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And a lot of them had been former educators or would-be educators, so they combined with a lot of local designers, local writers, and they just took the idea independently and they did their own thing.
The former is a scale shift.
But through court documents, open records requests and interviews with current and former prisoners, some small windows into the CMUs have opened.
I relied overwhelmingly on primary source documents or on primary interviews with former and current prisoners, with people that are dealing with this situation every day.
BG: Anders, I'm a former journalist, and to me, it's amazing that in the current climate of slashing budgets and publishers in crisis, Dagbladet has consented so many resources for this story, which tells a lot about newspapers taking the responsibility, but how did you sell it to your editors?
So these new teams and the families were then given a sliver of the former budget, but they could spend the money in any way they chose.
Most scientists think it's the former, that there's some kind of energy driving the acceleration, and they called it <i>dark energy</i>.
But I'll tell you what, though, guys, I'll tell you what: any day is a good day, any day is a good day if you receive an email that begins like this: (Laughter) "I AM WINNIE MANDELA, THE SECOND WIFE OF NELSON MANDELA THE FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT."
Let's look at another example from former Senator and U.S. Presidential candidate John Edwards: "I only know that the apparent father has said publicly that he is the father of the baby.
We went to India to give a talk, and our parents took us to visit the former private house of Mahatma Gandhi.
Over the past five years, our team of imaging scientists, scholars and students has travelled to seven different countries and have recovered some of the world's most valuable damaged manuscripts, included the Vercelli Book, which is the oldest book of English, the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest book of Welsh, and some of the most valuable earliest Gospels located in what is now the former Soviet Georgia.
However, this switch came too late for thirteen former colonies that had already gained independence.
Former UN Secretary Kofi Annan has spoken candidly about his personal failure leading to the Rwandan genocide.
The former are not symptomatic of an underlying disease, injury, or condition; they are the condition.
He radicalized the Bauhaus Design School in 1920s Germany, and yet some of his former colleagues shunned him when he struggled to open a new Bauhaus in Chicago years later.
And together with my former student and main collaborator Clément Mouhot, in Paris at the time, we had been working for months and months on such a proof.
Until a few months ago, Guatemala was ruled by corrupt former military officials with ties to organized crime.
In 2002, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, gave a speech at Yale University, and that speech was on the topic of inclusive globalization.
Patrick Quinlan, former CEO of Ochsner Health [System], told me about the effects of their 10-5 way, where if you're within 10 feet of someone, you make eye contact and smile, and if you're within five feet, you say hello.
Former Eastern Bloc countries and sub-Saharan African countries rank higher than us as far as quality and value.
As a respected Peruvian archaeologist and former vice-minister, Dr. Castillo will be helping us coordinate and share the data with archaeologists so they can explore these sites on the ground.
A friend and former colleague of mine, Hisham Almiraat, has been charged with threatening state security, along with six other activists in Morocco.
After all, I was the so-called expert there, the former 20-year television news anchor and life and business coach.
Meanwhile, Alexios’s military excursions began to pay off, restoring many of the empire’s former territories.
A couple of months before the campaign started or any of this happened to me, I went to a TEDx event in Oxford, and I saw Zelda la Grange speak, the former private secretary to Nelson Mandela.
So the result is that for over 20 years, our two nations had a program that meant that one in 10 lightbulbs in the United States was essentially fueled by former Russian warheads.
The former head of the FBI used to sit in his car, lock himself in after meetings with the president and write down absolutely everything he could remember about what happened.
So I spent the next two years interviewing convicted terrorists, jihadis and former extremists.
And don't you know, when I was sitting at home alone in my nightgown, I got a phone call, and it was my beloved former husband, and he said on a voice mail, "Loved one ... what is happening to you is not OK."
Former Czech president, Vaclav Havel, I think, put it best.
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