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I mean literally every table, every chair in this apartment had yielded its original function to now serve as a surface for swaying stacks of books.
Maybe this particular trial yielded exciting results.
Now, I would no more recommend you have an affair than I would recommend you have cancer, and yet we know that people who have been ill often talk about how their illness has yielded them a new perspective.
Now, quite apart from the debate on whether or not we should be paying people to do what we think they should do anyway, the fact of the matter is that pay for performance has actually yielded some positive results in places like Mexico, in Brazil and also in pilot programs in New York.
I had prayed their prayers, I had yielded not to temptation as best I could.
And that really yielded some of the most passionate parts of what we share with you here today.
It yielded a treasure trove of data that’s helped pin down the speed of gravity, bolster important theories in astrophysics, and provide evidence for the origin of heavy elements like gold and platinum.
During harvest time, the plot of land without Tassa technique yielded 11 kilograms of millet per hectare.
The plot of land with Tassa technique yielded 553 kilograms of millet per hectare.
For days, I sat and looked at his hands, the ones that yielded the knife, and against his pasty white skin, his eyes ... Well, he spent endless days in his cell, no sunlight, so his eyes were as black as his hair and his mustache.
But analyzing the test-taker’s overall approach yielded real insights into their psychology.
Even with this constraint, his exhaustive investigations yielded some remarkably accurate conclusions.
There were enormous differences between kids who resisted and kids who yielded, in many ways.
Dividing someone’s score by their age and multiplying the result by 100 yielded the intelligence quotient, or IQ.
And the fact that this culture has yielded these numbers suggests strongly they have something to teach us.
This is a culture that has yielded Ellsworth Whareham.
Such small differences in the way we administered the activity yielded striking differences in how well they performed.
The girl refused to listen to reason and logic and used her passive/aggressive nature to control and impose her will on the guy who ultimately yielded his power and control over the relationship to her.
The Shining was the other movie - understandably, that film has an experienced director, cast, crew and a budget that yielded what it sowed: a horror masterpiece.
The '80s yielded a number of movies about kids going on adventures, but "Explorers" was something else.
America’s previous efforts at regime change in the Middle East yielded horrendous results for the US and Europe (to say nothing of the disasters that befell the countries caught up in the US-provoked mayhem).
This approach has, it must be said, yielded the occasional breakthrough – sometimes good, sometimes bad.
But Abe’s courtship has so far yielded little for Japan, and much for Russia.
Complicating matters further, there are significant omissions, because the Modi government yielded to the states’ demands to retain some taxation powers on high-yielding sources of revenue.
We yielded to short-term incentives, and everything seemed to conspire to push us to accepting excessive risks.
The last three decades have yielded a cadre of women leaders even where women otherwise lag far behind in terms of opportunity – for example, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Ukraine’s two-time former prime minister, Yuliya Tymoshenko, and Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Joyce Banda of Malawi.
In her determination to form a government, Merkel yielded to the SPD on important issues, including EU policy and labor-market matters.
He made the right choice before the Iraq war - America's intervention was never justified and has yielded a terrible failure - and so found himself in sync with an emerging European, even global, opposition to the Bush administration.
Interest payments on the debt eventually become so burdensome that bondholders demand higher interest payments (Greek debt recently yielded over 30%).
While it helped stop the slide into another Great Depression, successive injections of money have yielded diminishing returns.
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