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And this stands in sharp contrast to the experience of many students in school, where lecturers lecture, and students write things down and memorize them.
They said that they were going to fight not only to get their families out from behind those barbed-wire fences, but because they cherished the very ideal of what our government stands for, should stand for, and that was being abrogated by what was being done.
What Sapling's ownership means is that all of the proceeds of TED will go towards the causes that Sapling stands for.
I am addicted to adventure, and as a young boy, I would rather look outside the window at the birds in the trees and the sky than looking at that two-dimensional chalky blackboard where time stands still and even sometimes dies.
It's our fears and our lack of knowledge and imagination that stands in the way of real reform.
It has been surprising to see that when an entrepreneur stands on a stage and shares a story of failure, she can actually enjoy that experience.
Today, the death toll stands around 3,000, while hundreds of thousands have been displaced.
"I think that the artist should be returned to his heritage, i.e., the jungles of Africa, and then he can shovel manure in his artistic way." "This flag I'm standing on stands for everything oppressive in this system: the murder of the Indians and all the oppressed around the world, including my brother who was shot by a pig, who kicked over his body to 'make sure the nigger was dead.'
MANTRA stands for Movement and Action Network for Transformation of Rural Areas.
Here's the thing: the business case for diversity, as it stands today, doesn't really speak to any problem.
But be careful, because this one really stands a chance that in a hundred or so years, or even if it's in 1700 years, that someone proves it's the best possible shape for the job.
Ten minutes into the date, the man stands up and says, "I'm not interested," and walks out.
In science, we keep the whole database, and look to see if the number of hits somehow stands out from the total number you'd expect by chance.
So I call this the P.H. model of evolution, and I don't want to get too technical here, but P.H. stands for Potato Head, and I use this name to emphasize that all these sensors that we know and love, like our eyes and our ears and our fingertips, these are merely peripheral plug-and-play devices: You stick them in, and you're good to go.
What's more, it's poor kids that we're sending to prison, too many drawn from African-American and Latino communities so that prison now stands firmly between the young people trying to make it and the fulfillment of the American Dream.
Without these efforts, without taking these stands, our accomplishments are going to mean very little.
Alec and I saw him at the end of the evening, and he said he'd kissed a woman in line at one of the concession stands.
Synthorx stands for synthetic organism with an X added at the end because that's what you do with biotech companies.
But there's a gap between where that stands, and how I communicate it with the rest of the world.
But we really have to protect what Title IX stands for worldwide.
As it stands now, they’re speculative explorations of mathematical models.
CODIS stands for Combined DNA Index System.
CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.
If people are spying on us, it stands to reason that they have to listen to what we are saying.
However, the "D" in TED of course stands for design.
And this is how the building stands in Beijing today.
A slave stands by in case either of them needs to vomit.
Paleoclimatologists are also interested in where the sea level stands were at other times on earth.
But one institution stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy.
In fact, OCD, which stands for obsessive compulsive disorder, is a serious psychiatric condition that is frequently misunderstood by society and mental health professionals alike.
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