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My world is going to be one where truth is strengthened and falsehood is recognized and marginalized."
The grassroots has been strengthened through the social power of sharing and they are challenging the old models, the old analog models of control and command.
It's partly dependent on the environment that the animal or the human is in, and the synapses that are being used are strengthened, and synapses that aren't being used in that particular environment are pruned away.
It turns out that memory, like other muscles in the body, can be strengthened and enhanced.
And what seems to be going on is that, in the brain, those neural connections that are important, those synaptic connections that are important, are linked and strengthened, while those that are less important tend to fade away and be less important.
Due to gravity, those places attracted even more gas, which further strengthened the pull of gravity, which then drew more gas in, and so on.
Through this process, which can take over a year, the tensile strength of the new skin is improved, and blood vessels and other connections are strengthened.
By selling them, kings enriched their own realms, and strengthened them against neighboring enemies.
Quite a few years of life have strengthened my conviction that each and everyone's existence is deeply tied to that of others: life is not time merely passing by, life is about interactions.
I am strengthened by the words of Joseph Shabalala, founder of the South African choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
The strengthened wall is more rigid, restricting further growth.
Pairing innate values like this with on-the-job training and systems has strengthened our skill base.
And while a more recent study did show that reaction times and errors increase for some bilingual students in cross-language tests, it also showed that the effort and attention needed to switch between languages triggered more activity in, and potentially strengthened, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
The filmmakers of course neglect to tell us the back-story--why were the Soviets in Afghanistan?--but that omission pales in comparison to their failure to reveal that support for Islamicist extremists in Afghanistan in the name of rabid anti-communism ultimately strengthened the hand of anti-western forces and was a big contributing factor to the mess that we find ourselves in today (9/11, terrorist networks, a prolonged ground war in Afghanistan, etc.).
Strengthened by the fact that Gary Busey, as Holly, plays his own instruments, this movie is the biopic in its purest form.
But that actually strengthened the message, that the primary victims of the war were civilians, not the armed combatants, who were often much more murderers of civilians than soldiers.
It's almost as if the director, or the producer was making a film simply to have a bunch of friends appear on camera and was afraid to take out very poor scenes when their removal would have strengthened this film.
Starting in late 1933 and early 1934, the Hays Production Code was dramatically strengthened to eliminate nudity, extreme violence and decidedly adult far from movies.
However, after the Code was strengthened, perverts and the curious went looking for seedy material and found it in educational films that were really just excuses to show boobs and talk about sex and drugs.
This rather dark film noir with its uneasy comics (Roscoe Ates, Nana Bryant, and Billy House who even repeats his checkers trick from The Stranger) and desperate heroine (Mary Beth Hughes), is further strengthened by the forceful performance of Charles Russell who manages to make his rather ambivalent drifter somewhat sympathetic.
This movie successfully recreated the feel of the game, and because it kept exposition to a minimum of what you needed to know for this particular story and didn't borrow from or revise any of the original characters or settings, it supported and strengthened the franchise.
The original "Basket Case" is one of my top favorite 80s cult films ever - just a bizarre idea that is strengthened by a great grimy New York city look and "feel", as well as awesome gore - and "part 2", though it was made about 8 years after it's predecessor, picks up right after the "dramatic" plummet from the Hotel Broslin.
As America and Japan strengthened their alliance after 1960, peace talks withered.
Fortunately, we have some international institutions to address these issues, but they must be strengthened and perhaps new ones created.
Far from depreciating, the dollar strengthened.
Currencies that nose-dived in 1997/98 have strengthened substantially; markets that collapsed have turned up.
Every time the resolve of its government weakened, the currency collapsed; every time Indonesia returned to the IMF way, the currency strengthened.
In short, the drone strikes constitute a flawed policy that has only strengthened anti-US sentiment and the forces of extremism in Pakistan.
(Somewhat ironically, this has strengthened the position of Prime Minister, for which Rajapaksa is now vying.)
Ironically, the Chinese government has been strengthened without oppressing the growth and dynamism of the Chinese economy.
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