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We spend very little, if any, dollars in terms of identifying what we're up
against.
If you could start to move that, to identify what you're up against, you're going to do things a hell of a lot better.
And I think corruption, and the fight
against
corruption, and the impact of corruption, is probably one of the most interesting ways to illustrate what I mean with this failure of governance.
And therefore, I began to not only try to protect the work of the World Bank, our own projects, our own programs
against
corruption, but in general, I thought, "We need a system to protect the people in this part of the world from the ravages of corruption."
Most of the large companies are now totally convinced that they have to put in place very strong policies
against
bribery and so on.
Stars are basically nuclear fission machines that self-organize and self-sustain themselves for billions of years: order
against
the extropy of the world.
You wouldn't want to say something off-the-cuff that might be used
against
you."
And yet, we've been trained to squint into this legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute
against
the standard of a perfect society, where everyone will agree what's fair, and where accidents will be extinct, risk will be no more.
But the accountability's up the line judging the decision
against
the effect on everybody, not just on the disgruntled person.
What India was doing, though, was benchmarking itself
against
the best in the world, and it became a huge brand.
And why do we live in places where such dissimilar people collide up
against
us each day?
And find other ways to encourage the discussion to be
against
sort of monolithic, single solutions, and more about a multiplicity of things.
And what you can do now is, you can outlay exactly what your chromosome is, and what the gene code on that chromosome is right here, and what those genes code for, and what animals they code against, and then you can tie it to the literature.
And the actual goal of RoboCup is, by the year 2050, we want to have full-size, autonomous humanoid robots play soccer
against
the human World Cup champions and win.
You're going to see the action is three
against
three, completely autonomous.
Batman, fighting
against
the bad guys, he has his utility belt, he has his grappling hook, he has all different kinds of gadgets.
She wasn't going to vaccinate her kid
against
polio, no way.
I heard horrific stories from young women in the movement, who'd been brutally raped by the very men they were conditioned to trust, and I myself committed acts of violence
against
people, solely for the color of their skin, who they loved, or the god that they prayed to.
This was a high school where I had committed acts of violence
against
students,
against
faculty; where I had protested out in front of the school for equal rights for whites and even had a sit-in in the cafeteria to try and demand a white student union.
And she pointed to the image on the right as an example, to me, of the kind of dignity that needed to be portrayed to work
against
those images in the media.
10 IRA prisoners were in the process of starving themselves to death in protest
against
conditions in jail.
This is a moment from the beginning of the second intifada, in 2000, when it was still stones and Molotovs
against
an army.
This is a scene of house-to-house fighting in Mostar, neighbor
against
neighbor.
This is a Chechen rebel on the front line
against
the Russian army.
So the deal with counterculture is, the hippies were very romantic and kind of
against
technology, except very good LSD from Sandoz, and the New Left was
against
technology because they thought it was a power device.
Back then, if your record wasn't getting played on mainstream radio, if you weren't in jukeboxes or if you weren't invited to play on TV, the odds were completely
against
you.
The same child that is not immunized
against
measles, if they do get measles, parents will spend thousands of rupees to help them.
I joked that the main contribution we made to the battle
against
AIDS was to get the manufacturers to change from a jewelry store to a grocery store strategy.
Now, I want to be very clear: We do not think our work should or could justify prejudice
against
people of one or another body size at all.
So you get people arguing
against
each other, friend versus friend, in pairs, journaling, whatever.
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