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Yet, not only is there at least some good news to be told about fewer such conflicts now than two decades ago, but what is perhaps more important is that we also have come to a much better understanding of what can be done to further reduce the number of ethnic conflicts and civil wars and the suffering that they inflict.
So they dance a strange dance and inflict their singing on everyone.
That's another cause that I've been concerned about all my life, the immense amount of suffering that humans inflict on literally tens of billions of animals every year.
And ghosting is, basically, you disappear from this massa of texts on the spot, and you don't have to deal with the pain that you inflict on another, because you're making it invisible even to yourself.
Design can also inflict vulnerability on a group whose needs aren't considered.
In its worst form, the harm we inflict on loved ones shows up as abuse and violence, and relationship abuse is something that one in three women and one in four men will experience in their lifetime.
And massive numerical advantages do matter, even when a single bad guy can inflict grievous harm, because among many other things, they allow us to exploit the hell out of this: we have years and hopefully decades to prepare and prevent.
Next, this needs to be an effort that spans society, and all of you need to be a part of it, because we cannot ask a tiny group of experts to be responsible for both containing and exploiting synthetic biology, because we already tried that with the financial system, and our stewards became massively corrupted as they figured out how they could cut corners, inflict massive, massive risks on the rest of us and privatize the gains, becoming repulsively wealthy while they stuck us with the $22 trillion bill.
Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.
For the next eight years, I saw friends die, I saw others go to prison and inflict untold pain on countless victims and their families' lives.
What damage does it actually inflict on the plant?
And then you see what kind of damage it can inflict.
If I know you, this offer is void, because I wouldn't inflict this movie on anyone, not on purpose.
It also teases out easily for us the European and American forces that were behind the power the inflict the Congo today.
A children's' show host Mr. Rabbey avenges the brutal abuse that parents inflict upon his kiddie fans.
Karen represents all the people in the world who take in without giving back, who exist in a vacuum of their own ego and never stop to realize the emotional damage and trauma they inflict on others.
It's about life and the mistakes we make and hurt we inflict and experience over the years, and how in the end, it's all about love (I'm not trying to be hyper-sensitive or schmoopy) and finding and being with one special person.
The premise of this movie, which somehow seems to get lost in the shuffle, is that these two self-centered adults have a perfect right to go off to Las Vegas, get drunk, get married, and inflict incalculable suffering upon their respective broods of children.
The film is also effective for the even-handed way it presents the mutual brutalities that Israelies and Palestinians inflict on each other.
Basically, this just means that he's an older, fatter and sleazier male version of "Carrie" who can inflict stuff only by using his overdeveloped willpower.
Funny Games US is a motion picture study of two young psychopaths and the pain, suffering, and ends they inflict.
He has written a script especially for his muse actress Jana Bates (played by Munro) and travels to the French cinema city of Cannes to inflict his big breakthrough.
Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin" is a film that dares to point out the lasting effects of what a pedophile will inflict on a young person that will last a whole lifetime.
Certainly not for the fainthearted, this is war in all its foulness and degredation, fully exposing the evil mankind can inflict on itself.
Although, the use of these images is attached to the characters, The Henleys, who use them to gain acclaim in the Art world, it's the psychological terror that two people can inflict into destroying somebodies life that makes this film an attention grabber.
But May’s effort to present a Hobson’s Choice suffers a fatal flaw: almost nobody believes that she would dare to inflict chaos on British businesses and voters.
According to case studies of 17 countries, the world’s leading economic powers (America, Germany, Japan), as well as a wide range of other countries, are pursuing fiscal policies that inflict heavy burdens on future generations.
In the 1990s, when Russia was feeling the pinch of economic reforms, the Russian political provocateur Vladimir Zhirinovsky asked, “Why should we inflict suffering on ourselves?
Through referenda – their favorite political tool – they have been able to inflict damage to the EU constitutional treaty, the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, refugee-repatriation deals, and, with the UK’s Brexit vote, the composition of the EU itself.
The only open question in both places is how much damage Israel will need to inflict to obtain new cease-fires.
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