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I want to devote my talk today to the act of speaking itself, and how the act of speaking or not speaking is tied so indelibly to one's identity as to force the birth of a new person when it is taken away.
And you could see how my poor, manipulated sister faced conflict, as her little brain attempted to devote resources to feeling the pain and suffering and surprise she just experienced, or contemplating her new-found identity as a unicorn.
How did we get here where we devote hundreds of acres and thousands of hours to waiting?
We're going to devote enormous social resources to punishing the people who commit those crimes, and that's appropriate because we should punish people who do bad things.
If we make the picture bigger and devote our attention to the earlier chapters, then we're never going to write the first sentence that begins the death penalty story.
It made me absolutely determined to devote my life to finding solutions.
Today, I devote all of my time to working on this problem, and I'll go wherever the science takes me.
And as soon as I found that word, I realized that I wanted to devote much of the rest of my life to it.
Well, if you were sitting next to me in the car that day and would have told me that I would devote the next years to trying to reform them, obviously I would have called you crazy.
And we devote an inordinate amount of time and pressure, inordinate and appropriate, actually I should say, amount of time and effort in order to ensure that we protect that privacy.
You either have to have a fair bit of money and influence, or you have to devote your entire life to politics.
These warriors now devote themselves and their lives to making sure what happened to them doesn't happen to anyone else.
She made a decision not to go and get a razor or a glass shard, but to devote her life to stopping that happening to other girls.
Well, we mathematicians devote ourselves to come up with theorems.
At that moment, he decided to devote his life to anesthesiology.
It's this idea of destiny or the one true calling, the idea that we each have one great thing we are meant to do during our time on this earth, and you need to figure out what that thing is and devote your life to it.
The government has all this regulation and bureaucracy around things like burying a death, for example, and there's people like funeral directors who devote their entire working lives to this issue.
Wouldn't it be more sensible to simplify the current rules so that all the time we devote today to teaching spelling, we could devote to other language issues whose complexities do, in fact, deserve the time and effort?
Each of our weekly team meetings could devote 10 minutes to a debate about a proposal to change the way in which that team works.
It is very difficult for the fonio producers today to sell and use fonio unless they devote a huge amount of time and energy in threshing, winnowing and husking it.
I feel like I could devote my life to figuring out what to play with my kids."
Since returning to Gaul, she has received many offers of marriage– but she has decided to devote herself to her work, at least for now.
In the publication, he admonished Sor Juana to devote herself to prayer rather than debate.
And he urged the people in that meeting, in that community, to devote themselves to closing the gap between those two ideas, to work together to try to make the world as it is and the world as it should be, one and the same.
But Larry Page made an impassioned speech at our organizing meeting, saying we should devote this study to actually addressing some of the major challenges facing humanity.
A "vagina warrior" is a woman, or a vagina-friendly man, who has witnessed incredible violence or suffered it, and rather than getting an AK-47 or a weapon of mass destruction or a machete, they hold the violence in their bodies; they grieve it; they experience it; and then they go out and devote their lives to making sure it doesn't happen to anybody else.
Went on, and eventually decided to devote myself, full time, to that.
I don't know if I'm even capable of tackling all the things wrong with it--like the fact that the casting director appears to have pulled names out of a hat, or the mind-blower of Richard Gere's character being allowed to walk away scot-free at the end (I'm sure the people saying, "It's just fiction, who cares" would have no problem if it was a former Al-Qaeda operative who just wants to return to his home country)--so I'll just devote my review to the utter hilarity, which is mainly the scene where Bruce Willis is testing out his gun.
I thought that maybe I'll see what it's like first then devote more time to it the next day.
At the end of any age group's lesson, simply devote 5 minutes to pausing and playing the DVD, encouraging students to shout out the answers to "What's this?", "What will happen?",
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