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He said, "Professor, I don't mean any disrespect by this, but when your mama picks up a butcher knife that looks bigger than you are, and chases you through the house screaming she's going to kill you, and you have to lock yourself in the bathroom and lean against the door and holler for help until the police get there," he looked at me and he said, "that's something you don't forget."

It needs to protect where the people are sitting against strong and warm wind.

We applied the same concept: shading of the training pitch, using a shelter against wind, then using the grass.

We're using energy we can harvest on our roofs, and also on the training pitches, which will be covered with large, flexible membranes, and we will see in the next years an industry coming up with flexible photovoltaics, giving the possibilities of shading against strong sun and producing electric energy in the same time.

And the same concept: shade against the sun, shade against the wind, and use, use and take advantage of the sun you can harvest on your footprint.

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was "gravely disabled."

It's also a very intellectually stimulating place, and occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Even with all that — excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment — I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing.

We all worry about our privacy settings on Facebook, but the fact of the matter is, our openness can be used against us.

What happens if we were to take the President's DNA, or a king or queen's, and put it out to a group of a few hundred trusted researchers so they could study that DNA and do penetration testing against it as a means of helping our leaders?

But it's extremely difficult to move oil absorbent against the winds, the surface currents and the waves.

We knew it wasn't going to be so hard, and we wanted to be the first to build one so we could get out in front of the problem and help protect against GPS spoofing.

Now, the Dr. Frankenstein moment, when the spoofer finally came alive and I glimpsed its awful potential, came late one night when I tested the spoofer against my iPhone.

It's the ultimate weapon against an invasion of GPS dots.

Remember, the deck was stacked against you, in terms of the difficulty level of these puzzles.

Students have rallied against sexual assault on campus.

The resulting constitutional flaw directly contradicts international law, which requires nation-states to intervene and protect citizens against gender violence by private parties as a human right.

So what this means is that through Title IX, those who seek access to education are protected against gender violence in a way that otherwise does not exist under the law.

We are going through some reference tests to compare it against professional equipment to see if there's a degree of change in efficacy and if it actually makes an impact in people's lives.

With a mobile phone, you can shoot a crime against humanity in Syria.

So I decided to start a lawsuit against them, because I wanted to have this information.

So he can't prevent it, his own citizens to post critical videos against his corruption.

Whatever the future is, we should fight against the [cat].

The last great power war pitted the United States against China 65 years ago.

First, isn't it good to be pessimistic to safeguard against complacency, to rake the muck, to speak truth to power?

Finally, does the Enlightenment go against human nature?

We are born into a pitiless universe, facing steep odds against life-enabling order and in constant jeopardy of falling apart.

And our puny rational faculties have been multiplied by the norms and institutions of reason, intellectual curiosity, open debate, skepticism of authority and dogma and the burden of proof to verify ideas by confronting them against reality.

As the spiral of recursive improvement gathers momentum, we eke out victories against the forces that grind us down, not least the darker parts of our own nature.

I wanted to test our current drugs against one of history's deadliest diseases.

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