Great in sentence

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And so the Shah invents an Iranian history, or a return to Iranian history, that puts him in the center of a great tradition and produces coins showing himself with the Cyrus cylinder.

When he has his great celebrations in Persepolis, he summons the cylinder and the cylinder is lent by the British Museum, goes to Tehran, and is part of those great celebrations of the Pahlavi dynasty.

And it becomes critical for the Iranians to remember their great past, their great past when they fought Iraq and won.

It became a great emblem, a great subject of debate about what Iran is at home and abroad.

This is heady national rhetoric, and it was all put together in a great pageant launching the return.

Here you see this out-sized Cyrus cylinder on the stage with great figures from Iranian history gathering to take their place in the heritage of Iran.

It's a debate that's still continuing, and it will continue to rumble, because this object is one of the great declarations of a human aspiration.

In New York this autumn, it will be present when the great debates about the future of the Middle East take place.

Now I was a comparative literature major in college, which is like an English major, only instead of being stuck studying Chaucer for three months, we got to read great literature in translation from around the world.

And as great as these books were, you could always tell that you were getting close to the full effect.

Time after time, whenever I set out to share some great truth with a soon-to-be grateful recipient, it had the opposite effect.

And the result is great comedy that's also an information delivery system that scores markedly higher in both credibility and retention than the professional news media.

A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick, where you think it's going over here and then all of a sudden you're transported over here.

Economy of language is another real strong suit of great comedy.

People can't wait to pass along that new great joke.

Back then, when Arjuna, the great Indian warrior prince, when he was thirsty, he'd take out a bow, he'd shoot it into the ground and water would come out.

So we're probably not doing a great job when it comes to risk taking.

We're not doing a great job managing money.

There's several examples up on the screen of situations where doctors are looking to implant devices inside of people, and all of these devices now, it's standard that they communicate wirelessly, and I think this is great, but without a full understanding of trustworthy computing, and without understanding what attackers can do and the security risks from the beginning, there's a lot of danger in this.

When a friend of mine told me that I needed to see this great video about a guy protesting bicycle fines in New York City, I admit I wasn't very interested.

And they feature as their role models really great salesmen.

It's great for introverts and it's great for extroverts.

I spend most of my time in very low-income communities in the projects and places where there's a great deal of hopelessness.

Vaclav Havel, the great Czech leader, talked about this.

I had the great privilege, when I was a young lawyer, of meeting Rosa Parks.

The great increase in mass incarceration in this country wasn't really in violent crime categories.

And there they make great apps, they work with city staffers.

And that's great news, because, it turns out, we're very good at collective action with digital technology.

So this is great.

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