Extent in sentence

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The third thing, and this is what worries me the most, is the extent to which those same largely positive forces which are driving the rise of the global plutocracy also happen to be hollowing out the middle class in Western industrialized economies.

Now appearances, of course, can be deceptive, and to an extent, this feisty, energetic persona of lecture-going and traffic cone stealing was a veneer, albeit a very well-crafted and convincing one.

The other thing that's really important about sleep is that it doesn't arise from a single structure within the brain, but is to some extent a network property.

Just over three years ago, I was for the first time in Caracas, Venezuela, and while flying over the city, I was just amazed by the extent to which the slums reach into every corner of the city, a place where nearly 70 percent of the population lives in slums, draped literally all over the mountains.

In Mostar the bridge was synonymous with the name of the place, and to such an extent that in the war in 1993 when the bridge was destroyed, the town all but lost its identity until the bridge was reconstructed.

As Lord Blackstone described it, land is protected by trespass law, for most of the history of trespass law, by presuming it protects the land all the way down below and to an indefinite extent upward.

In several countries, doctors and nurses are the targets, to some extent, for the governments.

The first is that there is so much more to learn and we're not making the investment in fully understanding the extent of these sex differences.

And to a certain extent, multiple times a day, whether consciously or subconsciously, I need to remind myself not to fart publicly.

Not everyone has all these symptoms, or experiences them to the same extent and intensity.

Yet, as has become strikingly clear over the last couple of years, such responsibility has to a very great extent been abrogated by large sections of the media.

But to some extent, we all have a network of people that we're comfortable with.

So it may not be surprising to any of you that animals, including ourselves, spend a good amount of time thinking about sex, but what might surprise you is the extent to which so many other aspects of their lives and our lives are influenced by it.

For the first month, that was the extent of Gabby's vocabulary.

We'll be able to see the extent of all water bodies around the whole world every day and help water security.

That is and should be the extent of our authority.

There was a fascinating study prior to the 2008 election where social psychologists looked at the extent to which the candidates were associated with America, as in an unconscious association with the American flag.

And in one of their studies they compared Obama and McCain, and they found McCain is thought of as more American than Obama, and to some extent, people aren't that surprised by hearing that.

But this is basically the extent of the family that I know in terms of my direct line.

And to some extent, the fight against tax havens and automatic transmission of information is pushing us in this direction.

So, even if that wasn't enough to win a seat in Congress, it was enough for us to become part of the conversation, to the extent that next month, Congress, as an institution, is launching for the first time in Argentina's history, a DemocracyOS to discuss, with the citizens, three pieces of legislation: two on urban transportation and one on the use of public space.

They have also, to a lesser extent, invited people to participate in improving the outcome of decisions that were already made for them, just like my mom when I was eight and she told me that I had a choice: I had to be in bed by 8 p.m., but I could choose my pink pajamas or my blue pajamas.

So the key question is not if technology replaces some of these jobs, but when, how fast, and to what extent?

The shocking police crackdown on protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown, underscored the extent to which advanced military weapons and equipment, designed for the battlefield, are making their way to small-town police departments across the United States.

And I couldn't really face that, so I started to challenge the conventions of the time, even to the extent of changing my name from "Stephanie" to "Steve" in my business development letters, so as to get through the door before anyone realized that he was a she.

Consider the extent to which we have not colonized the deserts of our own planet, places that are lush by comparison with Mars.

Now, this is a bit surprising, because to the extent that we think about vision at all, we think of it as like a camera.

I mean, first of all, some people may just be profoundly depressed at the thought that, if evolution does not favor reality, I mean, doesn't that to some extent undermine all our endeavors here, all our ability to think that we can think the truth, possibly even including your own theory, if you go there?

When they dive deep into the ocean, these mechanisms become activated, but to a greater extent.

And you know, to a certain extent, there are other people out there who are taking care of things for us.

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