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There is bound to be a certain loss of identity, and this is what we will be looking for in the future if and when we do migrate.
One person I hired felt that because he attended an elite university, there were certain assignments that were beneath him, like temporarily doing manual labor to better understand an operation.
So in the parking lot you stay for a certain amount of time, and then after this you just, you know, go back, you see more of the things you like to see or go home with your certificate.
Using careful photography, Muybridge proved that at certain points as it gallops, a horse really is flying.
Bioluminescence refers to the ability of certain living things to create light.
Since the Japanese revered certain fish, the fishermen would take a rubbing from these fish and release them.
Almost 60 years before Darwin published his book, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed that creatures evolve by developing certain traits over their lifetimes and then passing those on to their offspring.
But the really weird thing is that you don't need to have a piece of land of a certain size before you're allowed to start burying people on it.
And you know, to a certain extent, there are other people out there who are taking care of things for us.
Certain types of learning don't seem to lead to this sort of negativity bias.
The moon appears a certain size.
We need to combine all the instruments and to understand that today, in protracted situations, at a certain moment, that it doesn't make sense anymore to make a distinction between humanitarian aid and development aid or development processes.
But we can say there's a certain probability of finding an electron in a given space around the nucleus.
Past a certain distance from the nucleus, the probability of finding an electron starts to decrease more or less exponentially, which means that while it will approach zero, it'll never actually hit zero.
We've actually known for a while that certain kinds of difficulty, certain kinds of obstacle, can actually improve our performance.
Instead, what's really happening is that certain compounds in spicy foods activate the type of sensory neurons called polymodal nociceptors.
Below a certain pushing force, ketchup basically behaves like a solid.
Now, new treatments that directly stimulate or block certain pain-sensing attention or modulation networks are being developed, along with ways to tailor them to individual patients, using tools like magnetic resonance imaging to map brain pathways.
To shift its electrons from the ground state to a higher level, a molecule needs to gain a certain amount of energy.
Doctors believe that certain kinds of long-term, unexplained emotional states are at least partially related to brain chemistry, the balance of various chemicals present inside the brain.
But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances, most can be fooled with enough preparation, and none are considered reliable enough to even be admissible in court.
Turns out that the Supreme Court has made clear through a long line of cases, that certain things are not patent eligible.
Women with certain mutations along these genes are considered to be at a significantly increased risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.
As the source keeps moving in a certain direction, the successive waves in front of it will become bunched closer together.
Certain diseases, growths in the thryoid or chemical imbalances in the body can confuse the organ and make it deaf to the pituitary's guiding commands.
Over time, this causes wear and tear in your spinal discs, overworks certain ligaments and joints, and puts strain on muscles that stretch to accommodate your back's curved position.
I mean, why does bending your joints in a certain way make them pop like that?
In other words, research suggests that OCD sufferers brains are actually hardwired to behave in a certain fashion.
But comparative linguistics can help us by focusing on grammatical structure, patterns of sound changes, and certain core vocabulary.
Take the belief that you are valuable, worthwhile, and capable, also known as self-esteem, add in the optimism that comes when you are certain of your abilities, and then empowered by these, act courageously to face a challenge head-on.
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