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This is staggeringly low, and means that 83% of engineers would advise against JIRA.
In fact, it goes against natural survival.
This man, Joel Salatin, they call him a lunatic farmer because he grows against the system.
What if that could be a vaccine against religious intolerance?
Now, even with this, I still think that Canadians are the more polite North Americans, so don't hold it against us.
This caste system was so arcane that it was actually against the law for a black person and a white person to merely play checkers together in Birmingham.
This artificial hierarchy, because it goes against human desires to be free, required a tremendous amount of violence to maintain.
They migrated to Ohio, where their daughter would get to do something that we all take for granted at this point, but which was against the law and against protocol for African Americans at the time that she would have been growing up in the South, had they stayed.
We see that as an equation that equals violence against women.
The center for disease control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions, is the number one health concern for women in this country and abroad.
Why not instead think of yourself as an atom, bumping up against other atoms, maybe transferring energy with them, bonding with them a little and maybe creating something new on your travels through the social universe.
We thought we actually could go through this again and thought we knew what we would be up against.
This elephant, against overwhelming odds, simply gives up hope.
More and more rules to protect us against an indifferent, uncaring set of institutions we have to deal with.
So it's just a question of waiting for the next one and then marveling at how we could have been so stupid as not to protect ourselves against that.
You may recall a year ago when a firestorm erupted after the United States Preventive Services Task Force reviewed the world's mammography screening literature and issued a guideline recommending against screening mammograms in women in their 40s.
These were four guys on the L.A. Rams in the 1960s you did not want to go up against.
Now here's a title that may sound familiar, but whose author may surprise you: "Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice."
Against my doctors' and family's wishes, I needed to go back for the funeral.
And you can see it against the boundaries of modern China.
You take a runner like Ann Trason or Nikki Kimball or Jenn Shelton, put them in a race of 50 or 100 miles against anybody in the world, and it's a coin toss who's going to win.
We need those things too, but we're also bumping up against their limits.
This disruption, any kind of dissonance, can be the first gauntlet we throw down in a battle against oppression.
Well, it's one in which it's natural to be afraid, to be frightened of this surveillance, this violence against our bodies and what we wear on them.
And then what happened was that they were able to declare that rape was a weapon of war, that it was against humanity.
Encouraging dissent is a rebellious notion because it goes against our very instincts, which are to surround ourselves with opinions and advice that we already believe or want to be true.
The Titans rose up against the gods; Lucifer against Jehovah.
And I, for one, am against that movement.
Now black holes are dark against a dark sky.
We would see a shadow of that black hole against the hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and its luminous dust lanes.
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