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And these are examples of the kinds of programs U.S. intelligence agencies are running right now, against the whole rest of the world.
It sounded familiar, and I quickly considered another possibility, and I reached out with my left hand, as my fingers brushed against something fuzzy, and I came across an ear, the ear of a dog, perhaps a golden retriever.
But what I didn't anticipate through that rapid transition was the incredible experience of the juxtaposition of my sighted experience up against my unsighted experience of the same places and the same people within such a short period of time.
It's entrepreneurship, and I believe entrepreneurship can be the most powerful tool against waithood.
It's kind of age of prohibitions, where in many areas of our life, we live life constantly against the law.
They live life knowing they live it against the law.
Well recently, Nepal acquired a new tool in the fight against wildlife crime, and these are drones, or more specifically, conservation drones.
It would give us an unfair advantage against battling HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other epidemics.
Features of the modern lifestyle predispose us to those diseases, and features of the traditional lifestyle protect us against them.
Only 13 percent achieve a reasonable level of five GCSEs at 16, against 58 percent of the wider population.
White blood cells are our body's defense against bacterial invaders, and when they sense this inflammation due to infection, they will enter from the blood into the lung and engulf the bacteria.
When the rains come, we hurry up to protect our fragile walls against the rain.
It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.
I love it because each day I decide, sometimes gamely, and sometimes against the moment's reason, to cleave to the reasons for living.
Mainstreaming Arabs was much, much easier than conquering the challenge against the stigma against disability.
But I actually went back and took what I could find, the examples in history where there have been prohibitions against technology, and then I tried to find out when they came back in, because they always came back in.
When food was scarce, our ancestors' survival depended on conserving energy, and regaining the weight when food was available would have protected them against the next shortage.
Leonardo himself had preached against the use of gold, so it was absolutely anathema at that moment.
And around the fortress is this vast field of taboo against premarital sex, against condoms, against abortion, against homosexuality, you name it.
Women, and increasingly men, who are starting to speak out and push back against sexual violence on the streets and in the home.
Groups that are trying to help sex workers protect themselves against HIV and other occupational hazards, and NGOs that are helping unwed mothers like Faiza find a place in society, and critically, stay with their kids.
Benevolence, loving kindness against hatred.
Acting against the interest of their company.
For any new requirement, you have a dedicated function in charge of aligning engineers against the new requirement.
The real battle is not against competitors.
The real battle is against ourselves, against our bureaucracy, our complicatedness.
All they do is follow simple association rules, and from this simplicity emerges social complexity which allows the colony to be resilient against dramatic changes in the population structure.
When these particles get to the road, they sense some kind of obstacle, and they bounce against it.
I've been part of a social movement that has been working on ending violence against women and children.
How can we get men to talk about violence against women and girls?
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