Major in sentence

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The problems in Africa, however, as we've been discussing for the whole of these first couple of days of TED, are major problems.

The indigenous people around the world, before they made a major decision, used to sit around and ask themselves, "How does this decision affect our people seven generations ahead?"

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called openness to experience.

What you saw after Katrina is a very good indicator of how little prepared the United States is for any kind of major attack.

And at the University of Chicago I was a zoology major, and thought I would end up, you know, if I was bright enough, maybe getting a Ph.D. from Cornell in ornithology.

So when we think of feminization, we should also think of how can we feminize the policies, and not only of our major countries, the wealthy countries like the United States, but all over the world, our domestic and foreign policy.

I went for a major that's meant for men.

He immediately introduced a bill outlawing discrimination on the grounds of sexuality and launched a major clean-up of the city.

For example, fish forms can be captured by coordinates and transformed to reveal major pathways of change and trends through time.

We're taking over now, doing work that ranges in scale from small-scale repairs to major renovations and major facility expansions.

It is the major difference between birds and any other animals we have on earth, and if you can't make a feather, you cannot call yourself a bird.

Our homeless population falls into three major categories: those that are temporarily homeless, about 75 percent; those that are episodically homeless, about 10 percent; and those that are chronically homeless, about 15 percent.

When I began this process, and we began this process, I realized that I had a limited understanding of homelessness and the factors that impacted it, and that I needed a fairly major change in my belief, in my thinking, because I had been raised with the theory of rugged individualism and "pull yourself up by the bootstraps."

They’d achieved no major victories since 1896, when Utah and Idaho enfranchised women.

But there were also plenty of places in the world where societies have been developing for thousands of years without any sign of a major collapse, such as Japan, Java, Tonga and Tikopea.

Perhaps the most subtle of them is that it turns out that a major input of nutrients which protects island environments in the Pacific is from the fallout of continental dust from central Asia.

And the Solomon Islands are only one year away from losing their loggable forest, which is their major export.

Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making.

And when she went to complain to a major, he said, "What?

So if you look at most of the major free software projects, they have one single person in charge who everyone agrees is the benevolent dictator.

Scientists believe that carnivory in plants evolved separately at least six times on our planet, suggesting that this flesh-munching adaptation holds a major benefit for plants.

Another major revolution: the communications revolution.

There are four major conferences on building blood cell-sized devices; there are many experiments in animals.

There’s another major contributor: the muscle’s ability to respond to signals from the brain.

Most major cities operate networks of air-quality monitoring stations like this one in London, to decide when to cut traffic or when to shut down factories.

I take you are preparing a major attack?

There are fundamental, major breakthroughs, and there are incremental refinements of those breakthroughs.

But I saw the lack of a way to fix point mutations, which cause most human genetic diseases, as a major problem standing in the way.

Remarkably, in every major region of the world, people who gave money to charity were happier than those who did not, even after taking into account their own personal financial situation.

It's over 200 miles from any major city.

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