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So it spells those out in very clean terms, and that works.
It was people who came with spells and rituals.
Fortunately in 2006, Congress passed the Pet Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act (Laughter) — it spells "PETS" — to change that.
The idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability, among young people in the United States and now the whole world today.
So I've joined a growing band of people that try to make molecular spells using DNA.
There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA.
It's their knowledge that spells the difference between survival and death for their whole society in a time of crisis caused by rare events for which only the oldest people alive have had experience.
Her injury caused her to experience sleeping spells, which we know of today as narcolepsy, for the rest of her life.
Minty’s owner tried to sell her, but there were no buyers for an enslaved person who fell into sleeping spells.
But in one of her sleeping spells, Harriet dreamed that she could fly like a bird.
The music industry spells it "mic" because that's how it's spelled on the equipment.
Sleep loss will leak down into every nook and cranny of your physiology, even tampering with the very DNA nucleic alphabet that spells out your daily health narrative.
To prevent any outside meddling, the games are to be conducted in absolute secret except for a group of wizards who will make sure nobody uses enchantments, hexes, or spells to cheat.
Norse poetry tells of runic spells, cast to ensure calm seas, safe childbirth and triumphant battles.
But the exact nature of these spells isn’t fully understood— many of the inscriptions on swords, axes, and spears are indecipherable.
If a computer speech recognition system is able to recognize what you're saying, then it spells it out.
Now, I prefer that term over magician, because if I were a magician, that would mean that I use spells and incantations and weird gestures in order to accomplish real magic.
Well, interestingly, and based on my work and others in Africa, for example, we've shown that even the most vulnerable small-scale rainfall farming systems, with innovations and supplementary irrigation to bridge dry spells and droughts, sustainable sanitation systems to close the loop on nutrients from toilets back to farmers' fields, and innovations in tillage systems, we can triple, quadruple, yield levels on current land.
The movie starts in Mexico where a girl has been cursed, she spits on snakes thru green jello and her friend tries all these crazy spells to lift the curse.
We witness occasional spells of good acting, however, this is quickly deflated by some quite cheesy lines.
The handwritten text turns out to contain archaic spells designed to summon demonic forces.
When "Madame" decides to let her cats inherit her it spells trouble.
One of the crew finds an old book of spells and it looks like it would be perfect to use in some of the ritual scenes in their movie.
It is reasoned that the spells in the book are better written than the script they are using.
"Vigilante" is badly directed, with a simple-minded script that spells everything out for you and is predictable at every turn, and also mediocre performances by all the actors.
The over-eager hopefuls are filled with promise and heartache, but their personal stories of angst are a little embarrassing; this, matched with Attenborough's sluggish pacing, spells disaster, and even the now-famous songs fail to break through the artificial wrapping.
Pumpkin Jack (the old guy from down the street) brings the college co-eds a book full of witch's spells that he leaves at their annual haunted house (where the movie takes place).
I'd elaborate, but bmacv's comment spells it out quite well.
Alison's mental health and physical well-being soon start to deteriorate and she is plagued by splitting headaches and fainting spells.
There was also a lot of stop-animation used with the spells (ie, people turning into rabbits), which may be a little dated and silly now.
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