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The room is silent until he raises his own toast to Ivan Sirko, the new hetman who favors an alliance with Moscow against the Turks.
Sirko vows that tomorrow, they will ride against their common enemy, defend the Cossacks’ autonomy, and bring unity to the Wild Fields.
It might be that some massive network of communications, or some shield against asteroidal impact, or some huge astro-engineering project that we can't even begin to conceive of, could generate signals at radio or optical frequencies that a determined program of searching might detect.
I decided against clothing because I wanted the figure to be without any cultural implications or time-specific elements.
To hold their anguish and actually believe them, even if what they're saying is against you?
I don't have time to get into porn and violence against women or the split of domestic duties or the gender pay gap.
We're only here because of you, and like you, as men, we need to stand up and become your allies as you fight against pretty much everything.
And what's neat is sometimes you pit one emotion against the other, the visceral fear of falling against the reflective state saying, "It's OK.
So, it's pitting one against the other.
Not only did "Midnight’s Children" win the prestigious Man Booker Prize in its year of publication, but in a 2008 competition that pitted all 39 winners against each other, it was named the best of all the winners.
Moralists cautioned against devoting too much time to them, with chess even being briefly banned in France.
And a critically important problem to me was that for more than a century, the anti-pornography position had been used as a pretext for discriminating against gays and lesbians or people who have kinks or have fetishes.
It's a declaration of war against one of humanity's darkest evils.
You can imagine that that deepfake would provoke violence against those soldiers.
We've seen falsehoods spread on WhatsApp and other online message services lead to violence against ethnic minorities.
You can't leverage law against people you can't identify and find.
And I feel like every day that I'm speaking truth against institutions and people who are bigger than me and just forces that are more powerful than me, I feel like I'm falling out of that plane.
And when I held my bronze one up against my Sculpey one, it was shorter by three-quarters of an inch.
Fortunately, Japanese Americans weren’t alone in the fight against racial discrimination.
Technically, it got to Point B. The danger of AI is not that it's going to rebel against us, it's that it's going to do exactly what we ask it to do.
Amazon recently had to give up on a résumé-sorting algorithm that they were working on when they discovered that the algorithm had learned to discriminate against women.
In 1827, a fellow called George Pocock actually pioneered the use of kites for towing buggies in races against horse carriages across the English countryside.
So you have the shadow of a visitor against the projection, and you also see the projections across a person's shirt.
And that's what I mean by productive conflict: pushing up against the things that aren't working for us when there exists no other path forward.
As a public representative for the White Guelphs, Dante frequently spoke out against the pope’s power, until the Black Guelphs leveraged their position to exile him from Florence in 1302.
I'm thrilled that we now have a completely new weapon, and I should say an inexpensive weapon, in our fight against superbugs.
But me, I want Paul's legacy to be a major advance in this war against superbugs.
AF: Yeah, look, I'm in the iron ore business, and I compete against the scrap metal business, and that's why you don't have any scrap lying around to trip over, and cut your toe on, because it gets collected.
Led by Toussaint Louverture, the rebels fought against plantation owners, as well as British and Spanish forces seeking control of the island.
Taking my arm, leaning lightly against me.
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