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And I quote: "The effect of denying the services of INSITE to the population that it serves and the correlative increase in the risk of death and disease to injection drug users is grossly disproportionate to any benefit that Canada might derive from presenting a uniform stance on the possession of narcotics."
We're always in this stance of being the object of somebody else's subjectivity.
It's so important that the very tools we use to understand ourselves, to understand the world around us, are shaped by that stance.
In an even more radical stance against consumerism, the company placed a "Don't Buy This Jacket" advertisement during the peak of shopping season.
My father was responsible for building roads in Bihar, and he had developed a firm stance against corruption, even though he was harassed and threatened.
Now essentially, this represented taking an aggressive stance towards my own mind, a kind of psychic civil war, and in turn this caused the number of voices to increase and grow progressively hostile and menacing.
I'm here to also tell you that there are lots of shifts occurring around what China is doing in the democratic stance.
If the West chooses to compete with the Chinese model, and in effect go around the world and continue to try and push an agenda of private capitalism and liberal democracy, this is basically going against headwinds, but it also would be a natural stance for the West to take because in many ways it is the antithesis of the Chinese model of de-prioritizing democracy, and state capitalism.
He had to restore his dignity, and he did so, and initially, although I was disappointed, I grew to admire that stance.
She didn't have to choose some P.C. stance on gayness over her heritage.
An "are you with us or against us?" stance takes root.
Stiff legs, long stance, These aren't Parkinsonian movements, Parkinson's patients take short, shuffling steps, and the posture's all wrong.
Patients who suffer degeneration from this region, something called spino-cerebellar ataxia, show a lack of coordination that results in stiff legs, wide stance, and a lumbering walk.
But that stance ignores a fundamental truth, which is that our procreation on a national scale is not optional.
Studies show that being immersed in water or just changing your stance can greatly reduce the effects of motion sickness.
And this is what mindfulness is all about: Seeing really clearly what we get when we get caught up in our behaviors, becoming disenchanted on a visceral level and from this disenchanted stance, naturally letting go.
And to the extent that we need to create economic growth over the long term, we're going to have to pursue it with a better form of economic stance.
Years after he proposed it, Jackson actually reversed his own stance on his thought experiment.
So I didn't speak out about the government's early stance on AIDS.
And these animals evolved a bulldog-like wide-gait stance, giving them immense stability, because when you're 65 tons, when you're literally as big as a house, the penalty for falling over is death.
With me, first of all, Gretchen Carlson, who has spent a decade working at Fox News, hosting "Fox and Friends" and then "The Real Story," before taking a courageous stance in filing sexual harassment claims against Roger Ailes, which eventually led to his departure from Fox News.
Spanish has a great word to describe the stance that journalists should take.
Contemporary philosopher Noel Carroll took this stance, arguing that an artist's intentions are relevant to their audience the same way a speaker's intentions are relevant to the person they’re engaging in conversation.
My stance on childbearing has always been first date conversation.
By delivering sermons, he developed his voice as a writer, but also grew conflicted about the Church’s stance on racial inequality and homosexuality.
Because, when you have a topic that you're interested in, or a movement that you want to be a part of, and you're taking a stance and saying what's true, good ideas don't avoid criticism.
Hence, we need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.
The challenge provides a shared experience, a common language, a common stance to build the right prototype.
Second of all, I'm going to recommend that you get into a proactive stance and write to your elected officials at least once a month.
This is an idea that we got from a fellow TEDster here, Dan Dennett, who talked about taking the intentional stance.
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