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I then tried an experiment, and the experiment happened in Ethiopia.
And we tried to explain to them that maybe you should remember the PIN number; we will help you to remember the PIN number.
Have you ever tried to guess someone else's password so many times that it locked their account?
My research team and I have tried to understand where this fear of math comes from, and we've actually peered inside the brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, of people who are worried about math.
The officers also tried to create a personal bond between themselves and the informant, and to be honest, the example of the Stasi shows that it's not so difficult to win someone in order to betray others.
He didn't want to wait until somebody tried to act against the regime.
That's why not many East Germans tried to fight against the Communist regime.
Third, when we expanded our facility, we tried a new type of design.
We tried for some years selling insurance directly to farmers, with very high marketing cost and very limited success.
They want to talk to you about what sorts of therapies, largely behavior therapies, you've tried with that animal.
So after a lot of thought, I recorded a video blog in response, and I told Michaela, well, there are different sides to India, and I also tried to explain that things would be okay and I expressed my regret for what she had faced.
The Hubble Space Telescope: for the last 25 years it's been producing some of the most detailed views of our distant universe, but if you tried to use the Hubble to create an image of the sky, it would take 13 million individual images, about 120 years to do this just once.
They tried to make a toddler's gas mask in such a way that the toddler can be held by the parent because proximity of the body is so important.
I tried it and gained 10 pounds in the wrong places.
She says that there is only a limited number of ways you can screw — well, she says it in another way — and she has tried them all.
He was still the big man, and I tried to match his step.
But what if we tried?
When she came to our clinic, though, we tried a different approach.
What was it about this different approach we tried that led to better care, fewer visits to the E.R., better health?
Scholars have tried to explain: Why is it blue?
We changed the nature of the problem from one in which we tried to overtly and explicitly explain to the computer how to drive to one in which we say, "Here's a lot of data around the vehicle.
Minty’s owner tried to sell her, but there were no buyers for an enslaved person who fell into sleeping spells.
As I tried to process what he was saying, I was thinking, "What the hell is wrong with you?" (Laughter) "We can't do this now."
I burst into uncontrollable tears and tried to hide it, but he knew.
What Jack Nicholson might be up to in his celebrity life, and the fact that he tried to ... he had a bit of road rage and golf-clubbed a driver the other day.
For example, I might ask them to do an intellectual risk and try to tackle a problem they haven't tried before; or a social risk, talking to someone sitting next to them on the train; or an emotional risk, maybe telling someone they really care about how they feel.
He tried not to ever have his personal life subject to examination, and so I think calling him Snowden is a way of just identifying him as this important historical actor rather than trying to personalize him in a way that might distract attention from the substance.
They tried every drug, every other treatment they could think of.
So allow me to share three cases where we tried to apply design's power of synthesis.
Look at Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, England, where people who have been addicted to heroin for many years and repeatedly tried to quit and failed can get pharmaceutical heroin and helping services in medical clinics, and the results are in: Illegal drug abuse and disease and overdoses and crime and arrests all go down, health and well-being improve, taxpayers benefit, and many drug users even put their addictions behind them.
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