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Providing individuality at scale is a challenge that most consumer-facing businesses encounter.
I'm sure that people here who work on, say, climate change and global warming, or on the future of the Internet, encounter people who have very strong opinions about what's going to happen next.
You encounter a whole new network of people.
You may encounter one from time to time, but you've got to find a way to get over it, around it, or through it.
To answer questions like, how is it that, from a brief encounter, we're able to make an estimate of how trustworthy another person is? Mimicry's believed to play a role, but how?
If God is in all people, then there is a meeting place where my relationship with you becomes a three-way encounter.
I got in the water with 30 other leopard seals, and I never once had a scary encounter.
Now, before I tell you about the technology, the bad news is that a significant fraction of us in this room, if we live long enough, will encounter, perhaps, a brain disorder.
Fifty years on from Watson's accidental encounter with the Sun, Jansky's careful listening ushered in a new age of space exploration: the radio astronomy age.
This personal encounter with institutionalized racism altered my relationship with reading forever.
There are places on that island where you can encounter a new language every two or three miles.
And it's true; there are places on that island where you can encounter a new language in under a mile.
The first one is that in life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.
And this has really gotten me thinking about this experience of the initial encounter.
And naturally, I encounter a lot of resistance, because it's considered to be anti-intellectual and counter to serious learning.
There, you encounter tall risers, so you move more quickly.
He had an encounter with a man behind him, and as you can see, the man behind him has covered his face with a balaclava.
If you encounter something that you believe is problematic, that disturbs you, that concerns you, an injustice of some kind, something that just doesn't feel quite right, then why not witness it, record it and share it?
They're preparing themselves for the kind of world they will encounter on the other side of the womb.
Art is a visceral encounter with the most important ideas of your faith.
You have a likable hero who has a desire, they encounter a roadblock and ultimately they emerge, transform, and that's the basic structure.
So you'll encounter resistance.
We encounter hardships.
You know, you guys are all likable people, you have a desire, you encounter roadblocks, and we stop there.
And that’s extremely useful to scientists because when they encounter an unfamiliar insect in the wild, they can learn a lot about it just by examining how it eats.
One of the most exciting to me is this young man, Stephen Bradley, had an encounter, he thought, with Jesus in 1820.
I step off, I'm standing on the platform, and I feel my index finger in the first scar that I ever got, from my umbilical cord, and then around that, is traced the last scar that I got from my surgeon, and I think that, that chance encounter with those kids on the street with their knives led me to my surgical team, and their training and their skill and, always, a little bit of luck pushed back against chaos.
Now my first professional encounter with deception is a little bit later than these guys, a couple thousand years.
Although she may not know this, my encounter with Celine has completely changed the way in which I view HIV clinical trials in developing countries, and made me even more determined to be part of the movement to change the way in which things are done.
It was a random encounter when I was young, and since then, I've often wondered about the amazing success of physics in describing the reality we wake up in every day.
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