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Lightly, lightly against me.
During the war between Israel, a state, and Hezbollah, a non-state actor, the non-state actor flew four different drones against Israel.
First is, you're going to reinforce the power of individuals against governments, but then the second is that we are going to see an expansion in the realm of terrorism.
So one example of this that has big resonance in the policy realm is how this plays out on our very real war of ideas that we're fighting against radical groups.
We can mitigate against anger and hate through the experience of awe generated by art.
Though Chak Ek’ had risen first, K’in Ahaw outshone him, and the resentful Chak Ek’ descended back to the underworld to plot against his brother.
We know that we can be much more effective at improving health behavior if we work with the irrational parts of our nature instead of ignoring them or fighting against them.
For me, as the child of immigrant parents from Ghana, West Africa, born in the American South, raised in Manhattan, Kansas, (Laughter) and having attended the same elite school as Du Bois, I could see that the Buffalo fair effectively pitted the black Northerner against the Southerner, the educated against the uneducated, and the African American against the African.
Our numbers and statistics look small against the page.
MJ: Mary Talbert and the National Association of Colored Women started movements against lynching and the myth of black criminality just as black women today started Black Lives Matter.
The hope is that these will be used as broad-spectrum antibiotics that work against all bacteria.
By providing a rigid surface to press against, primates could splay out their pads to create even more contact with the trees.
And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.
And that's why so much of humor is the body asserting itself against the head.
One of the central questions is: "How, in the future, freedom of expression will be weighed against the people's need for protection."
So, now these students against pollution, who were sending those protest letters to McDonald's, they reminded me of myself 20 years ago.
These seemed to be the three areas that I could exploit to compete if I wanted to comptete against people who'd been practicing for 20 to 30 years.
In each case, participants must weigh their own understanding of the best course of action against how well they think other participants understand the situation.
So my idea was that, instead of sitting down and reaching for a lot of controls, that you would sit on the chair, and it would automatically balance your weight against the force required to recline.
In the meantime, some of our best defenses against arthritis are lifestyle choices: maintaining a healthy weight to take pressure off joints, low-impact exercises like yoga or cycling, and avoiding smoking.
Shortly after, leaked internal CBP documents confirmed that my own government had been complicit in issuing this travel alert against me.
In Louisiana, about one in five white voters said, "Yes, one of the big reasons why I voted against Barack Obama is because he was an African-American."
The problem here is that we take a static solution trying to fight against a superdynamic, high-energy problem, and nature is almost always going to win.
Those traits are often selected against, meaning they gradually disappear from the population.
But if a trait isn’t actively harmful, it might not get selected against, and stick around even though it isn’t useful.
Every child recapitulates this ascension, straddling one or both legs, sitting sideways, or leaning against the body.
Well, recently, my colleagues and I designed constrained peptides that neutralize influenza virus, protect against botulism poisoning and block cancer cells from growing.
And so surprised, in fact, having looked at the list of people we were up against, I didn't even turn up to the awards ceremony.
Fast-forward to the last award of the night, and our shock turned into everybody's shock when we won the Australian Entrepreneur of the Year against all of the other categories.
And from there, the water got a lot deeper, because we jetted off to Monte Carlo to represent Australia in the World Entrepreneur of the Year against 40 other different countries.
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