The American negotiators who are planning to play an active role in the indirect talks, and will for the first time sit at the negotiating table if face-to-face talks do take place, have apparently promised the Palestinians that the US will point its finger at the party that dares to derail the negotiations.
"It’s a very lively and active regional group that has opened new relations and opportunities for all members," said Rejaie Khorasani, member of parliament and former ambassador to the United Nations, in an interview.
The light that it powers has enabled us to have active, productive lives past sunset.
To that end, keeping the UK in the EU customs union – by guaranteeing it an active, albeit informal role – is negotiators’ best bet.
In any other common English language usage, “hold” is an active verb or a noun with a similar connotation.
My company, Novartis, has been active in Africa for the past two decades, providing antimalarials and working with governments to support health-care systems.
With Merkel’s active help, the eurozone is (in effect) moving towards becoming a transfer union: the stricter the new rules and the larger the interest-rate spreads among eurozone countries, the faster that will happen.
But these countries' monetary authorities should base interest rates on conditional inflation forecasts rather than historical data during active disinflation.
The Council can deliver results, as it showed with Syria’s chemical arsenal, when it establishes clear benchmarks, explicit timelines, active monitoring mechanisms, regular reporting processes, and consequences for non-compliance.
In the future, various global powers will be active in the Middle East – primarily the US, Russia, China, India.
Soroush supported Iran's 1979 revolution and took an active role in revising university curricula in the revolution's early years.
Facebook is the chief culprit: with an average of 1.32 billion daily active users, its impact is massive, yet the company refuses to give outside researchers access to the information needed to understand the most fundamental questions at the intersection of the Internet and politics.
The Patriarch (rumored to have served in the KGB himself) has called the war in Syria “a holy struggle,” adding that, “today our country is perhaps the most active force in the world to combat [it].”
That is what happened to Fan Bingbing, China’s biggest movie star, who disappeared last July, when her previously very active account on the Sina Weibo social media platform (China’s answer to Twitter) suddenly went silent.
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