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These are the people who I served with, and these are the people who I honor.
Millions of people are served today from these devices.
He served 24 years for a crime he didn't commit.
Muslim Arab poets and scholars served in the royal court alongside Byzantine Greek sailors and architects.
No community is best served when only the elite have control.
Well, that chance encounter inspired my imagination, and I created the Lunch Lady graphic novel series, a series of comics about a lunch lady who uses her fish stick nunchucks to fight off evil cyborg substitutes, a school bus monster, and mutant mathletes, and the end of every book, they get the bad guy with their hairnet, and they proclaim, "Justice is served!" (Laughter) (Applause) And it's been amazing, because the series was so welcomed into the reading lives of children, and they sent me the most amazing letters and cards and artwork.
I joined the Israeli army just after the first intifada, the first Palestinian uprising, and I served in one of the hard-minded, toughest, aggressive infantry units, and I got the biggest gun in my platoon.
There, I found a stack of overdue credit card bills and a foreclosure notice served to him on the day that he died.
When they were interviewed after the study, all the participants said that they firmly believed that the learning and punishment study served a worthy scientific purpose which would have enduring gains for science, as opposed to the momentary, nonfatal discomfort caused to the participants.
First thing Monday morning, we took the car and went to a hospital in Buenos Aires Province, that served as a referral hospital for cases of the new influenza virus.
Mind you, this older gentlemen was serving a 33-and-a-third-to-life sentence in which he already had served 20 years of that sentence.
It served to recontextualize my experiences, and I then began to look at the world of humiliation and bullying around me and see something different.
What the computer doesn't see is that this is a special Italian cake that's only served during Easter time.
So inspired by that, I thought, let us set an example by inviting these people to eat food cooked and served by the untouchable community.
He insisted that the War God no longer served Zunis but museum visitors.
She served in Bosnia, and later helped the FBI to bust drug gangs in Pennsylvania.
And also for the men alongside whom they served.
The Army Ranger who trained them had served 12 deployments.
When I served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002, climate change wasn't at the front of my mind.
Customers may be better served by distributing services throughout a community, but this leaves businesses vulnerable to aggressive competition.
You live and die by the rule of first come, first served.
Feathers could have served these functions for dinosaurs too.
The family head off to the dining room and are served dinner.
And it started because a local franchise owner found that when he served his McDonald's on Friday, nobody came.
At the end of the day, epidemiological studies have served as excellent guides to public health, alerting us to critical health hazards, such as smoking, asbestos, lead, and many more.
For most of history, humans had no idea what purpose the heart served.
This structure of the pinhole camera with a lens served as the basis for what would eventually evolve into the human eye.
If that sounds familiar, it's because the historical conflicts known as the Wars of the Roses served as the basis for much of the drama in Game of Thrones.
They did it by focusing on the things that matter to their business, like wasting less energy and water in their manufacturing processes; like making sure the CEO contracts had the CEOs incentivized for the long-term results of the company and the communities they served, not just quarterly results; or building a first class culture that would have higher employee loyalty, retention and productivity.
Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants?
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