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At 15 cents per page, they basically stopped these efforts.

As a result of these efforts, and the help of many others, it happened.

I understand that a lot of women who have been trying to speak out about these issues, today and yesterday and for years and years, often get shouted down for their efforts.

And we see very serious and sustained and data-driven efforts to understand how to intervene in some of the most troubled communities that we have.

Now, it just shouldn't take these sorts of efforts to find out where the money in deals like this went.

The numbers of deer, because there was nothing to hunt them, had built up and built up in the Yellowstone Park, and despite efforts by humans to control them, they'd managed to reduce much of the vegetation there to almost nothing, they'd just grazed it away.

But they don't put much stock in efforts to prolong life in the face of debilitating illness or in old age.

Its leash had been tied to the chair as her master went in for coffee, and she was just persistent in her efforts to greet me, perhaps get a scratch behind the ear.

Now these efforts are small, they're often underfunded, and they face formidable opposition.

The employees, who have to compensate through their super individual efforts for the lack of cooperation.

I noticed that, despite all the efforts, there were familiar stories that kept resurfacing about individuals.

That would be awesome, and we could just concentrate all our efforts there.

Malala started her campaign for education and stood for her rights in 2007, and when her efforts were honored in 2011, and she was given the national youth peace prize, and she became a very famous, very popular young girl of her country.

What are you doing that's different than other efforts to balance rights for gun ownership and responsibilities?

So, absent being able to anticipate the future, what we all do, as good parents, is try and prepare our kids for every possible kind of future, hoping that just one of our efforts will pay off.

The massive efforts to create synthetic cells have made us world leaders at writing DNA.

And those days turned to weeks, and weeks to months, and pretty soon those months have turned into years with very little to show for your efforts.

And despite all of our best efforts and intentions, kids are always going to figure out how to do the most dangerous thing they can, in whatever environment they can.

Far away in the American Midwest, I had the good fortune of meeting Somali-Americans who were working to counter the efforts of al Shabaab to recruit a small number of young people from their city of Minneapolis to take part in atrocities like Westgate.

To counter the efforts of al Shabaab to sway more disaffected youth, in the wake of the group's 2010 attack on World Cup viewers in Uganda, he organized a Ramadan basketball tournament in Minneapolis in response.

For his efforts, Mr. Bihi has been ostracized by the leadership of the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center, with which he used to have good relations.

And you may like or dislike the efforts I'm describing here in Boulder or in Tuscaloosa, but you cannot help but admire the power literacy of the players involved, their skill.

I would love to invest in a bullet train system in India and I would love to contribute to efforts to fight malaria in my village.

So then I go back home and I talk to people involved in anti-drug efforts there, and they'd say, "You know, Ethan, you can't really cut off the demand.

There have, of course, been efforts in the past to move beyond GDP.

And we see some evidence now that China's efforts on clean energy is actually having an effect, not just on air pollution reduction, but also on global climate change, where China has the world's largest carbon footprint.

These efforts brought hundreds of thousands of books to Alexandria.

Violence in Congo is in large part driven by local bottom-up conflicts that international peace efforts have failed to help address.

The story starts from the fact that not only is Congo notable for being the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crisis, but it is also home to some of the largest international peacebuilding efforts in the world.

Why have the massive international efforts failed to help Congo achieve lasting peace and security?

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