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But they are also very effective in deflecting our path.
Now to make sure that this was no reaction of the fly to a flash it could see, Susana did a simple but brutally effective experiment.
Torture, rape and ethnic cleansing have become highly effective, if often non-lethal, weapons in civil war.
And of course, if you want people to play by the rules, you still need an effective system of monitoring and enforcement, for as we've discovered, you can trust, but you also need to verify.
The tricky thing is that these harsh chemicals are really effective at keeping a garment a specific color for a long period of time.
Commerce, on the other hand, is relatively quick, essentially creative, highly effective and efficient, and fundamentally honest, because we can't exchange value for very long if we don't trust each other.
And so what they do is they follow the scripts, but they follow the scripts at double-time and squirrel away little bits of extra time during which they teach in the way that they actually know is effective.
And in order to be an effective doctor, you need to treat people who have lives and not just disease.
And I'm very happy to report that we're now using a dose of radiation that is equivalent to the effective dose from one digital mammogram.
These things are shown to be pretty effective in terms of getting people to slow down.
It isn't this kind of vague promise that it's going to work no matter what, but you get the statistics for how effective it is.
And then in the 1980's, they determined that one particular cocktail of chemo could be effective, and within weeks I had started that regimen.
My own work focuses on making philanthropy more effective and capitalism more inclusive.
That's effective, but if they decide themselves, "We want to clean this river and put the fish back that used to be there.
The first benefit of compassion is that it creates highly effective business leaders.
It makes us a highly effective company.
There is an effective evolution lobby coordinating the fight on behalf of science, and I try to do all I can to help them, but they get quite upset when people like me dare to mention that we happen to be atheists as well as evolutionists.
This book, "Finding Darwin's God," by Kenneth Miller, is one of the most effective attacks on Intelligent Design that I know and it's all the more effective because it's written by a devout Christian.
Extremely effective.
So these two devices, DriveGrip and SpeedStrip, are very effective.
And by understanding these sorts of processes and these connections, we're going to understand the effects of medication or meditation and better personalize and make effective, for example, psychoactive drugs.
We'd like to get therapies better and more effective.
He also had the most effective virtual private network security arrangement the police have ever encountered amongst global cybercriminals.
So we know, for example, that two sugar pills a day are a more effective treatment for gastric ulcers than one sugar pill.
We know from three different studies on three different types of pain that a saltwater injection is a more effective treatment than a sugar pill, a dummy pill with no medicine in it, not because the injection or pills do anything physically to the body, but because an injection feels like a much more dramatic intervention.
We need to have all of the data on a particular treatment to know whether or not it really is effective.
The infectious diseases Cochrane Group, which are based in Italy, has been trying to get the full data in a usable form out of the drug companies, so they can make a full decision about whether this drug is effective or not, and they've not been able to get that information.
It looks as if the waving is a more effective strategy than the other strategy.
This con man, Henry Oberlander, he was such an effective con man, British authorities say he could have undermined the entire banking system of the Western world.
Women and children are very effective in terms of NGO campaigns.
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