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Now let me be clear that I support an effective struggle against fundamentalism, but also a struggle that must itself respect international law, so nothing I am saying should be taken as a justification for refusals to democratize, and here I send out a shout-out of support to the pro-democracy movement in Algeria today, Barakat.
Nor should anything I say be taken as a justification of violations of human rights, like the mass death sentences handed out in Egypt earlier this week.
Carrying her schoolbag, Amel was taken off the bus and killed in the street.
1976, Air France was hijacked, taken to Entebbe, and the Israelis not only did an extraordinary rescue, they did it partly because they had practiced on a physical model of the airport, because they had built the airport, so they built a model in the desert, and when they arrived at Entebbe, they knew where to go because they had actually been there.
The beautiful Blue Marble image, taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972 had helped humanity become aware that we're on a fragile planet.
Rather, they're taken as primitive, and you build up the world from there.
A really exciting thing is in recent years a neuroscientist, Giulio Tononi, has taken this kind of theory and developed it rigorously with a mathematical theory.
She has taken a course in a business school, and she has become a veterinary doctor.
What had taken us well over 100 years took the slime mold just over a day.
For instance, the central jail for political prisoners, which was established by the Russians, was taken over by the Stasi and used until the end of Communism.
And two years after this photo was taken, she passed away, and I attended her wake, and nothing could have prepared me for what I saw there, because next to her casket was this painting, and her husband told me it meant so much to her that I had acknowledged her hard work, I had validated what she did.
So after they were taken away, the sanctuary staff worried that he would fall into a depression, and so to avoid that, they gave him another rabbit friend.
SeaWorld gives mother orcas antianxiety medications when their calves are taken away.
This photo was taken just before they left from Italy to immigrate to the United States, just about a century ago.
And then one day, it happened: he and his family were arrested and they were taken to a death house on the Danube.
This satellite image was taken one month ago — that's Manaus down there, we're down there — and it shows this process.
Mark had lost his sight when he was 22, and the man that I met eight years later was rebuilding his identity, the cornerstone of which was this incredible spirit that had taken him to the Gobi Desert, where he ran six marathons in seven days.
She was a vice president in a Fortune 50 company, and she said to me with a sense of deep frustration, "I've worked really hard to improve my confidence and my assertiveness and develop a great brand, I get terrific performance evals from my boss, my 360s in the organization let me know that my teams love working for me, I've taken every management course that I can here, I am working with a terrific mentor, and yet I've been passed over twice for advancement opportunities, even when my manager knows that I'm committed to moving up and even interested in an international assignment.
Now, the second reason relates to Tonya's comments about having had excellent performance evals, great feedback from her teams, and having taken every management training program she can lay her hands on.
Pictures were taken every day: day one, day two ...
I was so taken by the graciousness of his message that I invited him to come and meet me.
Not a single person has taken me up on that offer.
And whether it's about climate change or eradicating poverty or giving back to future generations what we've taken for granted, it's about adventure.
It was taken a couple of years ago by my friend David Gill.
In premodern Italy, failed business owners, who had outstanding debts, were taken totally naked to the public square where they had to bang their butts against a special stone while a crowd jeered at them.
In the 17th century in France, failed business owners were taken to the center of the market, where the beginning of their bankruptcy was publicly announced.
They told me that I'm a traitor to my own profession, that I should be fired, have my medical license taken away, that I should go back to my own country.
In our initial trial, over 300 doctors have taken the total transparency pledge.
But the sickness of fear has taken over, and patients suffer the consequences.
So for the next two years, we just watched my son be taken away from me, little by little every day.
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