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Just for a minute, imagine when they put all their forces behind a message as powerful as handwashing with soap.
Today, the logic behind aid is too often, well, we do at least some good.
With every case that I take, I realize that as much as I'm standing behind my clients, that they're also standing behind me, and that's what keeps me going.
But some scholars believed that behind the superhuman feats and divine miracles there must have been a grain of historical truth - a war that was really fought, and a place where it happened.
People thought that gentlemen should sit behind closed doors and make comfortable agreements.
He was sent very far away, and she was left behind.
Which is why it's particularly galling to me as an American that we've been the driving force behind this global drug war.
Most politicians in my country want to roll back the Drug War now, put fewer people behind bars, not more, and I'm proud to say as an American that we now lead the world in reforming marijuana policies.
And nobody thought about criminalizing it back then because nobody wanted to put Grandma behind bars.
Put it this way, and I exaggerate only slightly: If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal consumers of Viagra were poor young black men, then smokable cocaine would be easy to get with a prescription from your doctor and selling Viagra would get you five to 10 years behind bars.
Look at Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, England, where people who have been addicted to heroin for many years and repeatedly tried to quit and failed can get pharmaceutical heroin and helping services in medical clinics, and the results are in: Illegal drug abuse and disease and overdoses and crime and arrests all go down, health and well-being improve, taxpayers benefit, and many drug users even put their addictions behind them.
To do all those films, it would have been impossible with a big company behind me, with a structure or anything.
What I saw behind every excuse was deep fear, and what I learned was that to become a doctor, we have to put on our white coats, put up a wall, and hide behind it.
We put on our white coats and we hide behind them.
So now, behind me is an animation of the extracellular matrix.
So if you have a bleeding wound like the one behind me, you can actually put our material onto this, and just like Lego blocks, it'll reassemble into the local tissue.
You can see the ice in the foreground and the sort of rubbly rock behind that.
Behind us lay an unbroken ski trail of nearly 1,800 miles.
Thanks to modern technology, the government knows far too much about what happens behind closed doors.
If I do a foldout page on the left-hand side and let you just unfold it, you see behind it what I mean by scar tissue.
Why do you think I'm showing you these beautiful black men behind me?
In one year, fourth-grade students in the South Bronx, way behind, became the number one fourth-grade class in the state of New York on the state math test.
Behind me, you can see some of the kind of work I do.
MR: And now, 137 years later, we're able to get sound in pretty much similar quality but by just watching objects vibrate to sound with cameras, and we can even do that when the camera is 15 feet away from the object, behind soundproof glass.
No mortal could stand before the Cretan bull’s mad rampage, but a chokehold from behind did the trick.
The agenda behind our cinematic immersion was only empathy, an emotion that's largely deficient from films that come from our region of the world.
My brother left behind his beautiful 10-year-old daughter, his brilliant 18-year-old son, weeks before his high school graduation, and his wife of 20 years.
You're really sensitive to your body and its functions when you're behind this thing.
And those who stand in defense tell you, "Even if you don't realize it, friend, math is behind everything."
And now these guys have also started saying that behind information security and credit cards are prime numbers.
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