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Basically, what we do is we take a drop of blood out of a patient, and we sort out the proteins in the drop of blood according to how much they weigh, how slippery they are, and we arrange them in an image.
And if we can teach listening in our schools, we can take our listening off that slippery slope to that dangerous, scary world that I talked about, and move it to a place where everybody is consciously listening all the time, or at least capable of doing it.
Lighter and more slippery autos need less force to move them, so their engines get smaller.
It can get sideways like a rally car driver, always able to take the tightest curve, even on slippery, changing surfaces, never spinning out.
We still had 100 miles to go downhill on very slippery rock-hard blue ice.
From these drawings, we know that this creature, which lived about 100 million years ago, was very big, it had tall spines on its back, forming a magnificent sail, and it had long, slender jaws, a bit like a crocodile, with conical teeth, that may have been used to catch slippery prey, like fish.
Well, the first thing I learned is that cost is a really slippery concept.
This magnification of threats, this compounding of factors is what Jeremy Jackson describes as the "slippery slope to slime."
Design is a slippery and elusive phenomenon, which has meant different things at different times.
Now it felt too small and too slippery.
It was about 2,000 feet off the ground and consisted of the hardest physical moves on the whole route: long pulls between poor handholds with very small, slippery feet.
Now, if somebody challenges it, like they question us for a joke we tell, or maybe we say our workforce is homogenous, or a slippery business expense, we go into red-zone defensiveness a lot of the time.
With bounded ethicality, the human mind, the same human mind, is making decisions, and here, it's about who to hire next, or what joke to tell or that slippery business decision.
So what are the seven social processes that grease the slippery slope of evil?
Domestic workers know that any time a single person becomes disposable, it's a slippery slope.
And domestic workers know it's a slippery slope when we start to see a worker as less than a real worker, to a woman as less than a woman, to a mother as less than a mother, to a child as less than a child.
We just took this character that I just talked about, put it on a slippery surface, and this is what you get out of it.
The last few years have all seen the rise of innovations in how we measure and display aspects of the world that can be too big, or too intangible, or too slippery to grasp easily.
But this time what we did is we put a slippery patch that you see in yellow there.
And there's something I worry about especially, which is that this dynamic will lead to a kind of a feedback cycle that puts us on a slippery slope.
Who knew that bananas would have the exact right properties to stay solid even when pushed through a tube with forced air, yet slippery enough to have the dramatic oozing effect that we were looking for.
In fact, you're not even allowed to stand where this gentleman is standing, at the foaming, slippery waters at the threshold.
So we go down the slippery path of believing that some lives, just ain't worth living, and then we'll decide that as some people can't really decide for themselves then we'll bring in the state to decide for them.
What amazes me is how slippery and morally highly questionable McNicol is.
Melissa Sagemiller,Wes Bentley,Eliza Dushku and Casey Affleck play young students at Middleton College in the town of Middleton.The four teenagers form two love triangles.One night during an ominous full moon they drive and argue along a slippery and twisting mountain road.Not looking properly they careen into another car and one or more of them are killed.The ghostly nightmare begins...Pretty lousy and politically correct horror flick without gore and nudity.It's obviously influenced by "Carnival of Souls".The cinematography is decent,unfortunately there is zero suspense.4
After 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'Patriot Games,' we have certainly come to expect more from the Jack Ryan character than to be a fall-guy for a slippery Prez and his corrupt underlings, even if he belatedly turns the tables on them.
Slippery as an eel though the McCarthy era up until the end.
Dalton plays a criminal playboy mastermind who is slippery beyond belief and gives a hard-hitting, edgy performance in a demanding role... possibly his best ever.
Friedrich Hayek was wrong to argue that Keynesian social democracy is a slippery slope to serfdom.
The situation in Libya, we are told, is too dangerous;Germany’s government doesn’t want to get caught on a slippery slope and eventually have to commit ground troops in a civil war.
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