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One day, while my father was working on a file for us to obtain French nationality, I happened to see some documents that caught my attention.
And I found myself in the places where people are fighting every day to survive and can't even obtain a meal.
And I go to those shops, if there are any, or out to the fields to see what they can get, and they cannot obtain the nutrition.
I mean, why not utilize this technology, which massively broadens the boundaries of what's possible, accept that many of the things that happen in our world now go recorded, and we can obtain that information through social media?
So the only things I could manage to obtain was a kind of a compromise.
Smart materials are hard to obtain in small quantities.
How can you obtain the hard core evidence?
NIST would like to obtain more data on the passwords users actually choose, but system administrators are understandably reluctant to reveal password data to others."
Torture is defined as any act by which severe pain of suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by a person acting in an official capacity to obtain information or a confession, to punish, coerce or intimidate.
It was really hard to obtain, because it's not common practice to ask for a picture of your own cancer.
In striving for the heights of creative genius, we want to give thousands of people the motivation, the encouragement and the courage to obtain the high-level skills they need to help Africa.
These seemingly crude methods of search and retrieval are, in fact, so useful that they are applied in computer models to obtain optimal solutions from decentralized elements, working randomly and exchanging simple information.
We ended up with 20 highly committed plaintiffs: genetic counselors, geneticists who had received cease and desist letters, advocacy organizations, four major scientific organizations that collectively represented more than 150,000 scientists and medical professionals, and individual women who either couldn't afford Myriad's test, or who wanted to obtain a second opinion but could not, as a result of the patents.
On the game show, you were thinking about each item's exchange value, what you could obtain for them at a later time, but in an emergency, like the desert scenario, what matters far more is their use value, how helpful they are in your current situation.
So to me it always seemed obvious that in order to achieve this dream, we would need to sequence a diverse cohort of people to obtain the full spectrum of human genetic variation on the planet.
All that the consumer would need to do is obtain a mobile code, take it to the nearest shipping place to be packed and shipped, and off it goes from one buyer to the next, not the landfill.
And that is how we obtain understanding.
But in April last year, I was able to obtain this video.
It felt like I was asking them to infect me with smallpox instead of, I don't know, obtain birth control.
Working to help the villagers obtain fresh water from wells.
He helped them obtain medical services and IDs.
It looked really great, the light worked on it really well, it was better than anything that I could achieve or obtain out in the world.
And today we can obtain cells from most every organ in your body, except for several which we still need stem cells for, like heart, liver, nerve and pancreas.
She is one of five million people in Kenya who faces a discriminatory vetting process when trying to obtain a national ID card.
Other women are forced through degrading virginity checks, simply to obtain a job, to save their reputation or to get married.
And we're zooming in by a factor of 100,000 times to obtain the resolution, so that we can see the branches of neurons all at the same time.
In this film, there is a loose plot of a man (Bardem) who wishes to obtain financing for his construction business, and marries a woman he does not love (the wide-eyed Maria de Medieros) in the process.
What makes this even more difficult is that Cvetic is actually an FBI agent posing as a Communist in order to obtain information about party activities.
Maybe the author was trying to obtain something slow-paced like Alien, but instead of being haunting, this movie turned out just boring.
Director and co-writer Alejandro Amenabar didn't make things easy for viewers of his taut, a bit overlong but very disturbing story, accurately based on a Spanish man's struggle to obtain assisted suicide.
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