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Now, it was a big risk, and it wouldn't work for every story, but we showed with the Panama Papers that you can write about any country from just about anywhere, and then choose your preferred battleground to defend your work.
But for most of the countries in Africa, it's going to be a lot more dicey: extreme climate conditions, radicalism both from Islam and also Christianity, very poor governance, borders you can't defend, lots of forced migration.
There's some really interesting work on how our high intelligence and our verbal abilities might have evolved not to help us find out the truth, but to help us manipulate each other, defend our reputation ... We're really, really good at justifying ourselves.
The water protectors are being forcibly removed from the camp that they have set up to defend what keeps us alive.
We're taught to defend our design against criticism.
Four days and 5,000 pieces later, our data was used in court to not only defend but double the tax, generating an annual recurring revenue of four million dollars for San Francisco to clean itself up.
And I think we have a tendency to not be clear about this, to try to move our inner truths to outer truths, or to not be fair about it to each other, and when people are telling us their inner truths, to try to make them defend them by outer-truth standards.
It particularly targets helper T cells, which help defend the body against bacterial and fungal infections.
I will do anything to defend myself against interference with this objective that I have been given."
They owned it: they knew who they were, and they would defend it, no matter what.
And they will defend it no matter what.
That's why most countries have vaccines that defend against the disease in its deadliest forms.
But for me, beyond fear was the need to defend my identity, to not let them turn me into a thing or a number.
That was one of the principles: to defend what I considered to be human dignity.
They spent their careers working to defend the rights of some of our most vulnerable citizens, and they passed these values down to me and my brother, and we want to do the same with our sons.
And she told me, "Because I'm proud to defend my country."
This puts us at an enormous disadvantage, particularly when we have to defend ourselves and our own interests.
If you defend yourself, if you put a stake in the ground, there can be dire consequences.
And we have these huge rocks, you know, killer-sized rocks in the hundreds of thousands or millions out there, and while the probability is very small, the impact, figured in literally, of one of these hitting the Earth is so huge that to spend a small fraction looking, searching, preparing to defend, is not unreasonable.
I wanted to defend myself.
So from our very first day, in 1957, the European Union had rules to defend fair competition.
Women are not taught that they are going to have to defend themselves, that they're going to have to support themselves and they have to protect themselves.
There is the statue of a soldier present below, but he is unable to defend the woman and child.
And you know, and the troubling thing is that it's much easier to do something bad than to defend against all possible bad things, so the offensive uses really have an asymmetric advantage.
Yeah, they wrote to defend the idea that there had to be a reason for what happened to me.
I could not defend myself, so I decided to withdraw from the meeting and boycott the whole system.
What sort of talents must we be sure to defend?
Sirko vows that tomorrow, they will ride against their common enemy, defend the Cossacks’ autonomy, and bring unity to the Wild Fields.
Is it plausible that when a soldier jumps on a grenade to defend fellow soldiers, they're just promoting their narrow self-interest?
Two: Can you defend it?
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