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European governments, for the most part, haven't acknowledged responsibility, and there's nothing to kind of to push back and up against.
Sergio was in Beirut when the U.S. Embassy was hit by the first-ever suicide attack against the United States.
You can actually do far more to build an international coalition against a harmdoer or a wrongdoer by being in the room and showing to the rest of the world that that person, that regime, is the problem and that you, the United States, are not the problem.
This is something that happened without foreign investment, without government aid, and actually, it happened against all odds, in one of the most difficult moments in Nigerian economy.
So when I read in a newspaper in the business page the story of Nollywood, I really felt this is an incredible opportunity to tell a story that goes against all these preconceived notions.
And you know, and the troubling thing is that it's much easier to do something bad than to defend against all possible bad things, so the offensive uses really have an asymmetric advantage.
You normally get a trivalent vaccine against three possible strains.
For example, rather than trying to regulate away problems, which probably won't work, if we could price into the cost of doing business, the cost of catastrophe, so that people who are doing things that had a higher cost of catastrophe would have to take insurance against that risk.
It's especially hard for the scientists to accept who still remember, you know, Galileo essentially locked up, and who are still fighting this battle against the church.
So he got rid of the electricity, he got rid of current on the inside and kept it on the outside, so it would protect them against coyotes and other predators.
Let's get creative against climate change.
Against the family’s wishes, Fa Hai buried the bowl beneath the Lei Feng Pagoda.
Their throat and blood vessels are uniquely adapted to pump blood and to swallow food against the force of gravity.
As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer’s disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has the effect of reducing your risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
I was going to fight back against what he tried to do to me by making a difference in the world.
And it's a good mindset, I have nothing against it.
Really, they were actually against it.
It is a battle in the darkness against the darkness.
Sea lions have full directional control over these whiskers, which can lie flat against their face, or stick out at a 90-degree angle.
They're totally against us" about your family.
A 17-year-old chubby Mexican American girl struggling against cultural norms to fulfill her unlikely dream.
Much of the novel’s dark humor comes not only from this demonic mischief, but also the backdrop against which it occurs.
And the book’s long overdue publication and survival against the odds is a testament to what Woland tells the Master: “Manuscripts don’t burn.”
What I found was a process to break down the headline and understand the consistent layers in each one: a subject takes an action against a target engaged in some activity, so that "White Woman Calls Police On Eight-Year-Old Black Girl" is the same as "White Man Calls Police On Black Woman Using Neighborhood Pool" is the same as "Woman Calls Cops On Black Oregon Lawmaker Campaigning In Her District."
A subject takes an action against a target engaged in some activity.
"That wet line you get across your shirt when you accidentally lean against the counter of a public bathroom."
The potential for similar situations, in which authorities use their powers to mobilize society against a false threat, still exists today— but so does the capacity of reasoned dissent to combat those false beliefs.
Liquid water has an additional advantage in that it’s relatively temperature-stable, meaning it can insulate molecules against large shifts in heat.
Raising your bite against the bitter dark Your bright longing Your brilliant fists of loss Friend if the only thing we have to gain in staying is each other, my god that’s plenty my god that’s enough my god that is so so much for the light to give each of us at each other’s backs whispering over and over and over “Live” “Live” “Live” It's amazing, when you meet a head of state and you say, "What is your most precious natural resource?"
So think of it this way: think of it as inoculating children against ignorance.
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