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The main question that I've been asked since I arrived at this conference when I said I would talk about infidelity is, for or against?
Now, the common law is the kind of law that English-speaking judges can make when they're not cabined in by statutes or constitutions, and a writ of habeus corpus is called the Great Writ, capital G, capital W, and it's meant to protect any of us who are detained against our will.
I began this sort of personal crusade against the mundane, because if there's one thing I've realized, it's that any career, even one as seemingly glamorous as surf photography, has the danger of becoming monotonous.
CA: So the thing is, Martine, that in any normal conversation, this would sound stark-staring mad, but in the context of your life, what you've done, some of the things we've heard this week, the constructed realities that our minds give, I mean, you wouldn't bet against it.
But there is this political ploy to try to pit police brutality and police misconduct against black-on-black violence.
Rather, it's something that has to be identified, acknowledged and mitigated against.
The fact is, we all have biases against what's different, what's different to our social norms.
because the clickity-clack of the heels against the hardwood floors was enough to give the ladies away.
I mean, you should never bet against babies or chimpanzees or technology as a matter of practice, but it's not just a difference in quantity, it's a difference in kind.
Now, this idea goes against the fixed narrative that we developed over the past 20 years over what security is and how to get it, but that narrative is flawed, and worse, it is counterproductive.
It requires us pushing back against one of the most basic ways we make sense of the world.
Well, for your record, my opinion of the legalization, I'd say I'm against it.
But in fact, those molecules are spinning at the rate of about a million revolutions per second; they're agitating back and forth their size every two nanoseconds; they're completely crowded together, they're jammed, they're bashing up against each other.
A housing discrimination lawsuit against Allegheny County removed where the projects Talbot Towers once stood.
It's all or none, you're with us or against us.
Management by talent contest has routinely pitted employees against each other.
We can change the channel when a television show treats sexual violence against women like sport, Game of Thrones.
With his championship belt, he wrestled in big-ticket venues, like Madison Square Garden, against big-time opponents, like Everett "The Blonde Bear" Marshall, or three-time world champion, Angelo Savoldi.
It would be like a tag team of specialists going up against the patient's pain.
An effective vaccine against it has been available for more than half a century, but many of the kids involved in the Disneyland outbreak had not been vaccinated because their parents were afraid of something allegedly even worse: autism.
Bacteria compete against each other for resources, for food, by manufacturing lethal compounds that they direct against each other.
Other bacteria, to protect themselves, evolve defenses against that chemical attack.
On much of the planet, most meat animals get antibiotics every day of their lives, not to cure illnesses, but to fatten them up and to protect them against the factory farm conditions they are raised in.
Aquaculture depends on antibiotics too, particularly in Asia, and fruit growing relies on antibiotics to protect apples, pears, citrus, against disease.
And then I lost my balance, and I'm propped up against the wall.
Against all odds, we'd been able to drive ahead of the record within that depression.
This is not a rare thing, although it's against the law in most countries.
The average man that might say, I'm against the abuse of women and girls quietly accepts the privileged position that we occupy, and this is very similar to what I knew when I was a child, when separate but equal had existed.
Even though they say, "I'm against discrimination against girls and women," they enjoy a privileged position.
I would say the best thing that we could do today is for the women in the powerful nations like this one, and where you come from, Europe and so forth, who have influence and who have freedom to speak and to act, need to take the responsibility on yourselves to be more forceful in demanding an end to racial discrimination against girls and women all over the world.
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