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I hoped we could make a flu vaccine that would be effective against the virus and mutation of it, should it ever return.
He was leaning heavily against the wall, and the way we do with pillows to patients in a hospital, they were putting that stuff behind his back.
So these voice-based tests, how do they stack up against expert clinical tests?
We've got laws that fundamentally treat creative works as property, plus massive rewards or settlements in infringement cases, plus huge legal fees to protect yourself in court, plus cognitive biases against perceived loss.
They realized that using force against force doesn't work.
My defense against their comments was the default that we who don't belong, the ones who are better than, get taught, we shrug them off and say, "They just don't know enough."
Trees were thrown against the house, the windows exploded.
And the reason for the delay and the boredom was that the House of Representatives were against the Senate.
And I asked millions of people, without questioning my right to do so, to go up against the government.
Dark matter now placed against a horizon.
Human time, industrial time, tested against the time of the tides, in which these memories of a particular body, that could be any body, multiplied as in the time of mechanical reproduction, many times, placed over three square miles, a mile out to sea, disappearing, in different conditions of day and night.
We might even call them citizens, because they've recently risen up to fight against legislative incursion, and the citizens of these networks work together to serve each other in great ways.
This chart maps the teacher's heart rate against the noise level.
It's delicious, it's nutritious, and as I learned when I went to Kashgar, it symbolizes their taboo against food waste.
I step off, I'm standing on the platform, and I feel my index finger in the first scar that I ever got, from my umbilical cord, and then around that, is traced the last scar that I got from my surgeon, and I think that, that chance encounter with those kids on the street with their knives led me to my surgical team, and their training and their skill and, always, a little bit of luck pushed back against chaos.
If you went and you were valuing two companies against one another, you'd want to know which was more valuable.
In fact, seven trials were conducted comparing reboxetine against a dummy placebo sugar pill.
Three trials were published comparing reboxetine against other antidepressants in which reboxetine was just as good, and they were published, but three times as many patients' worth of data was collected which showed that reboxetine was worse than those other treatments, and those trials were not published.
My Internet broke one day, as it occasionally does, and the cable guy came to fix it, and he started with the dusty clump of cables behind the couch, and he followed it to the front of my building and into the basement and out to the back yard, and there was this big jumble of cables against the wall.
She told me that her partner tied her up with her arms over her head like this, she's standing up and he positions her so she's straddling a bar, presses up against her clitoris, like this.
Is it sex-related to have pressure directly against your clitoris?
What I mean is, it's their brand against our brand.
We do not look after our victims, and we do not enable them, and what I'm going to try and show is that actually, victims are the best weapon we have against more terrorism.
They'll see it as freedom fighters and truth against injustice, imperialism, etc.
When we originally looked at bringing civil actions against terrorists, everyone thought we were a bit mad and mavericks and crackpots.
In an even more radical stance against consumerism, the company placed a "Don't Buy This Jacket" advertisement during the peak of shopping season.
But it ended up in this very long, protracted legal battle and there I was after five years fighting against Parliament in front of three of Britain's most eminent High Court judges waiting for their ruling about whether or not Parliament had to release this data.
Well, I'm sorry, people, but we are back to the pre-Enlightenment Church, and we need to fight against that.
My father was responsible for building roads in Bihar, and he had developed a firm stance against corruption, even though he was harassed and threatened.
It was very late at night, and at age 80, he was typing a 70-page public interest litigation against corruption in a road project.
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