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And in terms of the line of poetry, why does the poet use the word hare rather than rabbit?

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

Some of the crackles and pops were lightning, but the eerie whistles and curiously melodious chirps had a rather more exotic origin.

And that's actually rather useful for forensics and so on.

So instead of having starch, which is the food of plants, it takes something rather similar to brown fat and burns it at such a rate that it's burning fat, metabolizing, about the rate of a small cat.

I had become a survivor of abuse rather than a victim.

Mass movements in Pakistan have been represented after the Arab uprisings mainly by organizations claiming for some form of theocracy, rather than for a democratic uprising.

But it is a place where the putting-in of the troops has increased the violence rather than decreased it.

Rather than preceding the insurgency, the Taliban followed the troop deployment, and as far as I'm concerned, the troop deployment caused their return.

Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

Rather, it's because I want something that has a specific history.

And what I've found is, rather than investing their money in food subsidies and other things, they invested in a school feeding program.

Shouldn't we think about manipulation, rather than elimination?

But if they really were intelligent, why would they use a stick to extract termites from the ground rather than a shovel?

Now we have to counter that, though, against the evidence we've heard that we might have had some rather distasteful genetic dalliances with the Neanderthals and the Denisovans.

In his new and visionary book, "New Self, New World," the writer Philip Shepherd says, "If you are divided from your body, you are also divided from the body of the world, which then appears to be other than you or separate from you, rather than the living continuum to which you belong."

And this peaks at Super Bowl Sunday when guys would rather be in a bar with strangers, watching a totally overdressed Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers, rather than Jennifer Lopez totally naked in the bedroom.

But what happens is, of course, it mutates over the next 80 years and it turns into something rather insidious.

Then, significantly more often, does a Neanderthal match the European rather than the African.

I'm going to use these two countries to make an economic argument for democracy, rather than against democracy.

The implication of that model is that democracy is a hindrance for economic growth, rather than a facilitator of economic growth.

And so when I make these things, it's really not so much about the object itself, but rather the negative space around the object.

And I will tell you there are stories like Bassam's all over the world, plus study after study after study that says, no, we are neither designed nor destined as human beings to hate, but rather taught to hate by the world around us.

And this is a girl explicitly saying on a TV dating show that she would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle.

So that inspired me to think about, well, what if I try to use this idea in order, not to detect random texts from texts with meaning, but rather detect the fact that there is meaning in the biomolecules that make up life.

Clarence: I would rather be able to play an instrument again than walk.

There's some rather bored-looking gentlemen and some slightly engaged-looking ladies who are picking up something off that.

Studies show that people who are overdetermined in their denial will resort to formal rather than informal language.

And if you ask someone honest what should happen to whomever did forge those checks, an honest person is much more likely to recommend strict rather than lenient punishment.

Japan is rather different though.

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