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Are you doing that for protecting your people against terrorist attacks, or are you doing that for oppressing your people?

Would you be in favor or against?

And unfortunately, what happens is people would decline to answer the questions, because they feel like you would use the information to discriminate against them, all because of how you presented the information.

Now, just in case I hadn't learned this lesson, they assigned me to headquarters next, and that's where I ran straight up against system change.

Now, many things work against system change: politics and politicians, bills and laws, courts and lawsuits, internal politics.

The international criminal tribunal delivered a number of sentences for crimes against humanity and genocide.

Now today, I insure farmers against droughts like those in the year of the cup, or to be more specific, I insure the rains.

It's been six years since, and last year I was fortunate enough to be part of a team that insured over 185,000 farmers in Kenya and Rwanda against drought.

But if an event is potentially devastating, it's worth paying a substantial premium to safeguard against it, even if it's unlikely, just as we take out fire insurance on our house.

Well, can we guard against such risks by regulation?

In fact, these were a few insensitive comments which were made in the media by prominent people in response to sexual violence against women in general.

There is a sixfold increase in women reporting harassment, and the government passed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act in 2013 to protect women against sexual assault.

We asked, what is the percentage of the world's one-year-old children who have got those basic vaccines against measles and other things that we have had for many years: 20, 50 or 80 percent?

The trends that are increasing are instead falling, and the other way around, and in this case, the chimps use our intuition against us, and it becomes our weakness instead of our strength.

We came up with a drug cocktail consisting of tocilizumab, which is currently used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, and reparixin, which is currently in clinical trials against breast cancer.

In the 1950s, a computer scientist at IBM named Arthur Samuel liked to play checkers, so he wrote a computer program so he could play against the computer.

First, they just don't have enough doctors, and where they do, their distribution is skewed against the poor, because our global health crisis is fed by a crisis in human resources.

And to some extent, the fight against tax havens and automatic transmission of information is pushing us in this direction.

And even five years ago, many people would have said that bank secrecy will be with us forever in Switzerland, that Switzerland was too powerful for the rest of the world, and then suddenly it took a few U.S. sanctions against Swiss banks for a big change to happen, and now we are moving toward more financial transparency.

BG: One of the arguments against your point of view is that economic inequality is not only a feature of capitalism but is actually one of its engines.

It is not hard to see what girls are benchmarking themselves against.

Today, the majority of people still don't have access to early cancer detection methods, even though we know that catching cancer early is basically the closest thing we have to a silver bullet cure against it.

We cannot lose the war against cancer.

It's usually presided over by religious leaders and village elders, and jirgas are often used in rural countries like Afghanistan, where there's deep-seated resentment against the formal system.

So the first thing he did is he said to people, "Okay, why don't you send me a text message if you support my campaign against corruption?"

If you want to succeed in changing the world, you need to know who you're up against.

During a televised 20-day public debate, our opponent used our own arguments against us.

So this evolutionary foil safeguards the plant against these rather cute animals, and protects it and of course ensures its survival.

Now, the local people, they used a decoction of the leaves against infectious diseases.

Now our work, that is, the scientific validation of this traditional information, has shown that precisely that leaf extract shows activity, potent activity, against a wide range of bacteria that could be pathogenic to humans.

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