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They get the name of the gang behind them, for merchandising and marketing.
The greatest way to mask a shaky sense of self is to hide behind a false air of respect.
So that was the idea behind this.
In the swamps behind his house, he found a plant that would spring shut every time a bug would fall in between it.
It’s up to us to decide the best course forward as CRISPR leaves single-celled organisms behind and heads into labs, farms, hospitals, and organisms around the world.
And every spring and autumn, exactly at the equinox, the sun rises behind his temple, and perfectly bathes her temple with his shadow.
And as the sun sets behind her temple in the afternoon, it perfectly bathes his temple with her shadow.
I think it comes from millions of years sitting behind the bush, looking straight ahead, trying to hit that buffalo on the head with a rock.
But they only make up the royal portion of the line – behind them winds the entire civilian city, which includes holy men with portable chapels and mosques, families, tradesmen, and shepherds.
[The Way We Work] Howdy, my name is Matt, and I'm the CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com,
I would sit behind her in this overstuffed chair.
The interesting part was that it was now Mom, sitting behind me, watching me paint her working on that very same machine she sewed at when I sat behind her, watching her sew, 50 years earlier.
We're taught to turn ourselves and our work into little nuggets that are easily digestible; taught to mutilate ourselves so that we make sense to others, to be a stranger to ourselves so the right people might befriend us and the right schools might accept us, and the right jobs might hire us, and the right parties might invite us, and, someday, the right God might invite us to the right heaven and close his pearly gates behind us, so we can bow down to Him forever and ever.
Blog posts, photographs, thoughts, feelings, opinions, all of these things were being expressed by people online, and leaving behind trails.
She was chaffing wheat, and that pile of wheat behind her had taken her about a week to make.
One of them was on Brownian motion, it provided empirical evidence that atoms exist, and it laid out the basic mathematics behind most of financial economics.
Even I had to leave, leaving my children behind with my in-laws.
And I was looking for what is the reason behind it.
Meanwhile, in the open ocean, wind is the major force behind surface currents.
It also has a higher concentration of salt, because the ice crystals that form trap water while leaving salt behind.
[This talk contains mature content] In 1969, I was standing behind a Sylvania black-and-white television set.
I was working on my computer when my friend, seeing me hunched over typing, walked over behind me.
Instead, artists and organizers came together in their poetry to create incredible murals and did the video that we see behind us.
And, you know, it's a thing your piano teacher teaches you, but we never had a science behind these kinds of things.
And this is kind of another example of putting a science behind natural behavior.
And sometimes just taking an interest in the individual, in the fellows you've met, and the businesspeople you've met, it can make a huge difference, especially in Africa, because usually the individual in Africa carries a lot of people behind them.
"Don't you want to leave anything behind?"
I want women to know that your choice to embrace or forego motherhood is not in any way tied to your worthiness or identity as spouses, as adults, or as women ... and there absolutely is a choice behind maternity, and it is yours and yours alone.
And there’s a cunning purpose behind these elaborate displays: many orchids trick insects, sometimes even into having sex with them.
These are all likely reasons why studies have found that children who attend schools in noisy areas are more likely to lag behind their peers in academic performance.
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