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There's no petitions that you can sign to be against short-termism.
And the site: it's interesting; 14 years ago when we made the submission, we showed the temple set against the Andes.
We didn't have the Andes as our site, but after nine years, that's exactly where we ended up, the lines of the temple set against nothing but pure nature, and you turn around and you get nothing but the city below you, and inside, a view in all directions, radiating gardens from each of the alcoves, radiating paths.
Or a series of op-eds for and against a big idea that don't tell you where the writers worked.
But eventually, if you debate long enough, you will switch sides, you'll argue for and against the expansion of the welfare state.
For and against compulsory voting.
The stigmatization against mental illness often results in the ostracizing and demonizing of sufferers.
This is happening, however, against the background of the rise of Web logging.
Top of the mountain mining flooded that road, and now the only way for Jason to get to the patient living in that house with black lung disease is to drive his SUV against the current up that creek.
Even the harsh judgment I hold in my heart against my brother or my sister, the open wound that was never cured, the offense that was never forgiven, the rancor that is only going to hurt me, are all instances of a fight that I carry within me, a flare deep in my heart that needs to be extinguished before it goes up in flames, leaving only ashes behind.
Thank God, no system can nullify our desire to open up to the good, to compassion and to our capacity to react against evil, all of which stem from deep within our hearts.
He wrote in his diary, "My will and reason were powerless against the imagination of a danger which had never been experienced."
It particularly targets helper T cells, which help defend the body against bacterial and fungal infections.
But using the term in this way not only fails to fully convey Orwell's message, it actually risks doing precisely what he tried to warn against.
Orwell was indeed opposed to all forms of tyranny, spending much of his life fighting against anti-democratic forces of both the left-wing and the right.
In other words, it's systematically favoring or discriminating against a certain type of object to crash into.
One doesn't discuss religion or politics or increasingly, the politics of popular culture, at the dinner table, because these are the disagreements, these are the things that people really, seriously disagree about, and they define themselves against their opponents in the controversy.
And so civility talk in the 17th century becomes a really effective way for members of the religious establishment to silence, suppress, exclude dissenters outside of the established church, especially when they spoke out against the status quo.
Her supporting foot flattens, and then twists as it rises back onto pointe, pushing against the floor to generate a tiny amount of new torque.
I opened the letter, and it informed me that David Irving was bringing a libel suit against me in the United Kingdom for calling him a Holocaust denier.
At the time, it was that narrative that far outshined the news that a group of Russian government sponsored hackers who we called "Advanced Persistent Threat 28," or "APT28" for short, was carrying out these operations against the US.
This is not some inherent bias against flying things, but there is a challenge with flying cars in that they'll be quite noisy, the wind force generated will be very high.
If you look in between the electric car and the house, there are actually three Powerwalls stacked up against the side of the house, and then that house roof is a solar roof.
Huge strides are being made against lung cancer, but we knew that Paul likely had months to a few years left to live.
"Adolf Hitler," I say, "I arrest you for crimes against humanity."
But there's some people I would like to see killed, but I'm against the death penalty.
All that data is entered in the model, ambitiously but plausibly projected into the future, and compared against what we would have to do anyway.
I will do anything to defend myself against interference with this objective that I have been given."
They're also pitting teenagers and their parents in a fundamentally unwinnable fight against their own bodies.
Often the argument against later start times goes something like this: "Why should we delay start times for teenagers?
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