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Hometown security means rebuilding our natural defenses, putting people to work, restoring our natural systems.
This is why you keep sacrificing virgins, and why your unicorn defenses are working just great.
And just like that, you've been seduced into a different way of looking at something because the endorphins have brought down your defenses.
We want to have our defenses up and our strategies all in order.
So honeybees have these remarkable natural defenses that have kept them healthy and thriving for over 50 million years.
And when bees have access to good nutrition, they're better able to engage their own natural defenses, their healthcare, that they have relied on for millions of years.
For poison dart frogs and many other animals with neurotoxic defenses, a few genetic changes alter the structure of the alkaloid-binding site just enough to keep the neurotoxin from exerting its adverse effects.
And sea slugs eat jellyfish nematocysts, prevent their activation with compounds in their mucus, and repurpose them for their own defenses.
No one has natural defenses against, nor been vaccinated against measles.
We are in a city where more than 90 percent of the population has defenses against the measles, which means that they either had the disease, survived, and developed natural defenses; or that they had been immunized against measles.
They are our parents, our siblings, our acquaintances, who may have a disease, or take medication that lowers their defenses.
Other bacteria, to protect themselves, evolve defenses against that chemical attack.
Every time we use an antibiotic, we give the bacteria billions of chances to crack the codes of the defenses we've constructed.
But nowadays, the millions of queen bees distributed in commercial hives are bred from just a few original queens, which raises the worry about a lack of genetic diversity which could weaken bees' defenses against pathogens and pests.
Exposing your brain to challenges, like learning a new language, is one of the best defenses for keeping your memories intact.
That strengthens teeth and encourages the growth of enamel crystals that build up a tooth's defenses against acid.
This system is a vast network of cells, tissues, and organs that coordinate your body’s defenses against any threats to your health.
What remains is a cancer cell with no special defenses.
My research shows that when you give people a choice among options, it lowers their defenses, and they're more likely to accept your offer.
It is to meet this threat that the Air Force has been developing SAGE, the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment system, to strengthen our air defenses.
It was a nurturing, loving environment, where they were encouraged to let down their emotional defenses and talk about how awful it is to have breast cancer with people who understood because they were going through it too.
What if those who hire bioengineers and become them give 20 percent of their time to building defenses for the common good?
Building on a rapidly growing body of psychology and social science, I spent years looking into the five inner defenses that stop people from engaging.
New research shows how we can flip these five defenses over into key success criteria for a more brain-friendly climate communication.
In the meantime, some of our best defenses against arthritis are lifestyle choices: maintaining a healthy weight to take pressure off joints, low-impact exercises like yoga or cycling, and avoiding smoking.
Octavia’s been after it for years, but try as she might, the defenses thwart her.
And while it was unclear in the 1970s or '80s how exactly the Tay-Sachs mutation offered protection against TB, recent work has identified how the mutation increases cellular defenses against the bacterium.
Our immune system is continuously evolving to limit their ability to infect, and they are continuously developing ways to outmaneuver our defenses.
There are beautiful sets by Julia Heron, Gregg Toland's cinematography and a script by Robert E. Sherwood, author of "The Road to Rome" and other defenses of individuals against tyrannical ideas.
By using their wits, The Man and the old genius are able to keep the Brute and his ilk at bay, but they realise it is only a matter of time before their defenses are compromised, so they make a break for it.
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