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We need to ensure that these wetlands and forests that are our best and greatest and most critical defense against global warming are protected, and we are not releasing that carbon bomb into the atmosphere.
We have an incredible gift in the boreal, an incredible opportunity to preserve our best defense against global warming, but we could let that slip away.
And it was only in later years that I began to think perhaps it wasn't a good idea to squeeze a four-year-old up against a panel of old-style, un-screwable high-voltage fuses.
And by the way, the biggest protection against a population explosion is making the world educated and healthy.
Drove the pilings against the tide of the sand, plank by plank.
But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us, this other thing, and then we're disempowering ourselves.
So within the team, their interests are actually pitted against each other.
The main argument against group selection has always been that, well sure, it would be nice to have a group of cooperators, but as soon as you have a group of cooperators, they're just going to get taken over by free-riders, individuals that are going to exploit the hard work of the others.
The ability to hold something we've done or failed to do up against who we want to be is incredibly adaptive.
It wants only to be here tomorrow, dressed perhaps in the sleeve of a plaid shirt, nose pressed against the page, writing a few more dutiful lines while I gaze out the window and imagine Budapest or some other city where I have never been.
And I would like to show that against child survival.
(Laughter ends) She tests a rock now against the wall.
Uncertain and skeptical citizens look towards politicians who are competing against each other to see who can claim the prize of the loudest voice of populism and nationalism.
The act of speaking up against injustices that are multilayered is never easy, because the problems require more than just rhetoric.
Limburg, be proud of your cheese, as it is now used in the fight against malaria.
And I will show you how we can use dogs in the fight against malaria.
Man's best friend in the fight against malaria.
It's a crazy story, but I believe it's perhaps the best and ultimate revenge against mosquitoes ever.
This, for example, is an antibody staining against serotonin transporters in a slice of mouse brain.
Chad wanted to fight against homophobia in Russia.
But luckily, we rarely get sick from that seawater, because most marine microbes are working for us, not against us.
Tenacity is how I kept at it against all odds.
And at the end I bang my hand against the pole to dislodge the bird.
Nick Rhoades: If something is against the law then that is telling society that is unacceptable, that's bad behavior.
On the back of those reviews, governments should repeal laws that punish or discriminate against people living with HIV or those at greatest risk.
Of course, no one likes being offended, and I certainly don't like hearing controversial speakers argue that feminism has become a war against men or that blacks have lower IQs than whites.
But pressed up against these democratic aspirations was a very different day-to-day experience, especially in Egypt.
At KUNM here in Albuquerque, Elaine Baumgartel did some graduate research on the coverage of violence against women.
What we're told in terms of arguments against leaving this country is that the fate of the women is primary.
They celebrated a change in attitude towards non-white Britons, but railed against our restless school system that does not value collective identity, unlike that offered by Sidney Poitier's careful tutelage.
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