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My big idea is a very, very small idea that can unlock billions of big ideas that are at the moment dormant inside us.
He was arrested because there were transfers of eight million dollars that went into some dormant accounts that belonged to him and his family.
It's like a dormant command that suddenly is activated in you, like a call to Devil's Tower.
It's dormant.
It turned out that more than 100 years of research on spinal cord physiology, starting with the Nobel Prize Sherrington, had shown that the spinal cord, below most injuries, contained all the necessary and sufficient neural networks to coordinate locomotion, but because input from the brain is interrupted, they are in a nonfunctional state, like kind of dormant.
It took many years, but eventually we developed an electrochemical neuroprosthesis that transformed the neural network in the spinal cord from dormant to a highly functional state.
The parasite holds up in a dormant state for a long period of time.
My research taught us that we needed to remind Mark's damaged and dormant spinal cord of its upright, standing, running form, and we found San Francisco-based engineers at Ekso Bionics, who created this robotic exoskeleton that would allow Mark to stand and walk in the lab that we started to build in Dublin.
So the potential for superintelligence lies dormant in matter, much like the power of the atom lay dormant throughout human history, patiently waiting there until 1945.
Now, the Panic Monster is dormant most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime a deadline gets too close or there's danger of public embarrassment, a career disaster or some other scary consequence.
Experimental blends of concrete include these bacterial or fungal spores alongside nutrients in their concrete mix, where they could lie dormant for hundreds of years.
When the cracks seal, the bacteria or fungi will make spores and go dormant once more— ready to start a new cycle of self-healing when cracks form again.
But in a tiny percentage, the instructions for building more HIV viruses lies dormant, sometimes for years.
But so long as it’s kept dormant with drugs, HIV remains undetectable.
In these latent infections, the TB bacterium may be dormant, only activating when someone’s immune system is too weak to mount a defense.
And though it had been dormant for over 1,000 years, it was well preserved in books of Jewish religion and philosophy.
The language had been dormant for over 100 years, but they used old books and plays to teach it to their children.
And that whole movement had subsided, and my activist spirit went dormant.
Now the ideas that I'm presenting today were imbued upon me through some otherwise unfortunate circumstances, granted, but they're lying dormant in the lives of anyone who's willing to exploit them.
It's almost like being exposed to all this media over the years had instilled a kind of dormant design literacy in me.
A young man,(Don Digiulio) inherits a farm in West Virginia that has been dormant for generations.
Divorced single mom in picturesque seaside town finds an anonymous love letter and allows it to spur into action her dormant love life.
A few bratty kids unwittingly unleash an evil that has lain dormant for the past twenty years and have to reap the ill fortune that comes with that.The Campbell Brothers' film before this "Midnight Skater" was fun & their picture after "the Red Skulls" was all right.
The first is an alien, that had been dormant in the object, and the other is a virus that instantly kills the research staff.
I always felt like the presence of evil was dormant in all of our minds, with only the circumstances of the moment, and the reasons given therein, needed to wake its violent ass and pounce over its unsuspecting victims.
Hostile invading aliens reanimate a dormant giant lizard-like creature named Yonggary to eradicate humanity and take control of Earth.
Unsurprisingly, The Fly II is a disappointment, emerging as a mere exercise in formulaic shocks and little else, as young Martin Brundle (Eric Stoltz) is brought up by the sinister Bartok (Lee Richardson) only to realise his horrendous destiny as dormant genes in his body begin to transform him into a crossbreed of fly and human, just his like deceased father.
Except for the fact that it somehow left a strange impression on me, and a dormant urge to some day revisit it.
What he does discover is that inside him lying dormant is an animal desiring to get out.
It wakens all the old dormant brain cells.
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