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At the same time, we need to think locally, which is the joy and marvel of Sylvia's hope spot wish, is that we can shine a spotlight on many of these previously unknown areas, and to bring people to the table, if you will, to actually make them feel part of this community that truly has a stake in their future management.
Perhaps the most fundamental way in which the third side can help is to remind the parties of what's really at stake.
Whether we're Christians, Muslims or Jews, religious or non-religious, we feel we have a personal stake in it.
When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
I have been basically spending the last few years documenting the efforts of some extremely intrepid men and women who are putting, literally at times, their lives at stake working in some very remote and very hostile places so that they may gather the faintest signals from the cosmos in order for us to understand this universe.
Too many lives are at stake.
What you need to do is to put a stake in the ground.
I would like to close here by putting a stake in the sand at TED.
This is followed by a text panel, it's designed in scroll form, in which I construct the narrative at stake.
People wouldn't come back because they didn't have any stake in it.
You all have a stake in a strong, vibrant media.
There's hundreds of billions of your aid dollars at stake, tens of millions of lives, or deaths, at stake, and, I'd argue, the security and future of you and your family is also at stake.
That's the Russians planting a flag on the ocean bottom to stake a claim for minerals under the receding Arctic sea ice.
There were numerous ingenious forms of sadistic capital punishment: burning at the stake, disemboweling, breaking on the wheel, being pulled apart by horses and so on.
We don't consider that a couple of hundred years ago, they may have been burned at the stake for criticizing the king after a trial that lasted 10 minutes, and indeed, that that would have been repeated over and over again.
Well, because there's a lot at stake.
They literally lined up the settlers along an imaginary line, and they fired off a gun, and the settlers roared across the countryside and put down a stake, and wherever they put down that stake, that was their new home.
But what's really at stake here is one of their most powerful tools of control: sex wrapped up in religion.
SP: Are you saying that people needed a step-by-step argument to grasp why something might be a wee bit wrong with burning heretics at the stake?
Your revelations kind of drove a stake through the heart of that rather optimistic view, but you still believe there's a way of doing something about that.
You put your life at stake for the cause of truth, for the cause of peace, and for the cause of education, and your daughter in inspired from you and she joined you.
Now, I'm not saying that any of these risks are particularly likely, but when there's so much at stake, even small probabilities matter a great deal.
But in the brain, the consequences of falling behind may be much greater than the embarrassment of dirty countertops, because when it comes to cleaning the brain, it is the very health and function of the mind and the body that's at stake, which is why understanding these very basic housekeeping functions of the brain today may be critical for preventing and treating diseases of the mind tomorrow.
Shouldn't this be rebuilt by the people with the largest stake, the societies in exile, the refugees?
Human lives are at stake.
To illustrate what's at stake, let's start with the War Gods.
There was a lot at stake then, and there's a lot at stake now, and we won't solve our problems if we expect it to be solved by a few supermen or superwomen.
What's really at stake perhaps here is not the medicine itself but a metaphor.
What's at stake, as I said before, is not killing something, but growing something.
That's what's at stake.
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