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And what scientists didn't predict is that, as this ice melts, these big pockets of black water are forming and they're grabbing the sun's energy and accelerating the melting process.
It's grabbing its blood vessels for itself.
Everybody was grabbing something.
I watched in horror heartbreaking footage of the head nurse, Malak, in the aftermath of the bombing, grabbing premature babies out of their incubators, desperate to get them to safety, before she broke down in tears.
And that moment of inspiration, that key invention moment, was when I was sitting in front of my design notebook and I started thinking about somebody grabbing a lever, and if they grab near the end of the lever, they can get an effectively long lever and produce a lot of torque as they push back and forth, and effectively get a low gear.
The exciting thing is that I see students at my school with ambition grabbing at opportunity.
But grabbing whoever you're living with or sleeping with when everyone on Facebook starts walking down the aisle is not progress.
Because windows and files have a position in the real space, selecting them is as easy as grabbing a book off your shelf.
And so a hammer, when we grab a hammer, that's what we're grabbing.
RF: And they do really well at grabbing onto surfaces with these claws.
So here the left and right channel stay in sync, but if we want to, we can override that by grabbing both of them at the same time.
I spent a couple years finishing graduate school, and the whole entire time while I'm sitting there in buildings at Oxford that were literally built hundreds of years before the United States was even founded, and I'm sitting there talking to dons about the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and how that influenced the start of World War I, where the entire time my heart and my head were on my soldiers who were now throwing on Kevlars and grabbing their flak vests and figuring out how exactly do I change around or how exactly do I clean a machine gun in the darkness.
What we realized is not only do they stop taking care of the reef, darting in, grabbing a little bit of algae and going back into their homes, they start spreading out and disappearing from those particular coral reefs.
The lord of the dead allowed Hercules to take the beast if he could do it without weapons, which he achieved by grabbing all three of its heads at once.
In this case, this is a Philly cheesesteak hoagie that it's grabbing out of thin air.
And even if we succeed in grabbing the water from our rural neighbors, we're just transferring the problem to someone else and there's a good chance it will come back and bite us in the form of higher food prices and damage to the aquatic ecosystems that already rely upon that water.
Consider a simple task, like grabbing and eating an apple.
Activists around the world are getting better at grabbing headlines, but these isolated actions do very little if they're not part of a larger strategy.
It's possible because the mycelium produces oxalic acids, and many other acids and enzymes, pockmarking rock and grabbing calcium and other minerals and forming calcium oxalates.
So while hacked phone calls and emails and networks keep grabbing the headlines, the real operations are the ones that are influencing the decisions you make and the opinions you hold, all in the service of a nation-state's strategic interest.
Our teachers actually took time during the lesson plan to teach kids how to identify their feelings and appropriate, healthy coping strategies for dealing with them, such as counting to 10, grabbing a fidget spinner or taking a quick walk.
Enzymes that chew things up, antibodies, it’s all, you know, the fit between a protein and whatever it is grabbing, in this case a smell.
When you hear your boys talking about grabbing ass or getting her drunk, will you actually stand up and do something so that one day we don't have to live in a world where a woman has to risk everything and come forward to say the words "me too?" (Applause) This is serious stuff.
Claws are ideal for piercing, puncturing, and hooking, but their points make grabbing difficult, and potentially dangerous.
And she pulled back, threw down her arms, put them on her hips, turned around and yelled across the room, "This guy is built like a god-damned mountain of muscle, and he's grabbing me like a fucking Frenchman," (Laughter) which I found encouraging.
So, here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something.
Worms have a little bit of a problem grabbing the headlines.
Instead of grabbing his gun for protection, she drags the poor slob into the crapper and locks the door.
Shot after shot of Bishop walking up to some random chick and grabbing her most intimate parts, as if he were shaking her hand.
I have always been a fan of Bottom, grabbing as many videos as I could find of the series here in the states.
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