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This persecution has had a long history going back to the late 1800s, and the rule of King Abdur Rahman.
Earth and Mars kept throwing rocks at each other for a very long time.
It shows the remnants of a delta, and this picture tells us something: water was abundant and stayed founting at the surface for a very long time.
Life chemistry takes a long time to actually happen.
We know that complicated mechanisms take a long time to evolve.
She never really was able to hold down a job for very long.
In the long run, that's bad news, so researchers are working on finding alternatives to control these mites.
And we've got a really long way to go, there's a lot left to learn, but one thing I know is that with creativity and commitment, you can create beauty and comfort and safety and even luxury out of a material that will grow back.
Now, at that time, there was very little known about or spoken about truly animal rights, about the idea of having legal personhood or legal rights for a nonhuman animal, and I knew it was going to take a long time.
It takes a long time to learn how to do that, and they excavated the area and they found that this material culture, this way of doing it, these rocks, had passed down for at least 4,300 years through 225 chimpanzee generations.
It took a long time, but eventually some of them began to write to their mothers, their friends, their girlfriends.
I wanted to be your long distance carrier.
And I was doing funerals, but not of the venerated matriarchs and patriarchs who'd lived a long life and there's a lot to say.
Now, I've been making pictures for quite a long time, and normally speaking, a picture like this, for me, should be straightforward.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, he said, "We have to do a TED Talk."
All right, it's nice that babies will generalize properties of blue balls to yellow balls, and it's impressive that babies can learn from imitating us, but we've known those things about babies for a very long time.
We're a ways away from improving people: our goal is just to make sure that we have a chance to survive long enough to maybe do that.
In the years after 9/11, some of the choices, some of the policies we've implemented have probably made us less, not more secure in the long term.
Sustainable, civilian-centered security needs to look at what happens in the long term.
This will not make us safer in the long term.
To get it right, to get security right, we need to focus on the long term.
This is the decision to change a system that is broken, and that we have unwittingly but willingly allowed ourselves to profit from and benefit from for too long.
For Zunis, every year, priests ritually carve new War Gods, the Ahayu:da, breathing life into them in a long ceremony.
We have a very long way to go, a very long way to go, but we now approach every obstacle with a "So What.
Physicists have told us for a long time that the metal of that train looks solid but really it's mostly empty space with microscopic particles zipping around.
Yeah, I told you, you can put those wires anywhere you want to as long as it don't get in the way.
And the Talmud saw this a long time ago, saying, "We see things not as they are, but as we are."
If we do more in a kind of a stupid way, the simplicity gets complex and, in fact, we can keep on doing it for a very long time.
Now she had them look at them and do this ... laborious, which I thought for a long time, until she explained to me was to slow them down so they'll think.
I wonder how long it will be before the trans suicide notes start to feel redundant, before we realize that our bodies become lessons about sin way before we learn how to love them.
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