Major in sentence

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It's very expensive for low-income households in developing countries to reach major centers of commerce.

Right now there are major expeditions being planned for next year that I'll talk a little bit about.

One of the major problems with patent law is that, in the case that when you are sued by a patent troll, the burden of proof that you did not infringe on the patent is actually on the defendant, which means you have to prove that you do not infringe on the patent they're suing you on.

Coffee is Uganda's major export.

And the basic chords were the ones we still have with us, the triads, either the major one, which we think is happy, or the minor one, which we perceive as sad.

And I had a major breakthrough, when I met the psychologist Albert Bandura.

But there's no major difference.

There's no major difference between these religions.

In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home.

In the 1920s, we thought there were major differences between people.

One of my board members is an editor at a major global media company, but she never thought about this as a career path, until she met female role models at JAWS.

The second kind of invisible innovation coming out of India is what we call outsourcing innovation to Indian companies, where many companies today are contracting Indian companies to do a major part of their product development work for their global products which are going to be sold to the entire world.

For example, in the pharma industry, a lot of the molecules are being developed, but you see a major part of that work is being sent to India.

But schizophrenia presents itself across a wide array of socioeconomic status, and there are people with the illness who are full-time professionals with major responsibilities.

So today I'm dressed in C major, so it's quite a happy chord.

In each of these major disasters — the tsunami in 2004, 250,000 dead, the Kashmiri earthquake in Pakistan, 2005, 85,000 dead, the Haitian earthquake, about 300,000 dead, more recently the awful earthquake-tsunami combination which struck Japan and its nuclear industry — in all of these instances, we see partnerships between international actors, interagency, private-public working with security forces to respond to this kind of natural disaster.

And this is a major issue.

Basically this was also a major outbreak, a culture of dissent, a culture of basically non-conformism, which was not known before.

I'm saying this because one of my major points is what went right is also what went wrong.

Now, businesses tend to complain about this, and their, they, I don't want to take away from their entire validity of complaining about it, but I did ask a major sneaker manufacturer earlier this year what they thought about piracy, and they told me, "Well, you can't quote me on this, because if you quote me on this, I have to kill you," but they use piracy as market research.

Foldit recently made a notable and major scientific discovery by deciphering the structure of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus.

A protease that had eluded determination for over 10 years was solved was by three players in a matter of days, perhaps the first major scientific advance to come from playing a video game.

The major emphasis of most approaches to big data focus on, "How do I store this data?

Terrorists are always adapting in minor and major ways to new circumstances, and despite what you might see on TV, these adaptations, and the detection of them, are fundamentally human.

I think that the current and future leaders of Africa have an incredible opportunity to drive a major renaissance on the continent.

I truly believe that stem cell research is going to allow our children to look at Alzheimer's and diabetes and other major diseases the way we view polio today, which is as a preventable disease.

I just moderated a major conference in London a few weeks ago called Sound Education, which brought together top acousticians, government people, teachers, and so forth.

And one of the side effects of having major massive blood loss is you get tunnel vision, so I remember being on the stretcher and having a little nickel-sized cone of vision, and I was moving my head around and we got to St. Vincent's, and we're racing down this hallway, and I see the lights going, and it's a peculiar effect of memories like that.

For example, take Dan Rounds, who is a music and math major from East Lansing, Michigan.

That is, we exploit the fact that the healthy partner, playing somebody with major depression, or playing somebody with autism spectrum disorder, or playing somebody with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, we use that as a kind of biosensor, and then we use computer programs to model that person, and it gives us a kind of assay of this.

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