Acts
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Such
acts
of beautification may not be pretty, but they are much needed.
When white men commit
acts
of violence in the US, they're lone wolves, mentally ill or driven by a parking dispute.
So the building
acts
to create community within the building and the city at the same time.
Clearly, we cannot protect ourselves against all random
acts
of violence, but the reality is such a system requires substantial training and subtle training far beyond the resources of an individual.
For example, last year, a CEO of a company that
acts
as a gatekeeper for nine million websites decided, after some public pressure, that one of the sites it manages, a far right page, should be blocked.
Whether it's encouraging mutuality and caring; what it means about the way they see other sex acts; whether it's giving them more control over and joy in their experience, and what it means about gay teens, who can have multiple sex partners without heterosexual intercourse.
What surrounds the brain, between the brain and cranium, is something called cerebrospinal fluid or fluid, which
acts
as a shock absorber.
GC: I wrote a column about this for Time Motto, saying that I really believe that lot of people put on blinders, and maybe for the first time, some people decided that policies they believed in and being heard and not being invisible anymore was more important to them than the way in which he had acted or
acts
as a human.
In the Arctic, when it's ice-covered, most of the noise from wind doesn't make it into the water column, because the ice
acts
as a buffer between the atmosphere and the water.
Oftentimes when we think about the history of blacks in America, we think about the heinous
acts
and numerous injustices that we experienced as people of color because of the color of our skin, when in fact, in post-Civil War America, it was the hair of an African-American male or female that was known as the most "telling feature" of Negro status, more so than the color of the skin.
These
acts
devalue others.
Their practice also involved serving all of creation through small
acts
of love, which meant being kind even when people wronged you.
But what I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible
acts
of compassion, everyday
acts
of compassion.
The DNA contained in our genes
acts
like an instruction manual for our cells.
From there, the snow
acts
as an igloo, insulating this water from the cold and the wind above.
Most whites had claimed and subsequently reported that lynchings were responses to criminal
acts
by Black people.
During the European Wars of Religion, both Catholics and Protestants blamed Machiavelli for inspiring
acts
of violence and tyranny committed by their opponents.
One is called e-selectin, which
acts
as a glue that binds the nanoparticle to the immune cell.
The strong force
acts
between quarks which carry a different kind of charge, called color charge, and come in three different varieties: red, green and blue.
And the warhead in CRISPR is this purple protein that
acts
like molecular scissors to cut DNA, breaking the double helix into two pieces.
By toggling this delay in one arm, the modulator
acts
like an on/off switch, emitting pulses of light.
And it's the combined quality of these deep-sleep brainwaves that
acts
like a file-transfer mechanism at night, shifting memories from a short-term vulnerable reservoir to a more permanent long-term storage site within the brain, and therefore protecting them, making them safe.
We do this because sunlight
acts
a bit like tenderizer on a steak, turning the big, tough, durable bonds in PET plastic a bit softer and a bit easier for my bacteria to chew on.
“All the World’s a Stage” from "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His
acts
being seven ages.
But then I realized that charity isn't justice, that
acts
of empathy isn't justice, that being a good neighbor is necessary but not sufficient, and there was more that had to be done.
Because these structures we inherit aren't
acts
of God but
acts
of men and women, they're policy choices, they're by politicians like me, approved by voters like you.
Craig Venter showed up last year and showed you the first fully programmable cell that
acts
like hardware where you can insert DNA and have it boot up as a different species.
Twelve years old, and forced to commit sexual
acts
on her uncle, which are live-streamed to paying adults the other side of the world.
These components communicate to my cell phone in my pocket which
acts
as the communication and computation device.
Saleem
acts
as a delightful guide to magical happenings and historical context alike.
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