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And sometimes they'll resort to what's known as the "burn and sniff" technique where they'll burn the plastic and smell the fumes to try to determine the type of plastic.
Studies show that people who are overdetermined in their denial will resort to formal rather than informal language.
It was our last resort.
We have to resort to experimental methods to answer this, and so what we can do is actually bring people into the lab and disgust them and compare them to a control group that hasn't been disgusted.
AAA: You see, undercover is always a last resort.
Well, of course, you then resort to alcohol.
Our brain weighs between 1.2 and 1.5 kilos, but elephant brains weigh between four and five kilos, and whale brains can weigh up to nine kilos, which is why scientists used to resort to saying that our brain must be special to explain our cognitive abilities.
Unable to make their own toxins, these females resort to drinking the blood of other fireflies to get these protective chemicals.
Detaining someone was used only as a last resort.
And our idea is to make this a professionalized pit-emptying service so that we can create a small business out of it, create profits and jobs, and the hope is that, as we are rethinking sanitation, we are extending the life of these pits so that we don't have to resort to quick solutions that don't really make sense.
We hailed a boat from a nearby resort, and then were quickly handed over to Indonesian water police.
The other very serious blight that causes this problem is the excessive resort to violence, and that is increasing tremendously around the world.
So the resort to violence and abuse of poor people and helpless people is another cause of the increase in abuse of women.
But anyway, those kinds of things, the resort to violence and the misinterpretation of the holy scriptures are what causes, are the basic causes, of abuse of women and girls.
The Arabs tried to starve the city into submission, but ran out of food themselves and had to resort to cannibalism.
They may resort to acronyms to shorten long names, choose generic terms over specific, or refer to slides and other visual aides.
Fortunately, doctors today don’t resort to power tools to cure headaches.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and it is my job, my responsibility, as an astronomer to remind people that alien hypotheses should always be a last resort.
Unless we plan to stay holed up underground for the duration of our stay on every new planet, we must find better ways of protecting ourselves without needing to resort to wearing a suit of armor that weighs something equal to your own body weight, or needing to hide behind a wall of lead.
I got invited to an exclusive resort to deliver a talk about the digital future to what I assumed would be a couple of hundred tech executives.
During early stages, we had to resort to using our own houses and own kitchens as our ink-making factories, and our own bedrooms and living rooms as the first assembly line for making these inks.
I was at a ski resort in Switzerland without any money to actually enjoy myself, because the snow had melted and I didn't have money to go to a movie.
But I think once it does, we will find solutions, and very quickly, you'll see those resort hotels in orbit.
As a last resort, people with withered cartilage can even undergo full joint replacements.
And what of the Constitution, That bully of last resort?
And he is credited with doing over 4,000 of these public surgeries, wandering around in Europe, which is an astonishing number, when you think that surgery must have been a last resort.
These machines aren’t used as a standard treatment, but rather, as a last resort.
And we have to duke it out every day, so we resort to politics.
After I left Bimini, I actually learned that this habitat was being bulldozed to create a new golf course and resort.
It's so queer that physicists resort to one or another paradoxical interpretation of it.
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