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So the police violence against them started to grow as well.
So he came up with an idea: he had the computer play against itself thousands of times and learn how to play checkers.
"When a family has a history with the department, many of us hold that history against them, even if they're trying to do things differently."
Eurystheus hoped to humiliate Hercules with ten impossible tasks that pitted him against invincible monsters and unfathomable forces.
For the whole Second World War, they saved 3,500 Jews, gave them shelter, brought them to Switzerland, against all odds, at the risk of their lives and those of their family.
In order to be secure, you defend against "them."
There are those who, if they're not with us, are against us.
In six years, I've had the extraordinary privilege through V-Day, a global movement against [violence against] women, to travel probably to 60 countries, and spend a great deal of time in different portions.
When she was a young girl, she had been mutilated against her will.
We are fighting against this.
It's violence against women.
I saw presidents opening emergency operation centers themselves against Ebola so that they could personally coordinate and oversee and champion this surge of international support to try and stop this disease.
What we need to do is assess psychological theories by seeing what predictions they make, whether that is that listening to Mozart makes you smarter, that you learn better when information is presented in your preferred learning style or whatever it is, all of these are testable empirical predictions, and the only way we can make progress is to test these predictions against the data in tightly controlled experimental studies.
We have come up with ways to protect ourselves against these diseases.
And therefore, there is this great need to find new ways to discover drugs that we can use against our diseases.
In fact, monarchs can take up the chemicals, put it in their own bodies, and it makes them toxic against their predators, such as birds.
At that time, there was no vaccine available against polio.
No one has natural defenses against, nor been vaccinated against measles.
We are in a city where more than 90 percent of the population has defenses against the measles, which means that they either had the disease, survived, and developed natural defenses; or that they had been immunized against measles.
Many people in the community depend almost exclusively on this herd immunity to be protected against disease.
All these people depend almost exclusively on herd immunity to be protected against diseases.
People would line up in pharmacies to get a vaccine, without even knowing if it was the right vaccine that would protect them against this new virus.
A year later, when a vaccine against the pandemic H1N1 virus became available, we wanted to see what happened.
Sol was very young, and she hadn't yet received her first vaccine against whooping cough.
And then what they did was they correlated these ACE scores against health outcomes.
But instead, to elevate your level of societal knowledge, your level of societal awareness and societal consciousness to then collectively come together, all of us come together, to make sure that we speak out against and we challenge any kind of insanity, any kind of insanity that makes it okay to kill unarmed people, regardless of their ethnicity, regardless of their race, regardless of their diversity makeup.
But Coney Island Creek, 94 percent of samples taken over the last five years have had fecal levels so high that it would be against state law to swim in the water.
They had three full-time guards who were posted around this sanctuary whose job was in fact to guard against illegal logging, and one day, we went walking, again as tourists, out into the forest, and within five minutes' walk, we stumbled upon somebody who was just sawing a tree down, five minutes' walk, a few hundred meters from the ranger station.
Towards the end of the fight, he slammed me up against the wall, so while we were tussled up, he said to me, "You good?" as if he got the best of me, but in my mind, I know I got the best of him, so I replied very cocky, "Oh, I'm good, you good?"
Early on, the teams were encouraged to build prototypes so that they could "bump them up against reality and discover for themselves the strengths and weaknesses of their particular approach."
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