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Now, a lot of parents, when they adopt, actually want to erase their children's history.
It took us half a century to adopt the telephone, the first virtual-reality technology.
We need now to adopt a new conception of agriculture.
It's a very hard problem because there's so many different shapes a protein can adopt.
And using the Western art of reasoning, I would recommend that the West adopt a new "three-m" strategy: minimalist, multilateral and Machiavellian.
And more than half of humanity lives in this space, so with this direct cultural connection, I can say with great conviction that if the West chooses to adopt a wiser strategy of being minimalist, multilateral and Machiavellian, the rest of the world will be happy to work with the West.
My partner has actually had to adopt a habit of asking me multiple times a day, "Are you OK? Do you need anything?"
So for Americans who wanted to adopt this and make it part of their own system, something they could use in everyday typography, whether in ads or anything else, they actually had to have metal type.
Countries that are really serious about climate change know that they have to adopt multiple solutions, multiple forms of renewable energy, not just one.
Molecules interact when they adopt shapes that fit together perfectly.
Farmers come and tell us that they want to adopt sustainable agriculture, but they need some help.
So at certain companies, it's very natural to adopt, or at hospitals, schools, etc.
When you announce that you're going to adopt, you can get a slightly different reaction.
And when you're a gay couple and announce that you're going to adopt children, you can get a very different reaction.
And so, we kind of skipped off and we started to tell friends and family that we wanted to adopt, and this was where we didn't necessarily get the "Congratulations!" that we might have expected.
Fredrick the Great of Prussia was very, very keen for the Germans to adopt the potato and to eat it, because he realized that if you had two sources of carbohydrate, wheat and potatoes, you get less price volatility in bread.
I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richness of human capacity.
You see this rising force in total transparency and openness that companies are starting to adopt, all because the consumer is demanding it.
Because to imitate a complex act requires my brain to adopt the other person's point of view.
I think there is one particular meaning to which we might restrict it, but by and large, this is something that we'll have to give up and we'll have to adopt the more complicated view of what well-being is.
You know, when we started with our English medium schools we also decided to adopt the best curriculum possible, the ICSE curriculum.
And the results were so good that the Rwandan government has now agreed to adopt the model for the entire country, and has strongly supported and put the full resources of the government behind it.
But you adopt that combination, and then you start gaining weight like them.
After escaping from his prisonlike hospital, the disruptive Earthian is chased around Not Southern California by TV and bad movie stalwart Cameron Mitchell who, like his minions, wears double breasted suits and black polo neck jumpers - a stylishly evil combination which I fully intend to adopt if ever I become a totalitarian overlord.
with fiorentino, baxendale and spacey each incapabable of a half decent oirish accents the powers-that-be had but one choice - force the irish actors to adopt equally bad oirish accents, reducing the whole thing to the lowest common denominator.
Will not appeal to most, including myself to a point, but will no doubt adopt a cult following.
She plays the head officer, and I have to wonder if this where Hilary Clinton decided to adopt her current look and demeanor.
Once they're wearing it, they adopt black dialect and fully inhabit their new characters.
Raised in the old ways, Tom is given a white man's name and must adopt the language and ways of the white man to live in that world.
The pair wants to adopt a child, but things turn awry when Casey receives a visit from his old partner in crime, Nick, who brought with him a case of heroine and a load of money stolen from the cops.
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