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But I'm fairly sure we were one of the very first shows that was connecting with our audience in a respectful way, by hanging them upside down, (Laughter) dipping them in paint, slamming them against a canvas, (Laughter) putting their heads in 70 pounds of Jell-O, and then making them one of the heroes of the show.

So Brazilians went to that first match against North Korea, put up this banner, started a Twitter campaign and tried to convince the rest of us to tweet the phrase: "Cala a boca, Galvao."

I'm not saying that fiction has the magnitude of an earthquake, but when we are reading a good novel, we leave our small, cozy apartments behind, go out into the night alone and start getting to know people we had never met before and perhaps had even been biased against.

And these two war against one another almost continuously.

So in my job, on a daily basis, I get to produce scientific evidence against existential loneliness.

You know, it's not as though we don't have the technological solution, but these women have three strikes against them: they are poor, they are rural and they are female.

She was married against her will at age 13.

And if you were going to fight Orcs on the fields of Mordor against the Ra's Al Ghul, you'd probably want to be the bigger one, right?

They work against the clock and against the thermometer.

The wind that rubs against it gives it voice.

So this goes against conventional wisdom that we should tell our friends our goals, right?

So they're either just truly monster El Ninos, or they're just very strong El Ninos that occurred against a backdrop of global warming.

Female Narrator: There is hope, hope that one day we shall win this fight against HIV and AIDS.

So, here's how it stacks up against an entire neuron.

So I asked them, could they help us in our fight against HIV.

Now I haven't got anything against efficiency.

And almost straightaway we actually run up against a couple of anomalies.

No one can say that the plants were able to eat an animal, because it was against the order of nature.

They are able to respond to gravity, of course, so the shoots are growing against the vector of gravity and the roots toward the vector of gravity.

Now, this is a root apex growing against a slope.

From Morocco to Lesotho, young people are rising up against entrenched monarchies: in Egypt and Sudan, against brutal dictatorships; in Uganda and Ethiopia, against powerful militarized states with quasi-democratic veneers; in South Africa, where this image was taken, and Burundi, against democratically elected leaders who have done little to improve the conditions for ordinary people.

The second wave took place in the 1980s and 1990s against austerity measures that imposed harsh conditions on African economies.

Protests are about coloring outside the lines, a way for ordinary people to rewrite the rules of the game that too many feel are stacked against them.

Consider the situation of my friend Linda Masarira, a single mother of five, who is leading protests against the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe.

And though she knows the odds against her, Linda perseveres.

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things, like crystals and rocks, are really almost entirely composed of empty space.

The odds against it, of course, are so great that if you set out writing zeros at the time of the origin of the universe, you still would not have written enough zeros to this day.

The story goes there were 40 soldiers who abandoned their post during a great battle against an empire.

In a time ... when hate crimes against our communities are at the highest they have been since 9/11.

So back in Abidjan, I was given a chance to lead a workshop with local cartoonists there and I thought, yes, in a context like this, cartoons can really be used as weapons against the other side.

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