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And one of the things he said when we met with him is that he now has dedicated his life and his career to ensuring that nobody else is locked up unjustly.
Without capital, inequality is locked in.
And Len was wealthy enough to be able to afford a Park Avenue psychoanalyst, who for five years tried to find the sexual trauma that had somehow locked positive emotion inside of him.
Nor does anyone ever mention the greenhouse gases already locked in the system.
For more than 10 years, I and two million people back home have been living in darkness, locked between two borders that are nearly impossible to leave, literally, in an area that spans 25 miles long and about five miles wide.
When I wriggled free, I tried to open the door, but it was locked.
We turn up the volume on all the parts of the story that we expected to hear: a gun in the glove compartment, the locked doors, the isolated location.
We're still locked in a 17th-century paradigm of parochial national sovereignty.
Time magazine recently reported that "Extreme action sometimes has to be taken, and Wales locked the entries on Kerry and Bush for most of 2004."
But her other leg appears rooted to the spot, locked in the corner of the canvas even as she stretches to move it.
It's especially hard for the scientists to accept who still remember, you know, Galileo essentially locked up, and who are still fighting this battle against the church.
A monk, locked in his room, would write T-E-D with his pen.
Well, we locked up all the Japanese during World War II, including those that made fortune cookies.
Instead, the random arrangement of the atoms in the melted glass is locked in upon cooling.
I see large groups of women in tattered uniforms surrounded by huge walls and gates, enclosed by iron barbed wires, and I get hit by an awful stench, and I ask myself, how did I move from working in the respected financial banking sector, having worked so hard in school, to now being locked up in the largest correctional facility for women in Kenya?
Maybe what wants to be said is that old and the new are locked in a dialectical embrace, a kind of dance where each defines the other."
Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could find a way of keeping that CO2 locked up long-term, and thereby significantly contributing to solving the climate problem?
CA: So there's huge value potentially locked up in there that the world's ragpickers would, if they could, make a living from.
It's also where, at any one time, there's likely 800 immigrants locked in freezing, filthy, concrete cells below the building.
I loaded my camera, I locked my focus, and I placed my finger over the shutter release, as Shea and Zion went to take their first sip of clean water.
But stuff did feel like it could have been taken 30 or 40 years ago, like it was locked in the Cold War era and hadn't necessarily progressed.
But here's where the parable is so useful, because for weeks after her diagnosis, I felt gripped by despair, locked in the story that all of this was tragic.
Zynga has risen on the consumer's desire to not want to be locked in to fixed cost.
He was locked up in a cell, eight by seven, with 13 other grown-up men for 23 and a half hours a day.
If just three percent of the carbon locked up in the arctic permafrost is released as the world warms, it would offset all the savings that we need to make, in carbon, over the next 40 years to avoid runaway climate change.
They're locked in, because so many add-ons and other company stuff locks into the old 1982 chassis.
Of course if you want to go inside, the two doors are locked.
Those four are locked in a pinwheel; you can't get them apart.
So, I locked myself in a room, figured out the content, organized the document, and wrote it in plain English.
It was made in stars like that, locked away and then returned to the universe in explosions like that in order to recondense into planets, stars, new solar systems and, indeed, people like us.
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