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I had learned that many people tried to cross the border to China in the nighttime to avoid being seen.
The defensive octopus tries to face away from the attacker until it's the critical moment it knows there's no way to avoid a fight.
Well, we've all heard about what they are, I think, and we all know they're used quite a bit by people and companies who are trying to avoid paying their proper dues to society, also known as taxes.
Why that series of 5s and 7s? It’s somewhat arbitrary, but you know that you want to avoid 10, 14, and perfect squares, since you’ll need them later.
And I want to avoid the silly carbon-chauvinism idea that you can only be smart if you're made of meat.
One is that we should avoid an arms race and lethal autonomous weapons.
This clock, or circadian rhythm, is also sensitive to light, so avoid bright lights at night to help tell your body that it’s time for sleep.
She walks 50 blocks to and from work every day just to avoid spending money on bus fare.
KM: Yeah, and one thing we know for certain is that chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.
So you might think, then, well, why don't we just avoid the places where the killer mosquitos live?
We could avoid the places where the killer grizzly bears live and we avoid the places where the killer crocodiles live.
And you can even steer around the structure that you want to avoid on the way to the target.
The world I believe in is one where we're measured by our ability to overcome adversities, not avoid them.
We see companies like the Brazilian forestry company Fibria that's figured out how to avoid tearing down old growth forest and using eucalyptus and getting much more yield per hectare of pulp and making much more paper than you could make by cutting down those old trees.
For years, the Zabbaleen would live in makeshift villages where they would move around trying to avoid the local authorities, but in the early 1980s, they settled on the Mokattam rocks just at the eastern edge of the city.
HP: (In Chinese) YR: I was born and raised near Manchester, in England, but I'm not going to say it in English to you, because I'm trying to avoid any assumptions that might be made from my northern accent.
It felt a bit girly to me, like a dress, and it had this baggy trouser part you had to tie really tight to avoid the embarrassment of them falling down.
Perhaps Africa can avoid some of the mistakes that have been made.
Tropical forests contain a huge amount of carbon in the trees, and we need to keep that carbon in those forests if we're going to avoid any further global warming.
It monitors weather data from all the ground stations and optimizes the routes of the vehicles through the system to avoid adverse weather conditions, avoid other risk factors, and optimize the use of the resources throughout the network.
We want to avoid death, and the dream of doing that in this body in this world forever is the first and simplest kind of immortality story, and it might at first sound implausible, but actually, almost every culture in human history has had some myth or legend of an elixir of life or a fountain of youth or something that promises to keep us going forever.
Although we want to avoid suffering, it seems we are running somewhat towards it.
The more we like each other, the more we avoid the real cooperation that would strain our relationships by imposing tough tradeoffs.
You know, we're desperately trying to avoid being gross all the time, so I think many of us take this kind of voyeuristic delight in learning about gross things.
Trying to avoid these triggers, which are sometimes unpredictable, can lead to isolation.
My reservations are principally about the moral hazard problem, and I don't really know how we can best avoid the moral hazard.
My equivalent of that statement to pass on to descendants to help them build artificial intelligences or to help them understand human intelligence, is the following: Intelligence should be viewed as a physical process that tries to maximize future freedom of action and avoid constraints in its own future.
One of the judges, Lord Atkin, described it like this: You must take care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbor.
Could anyone honestly suggest, on the evidence, that the same media which Hansard so roundly condemned have taken sufficient care to avoid behaving in ways which they could reasonably have foreseen would be likely to undermine or even damage our inherently fragile democratic settlement.
I say, there's only a few materials that you should completely avoid.
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