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a worldwide leader in electronics products, says that we compete against market transitions ( ' , 过渡), not competitors.

While excessive optimism can promote bad investment patterns, resulting in a real-estate bubble, the report's writers downplay that potential outcome in that it has not yet occurred.

There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world, says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.

The report's writers state that America's failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not only the health of the real-estate market, but also our ability to remain globally competitive.

Such drastic change is not easy.

Some scholars think teamwork may not always be reliable, despite its potential to work wonders.

Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.

Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.

Not everyone with a tendency to fantasise will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests that something must have caused them to think so much about their past.

Not everyone with HSAM has experienced these benefits, however.

Most people do not have clear memories of past events.

Leigh Thompson of Kellogg School of Management in Illinois warns that, Teams are not always the answer—teams may provide insight, creativity and knowledge in a way that a person working independently cannot; but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decision-making.

It's not about that; it's about growth for me.

It should not cause any alarm in any way.

I'm not happy and I want to change and I'm done with this.

Fantasy proneness will not necessarily cause people to develop HSAM.

Environmental protection is not much of a concern when Britons buy toilet paper.

And I knew it was a negotiation scheme, so I was able to say to myself, ‘This is not real.

The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode.

Some passengers remain missing, the Costa Rican foreign ministry said, but did not specify how many.

She looked at the list of over 500 friends she had on Facebook and realized some of them were not really friends at all.

It is not the first time one of Google’s famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.

Hi, Susan! You’re looking very smart today! There is new data out today that confirms that many Americans are not good at math, and when it comes to everyday technology skills, we are dead last when compare to other developed countries.

You are not really going to be able to understand all of the dimensions of this plan.

You are not going to be able to control the dimensions of this plan.

Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

What government has not yet found is the political will to put that understanding into full practice with a sequence of smart schooling that provides the early foundation.

This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travelrelated technologies than older onesWhen it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.

There are also rules dealing with interpersonal relationships: Be a responsible human being and do not do evil things to others.

The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories.

The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.

Stop worrying about what you can not controlAs we begin to examine our life, Soupios says, we come to Rule No.

Soupios says that it is based on Plato's observation that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Some show up ready, but many do not at this critical time when young brains are developing rapidly.

So, Soupios explains, it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that are beyond our control.

Quality has not been the top concern of pre-K programs.

Pre-K achievements usually do not last long.

Not everyone wants a driverless car now—and no one can get one yet—but among those who are open to them, every age group is similarly engaged.

Not all your business partners are your soul mates.

Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend, Soupios says.

It will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

It is not the housing type, they found, that creates differences in residents' responses.

It is not always the case, though.

It is an interaction between the person and the place, not the sort of place in itself, that leads to better or worse experiences.

It does not seem to create a generational divide.

I mean, there are some cautious steps I can take, but ultimately I can not guarantee myself that.

I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.

I can not control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu, for example, he says.

I am not talking about the quality of care, let me hastily add.

For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much.

Do good to othersOther golden rules counsel us to master ourselves, to avoid excess and not to be a prosperous ( ' , 发迹的 ) fool.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

Anxiety and depression more often than not cut short one's life span.

And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in.

A new Peabody study of the Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K program reports that pre-K works, but the gains are not sustained through the third grade.

Verifone, the company that makes the store’s card reader would not confirm or deny that the plastic bag trick worked.

Parents and teachers will tell you not to worry when applying for a place at a university.

However, he points out that many countries have not done so.

But not many are able to integrate innovation into their business.

And following up on what you just mentioned, what would you recommend for students who do not live in an English-speaking country? And you know, they want to learn.

They thought that a person with talent or intelligence did not need to work hard to do well.

The team behind the article and video in question make no mention of the system, or whether or not it detected them.

The mastery-oriented children, on the other hand, think intelligence is not fixed and can be developed through education and hard work.

The key is to remember that there is not just one solution.

The concept of gamification is not entirely new, Werbach says.

That approach will eliminate most cord-cutting concerns—but what about their wireless equivalent, jamming? With the right device tuned to the right frequency, what's to stop a thief from jamming your setup and blocking that alert signal from ever reaching the base station?Jamming concerns are nothing new, and they're not unique to security systems.

Teaching is an art and a craft, talent and practice; it is not something that just anyone can be good at.

Teachers are not people who are great at and consumed by research and happen to appear in a classroom.

Sometimes this involves technology, but often it does not.

Some people do not take naturally to gamified work environments, Cornetti says.

Rewards do not have to be stuff, Cornetti says.

Research is converging ( ' , 汇聚) on the conclusion that great accomplishment and even genius is typically the result of years of passion and dedication and not something that flows naturally from a gift.

Reducing food intake is not that difficult if people go to McDonald's more.

People are not spending all the money they save on gas.

One of the main theoretical home-security concerns is whether or not a given system is vulnerable to being blocked from working altogether.

Oil prices may rise or fall but economic laws are not subject to change.

It is utterly confusing to me that people do not recognize this, despite the fact that pretty much anyone who has been a student can tell the difference between their best and worst teachers.

It did not work out as well as was expected.

It could not succeed without German cooperation.

In the workplace, feedback may not be so welcome to managers with a fixed mind-set.

In her experience, people in positions of power or people in finance or engineering do not tend to like the sound of the word.

If you have a sign in your yard declaring what setup you use, that'd point them in the right direction, though at that point, we're talking about a highly targeted, semi-sophisticated attack, and not the sort of forced-entry attack that makes up the majority of burglaries.

If we are designing for engineers, I'm not talking about a ‘game' at all, Cornetti says.

I realized these different types of students not only explain their failures differently, but they also hold different theories of intelligence.

However, he'll need to do so without tripping the anti-jamming system, the details of which he almost certainly does not have access to.

Good teaching and research are not exclusive, but they are also not automatic companions.

Gamification is not a miracle cure for all workplaces as it may have negative results.

Gamification is not a magic bullet, Werbach warns.

Gamification in employee training does not always need technology.

Gamification does not have to be digital.

But not all oil producers have big reserves.

But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains? Not necessarily, says economic researcher Sara Johnson.

Another group of helpless children who were simply rewarded for their success on easier problems did not improve their ability to solve hard math problems.

And a number of oil-producing countries are trimming their gasoline subsidies and raising taxes, so the net savings for global consumers is not as big as the oil price plunge might suggest.

And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence.

A gamification strategy that is not sufficiently thought through or well tailored to its players may engage people for a little while, but it will not motivate people in the long term.

We do not want taxpayer money.

This boosts the local economy considerably because tourists not only buy crafts, but they also use the restaurants and hotels and other services of the area.

He says there are not enough buyers willing to pay more for the purple tea.

But Mr.Kibara says he has not received a higher price for his purple tea crop.

deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.

We want to reach parents who are not plugged into the system, said Zaharopol.

Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.

They are not attracted to the rubbish dumps on their migration routes.

They are not as serious in its online stores.

The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design.

The meals are not particularly appetizing, or even safe.

The company had previously announced the planned closures, but had not said which locations would be affected.

Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource ( ' , 外包) management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.

Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.

Policymakers should not allow low energy prices to derail the clean energy transition.

Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.

Morgan said those findings—which included data from the system's 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities—were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam's proposal to privatize management of state buildings in an effort to save money.

Its designers were not high-end with supplementary lines.

It also adds the element of artistic creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as math people.

Interestingly, parents' attitudes toward education do not seem to reflect their own educational background as much as a belief in the importance of education for upward mobility.

In order to maximize global welfare, every country's carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely domestic damage from emissions, but also the damage to foreign countries.

Implicitly or explicitly, American fashion addressed a democracy, whereas traditional Paris-based fashion was prescriptive and imposed on women, willing or not.

If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.

If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.

Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.

Haslam has said colleges would be free to opt in or out of the outsourcing plan, which has not been finalized.

Greenhouse gas emissions, if not properly dealt with, will pose endless risks for mankind.

Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before.

Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as modern art would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America.

Children were not always raised so differently.

Children grow up learning the skills to succeed in their socioeconomic stratum（阶层） but not necessarily others.

But that's not the only uncertainty.

Although calls to share data often concentrate on the moral advantages of sharing, the practice is not purely altruistic ( ' , 利他的).

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.

It's not a chance you're going to have throughout your lifetime.

It concerns not only us sociologists, but also economists, politicians and business people.

If you think this does not apply to you, then here is a simple test to show you are wrong.

Wealth is not, of course, the only factor involved.

We, of course, need to pay attention to youngsters who are filled with discontent and hostility, but we should not allow these extreme cases to distort our view of most young people.

Today's teenagers admire their parents and welcome parental guidance about important matters such as career choice—though certainly not Mom and Dad's advice on matters of personal taste, such as music or fashion.

They are not clear which products are truly green.

The final legislation might throw a public plan into the competition, but thanks to the fierce opposition of the insurance industry and Republican critics, it might not save much money.

The figures available will not be completely accurate.

That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie ( ' , 环保主义者), but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.

So it is saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world? Not necessarily; In the industrialised countries, environmental problems are generally related to industrialisation and technological development, it continues.

Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%.

Of course, such growth may not persist in the long term—which is what Mr.

Not many young people eligible for voting are interested in local or national elections these days.

Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.

Many inner-city school teachers are not equal to their jobs.

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in defensive medicine by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.

It's simply not true that economic growth will surely make our world cleaner.

It's not just about education, but about poverty and justice.

It sold cleaning products that were not included in the official Greenlist.

It is not necessarily true that economic growth will make our world cleaner.

It is not easy to curb the rising medical costs in America.

It is also the reason why development agencies are not united in their view of environmental issues; while some, like the WRI, maintain that environmental progress needs to go hand-inhand with economic development, others argue that the priority is to build a thriving economy, and then use the wealth created to tackle environmental degradation.

Interactive television advertising has not achieved the anticipated results.

Interactive ads and viewers might not go well together.

In theory, interactive advertising can engage viewers in a way that 30-second spots do not.

In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

If this is not happening today, we should ask why.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

Contrary to some stereotypes, most adolescents believe they must be tolerant of differences among individuals ( ' , though they do not always find this easy in the cliquish ( ' , 拉帮结派的) environment of high school).

But finding hard evidence to support the thesis is not so easy.

As a result, the bills do not require, as they should, that the results of these studies be used to set payment rates in Medicare.

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word environment has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impossible.

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

They’re not really well-regulated unless they adhere to some industry standard.

But now Israeli researchers are reporting that even sleeping in the same room can have negative consequences: not for the child,but for the mother.

And that’s not really the way they’re used in this country.

Although he says the worst is over, Baily says the banking crisis is not.

A lot of times people are not really aware of the impact they have, or the fact that taking them in combination with other medications might put you at increased risk for something that you wouldn’t otherwise being countering or be at risk for.

This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.

They have to bear consequences they are not responsible for.

They do not often demonstrate risky behaviors as their peers.

They do not attract the media attention the high-risk group does.

There is not any one-hit wonder, and there will not be one for years to come, said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association ( ' , CTA).

Their behaviors do not tend towards mental problems.

Their behaviors do not constitute a warning signal.

The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

The market demand for electronic devices is now either declining or not growing as fast as before.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.

Teenagers' mental problems are often too conspicuous not to be observed.

Students do not merely benefit while at university; studies show- they go on to be healthier and happier than non-graduates, and also far more likely to vote.

Not to be outdone, India's futuristic new Bharathi base, built on stills ( ' , 桩子) using 134 interlocking shipping containers, resembles a spaceship.

Not only that, it supports a number of platforms: Apple's i OS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows phone.

Many top firms will not even look at applications from those who lack a 2.1

It's not only unsustainable for workers, but also for the companies that employ them.

It's not just the lectures and tutorials that are important.

It has little impact on their decision whether or not to quit smoking.

It did not escape notice that a lobbying firm set up by Lynton Crosby, David Cameron's election campaign director, had previously acted for Philip Morris International.

In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes ( ' , 基因组 ) of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim.

For instance, new technologies that are building upon existing technology have not found their footing well enough to appeal to a mass audience, because, in many cases, they need to work effectively with other devices to realize their full appeal.

Fitbit, for example, released its first smartwatch Monday, selling with a clear purpose – to improve your fitness – and promoting it as a tool, not a toy.

Essentially, I could not agree more with the authors, said Svante Pääbo, a biologist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.

Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

Companies are promoting their own standards, and the market has not had time to choose a winner yet as this is still very new.

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

But this third group was not only unexpected, it was so distinct and so large—nearly one third of our sample—that it became a key finding of the study.

A build-it-yourself solar still is one of the best ways to obtain drinking water in areas where the liquid is not readily available.

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.

A salesman who is not punctual may not make a sale if he arrives late for an appointment.

A school boy or girl is unpunctual because he or she does not have the necessary human virtue of self-discipline.

A seminar leader shared her success story —she had not only 125 pounds, but also raised $25, 000 for homeless children.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

A study shows the students who are engaged in after-school activities are happier than those who are not.

According to sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.

After all, "patty poem" gave me my love for poetry not because it was the poem that lifted my spirits, but because it was the one that hurt me the most.

After all, not everyone has realized that wildlife has thoughts, feelings, and most importantly, equal rights to survive.

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

Again, not a move, the next time, I had my camera ready to record what you see here, one of several dozen such pictures, so long as she had a slice to eat, she never bothered the one on her head.

Ah, there is a good shop not far from here.

Also I'm not going to ask you what words mean.

Also, sometimes pre-anger does not have to do with a lasting condition, but rather a temporary state before a triggering event has occurred.

Although the drills are used in deliberate practice might not be the most enjoyable, they might be the most relevant to improving performance.

Although this result may not surprise you, it leads to important practical advice.

Although we may not be aware of chemicals like pheromones consciously, we give and receive loads of information through smell in every interaction with other people.

An A-team may require A balance—not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.

And I could not understand the news on the television or movies or anything like this.

And it is not just robins that are being kept awake by artificial light.

And like more Americans, she's not alone.

And people have been warned not to go out of their homes — not if you walk on foot, at least — between 11 in the morning and 7 in the evening.

Another is that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded.

Art students making a good living with these statistics/data/analyses in mind, art students need not worry about their career and have an alternative plan.

As some psychologists put it, "It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children."

At the time, people did not have dishwashers in their homes.

Athens lost freedom forever, but freedom was not lost forever for the world.

Athens was not in the farthest background of his mind, but once man has a great and good idea, it is never completely lost.

Axani wrote in his post that he is not looking for anything in return and that the woman who uses the looking for ticket can choose to either travel with him or take the ticket and travel on her own.

Bach died in 1750, but it was not until the early 19th century that his musical gift was fully recognized.

Be sure to stay on topic and not offer irrelevant information.

Being unpunctual, we are not respectful of others ; we are interfering (扰乱) with another man's time.

Believe it or not, he or she is on your side and is eager to see you do well.

Betty Byrnes remembered when her mother did not have time to wash all the dishes before an inspection.

Boldness — a willingness to extend yourself to the extreme—is not one that can be acquired overnight.

Bookcrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the "real" and not the virtual (虚拟).

Breaking up firms like Google into five small ones would not stop remaking themselves: in time, one of them would become great again.

Bruce Peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.

But a transparent object doesn't absorb or scatter light, at least not very much, light can pass through it without bending or stopping.

But according to Anderson, the amount of time spent watching television is not related to reading ability.

But discovering freedom is not like discovering computers.

But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success.

But he did not know about brushes before a visitor told him he needed one.

But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

But I could not help thinking about that silly poem.

But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from the technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings.

But my life was not always so great.

But not all cities develop slowly over a long period of time.

But not of this quality, madam.

But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees.

But she expects using the chemical in some kind of industrial process-not simply "millions of worms thrown on top of the plastic".

But some suggestions for adapting are not.

But sometimes we're not aware how cheaply we can make this food ourselves.

But that is not what many people have in mind when thinking of driverless cars.

But the problem should not be dismissed out of hand, as it has been by some AI researchers.

But the traffic was not easy.

But the war was not over yet.

But unlike school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term resting.

But we do not open on Mondays.

By promising not to offend the receiver again.

By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.

Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers' bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.

Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

Chopsticks are not used everywhere in asia.

Climate change is a continuing process, so Norphel's ice reserves will not last forever.

Damaged but not defeated, he was still ahead of me.

Dawson did not have any of the natural conveniences of cities like London or Paris.

During the first week, do not think about distance, but run five minutes longer each day.

Each one felt responsible for the welfare of athens, not because it was forced on him from the outside, but because the city was his pride and his safety.

Each time the bowl of rice is pushed over the table edge, it falls in the ground---and, in the process, it belongs out important evidence about how physical objects interact: bowls of rice do not flood in mid-air, but require support to remain stable.

Every man wants his son to be somewhat of a clone, not in features but in footsteps.

Everyone has taken a not-so-great class at one time or another.

Everyone knew I could not read.

Excuse yourself and let the person know you're busy so they can get the hint than when the door is closed, you're not to be disturbed.

Eyeing these headwinds, plastic-bag makers are hiring scientists like stein to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume.

For any individual, of course, the boundaries of these two classes are not stable.

For example, you may want to be a pilot but can't become one because your eyesight is not good enough.

For hill, it is impossible not to talk about China as the leading player when discussing fashion.

For many students, Wilson's help is not only appreciated, it's also entirely necessary for them to be able to complete their college education.

For the first time, I feel good about myself because I'm doing something, not because someone told me I was doing good.

For the machine, this quality is not in-born, nor is it something introduced by humans; it is a logical consequence of the simple fact that the machine cannot achieve its original purpose if it is dead.

Freddy was an average student, but not an average person.

Grandma's rose garden and Dad's vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that's not what's important.

Had the governments and scientists not worked together, aids-related deaths would not have fallen since their highest in 2005.

Hannah started to think about how she could help, but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.

Harvold, who has not passed his driving test, said, "I realized the bus was out of control when I was speaking to the students."

He added that Jason lost money because he would not tell a lie.

He always answered, "Son, if you want to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish", I remember being even more upset then because, "I'm not a fish!" I didn't know how to think like a fish.

He could not catch a fish.

He could not influence a fish as his father did.

He did not compromise easily, but was willing to accept any constructive advice for a worthy cause.

He is a shy man, but he is not afraid of anything or anyone.

He later informed me that I was "not athletic".

He lost sale of twenty papers because he would not tell a lie, but got a well-paid job because he told the truth.

He might not have done this particularly well, because the teacher told gabriel that he had a good ear and suggested that gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there appealed to him.

He said the chickens had never missed a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped laying eggs.

He thought of his bird with no seeds and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was determined that he would not tell a lie.

He was shocked, it was like he did not think anyone would ever know what he had done.

While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.

It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; but this effect is not a part of its original motive.

In the former case the education is incidental; it is natural and important, but it is not the express reason of the association.

We should not forget , however, that most New Englanders were less well educated.

To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church-important subjects that we may not neglect.

Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.

This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance.

Not long ago, with the country entering a recession and Japan at its pre-bubble peak.

Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

In addition, the computer programs a company uses to estimate relationships may be patented and not subject to peer review or outside evaluation.

Boas felt that the culture of any society must be understood as the result of a unique history and not as one of many cultures belonging to a broader evolutionary stage or type of culture.

“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

Will such variations bring about a change in the overall structure of the food and drink market? Definitely not.

Today they argue that market prices overstate losses, because they largely reflect the temporary illiquidity of markets, not the likely extent of bad debts.

They found that the principal requirement for what is called “global cascades” -the widespread propagation of influence through networks -is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.

These rules say they must value some assets at the price a third party would pay, not the price managers and regulators would like them to fetch.

Their rules, moan the banks, have forced them to report enormous losses, and it’s just not fair.

The truth will not be known for years.

The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes it reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.

And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.

America’s new plan to buy up toxic assets will not work unless banks mark assets to levels which buyers find attractive.

Part of the fame of Allen‘s book is its contention that “Circumstances do not make a person， they reveal him.

However， Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind， and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone， in reality we are continually faced with a question： “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that？ ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire， Allen concluded ： “ We do not attract what we want， but what we are.

Allen‘s contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts-and reveal its erroneous nature.

Yet quite how that happens, Mr.Menand does not say.

To be sure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it is not necessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interesting orchestral music.

So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

So disciplines acquire a monopoly not just over the production of knowledge, but also over the production of the producers of knowledge.

Says Korn/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey:”I can’t think of a single search I’ve done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.

Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969 a third of American professors did not possess one.

One possible response is for classical performers to program attractive new music that is not yet available on record.

Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.

Menand, is that “the knowledge and skills needed for a particular specialisation are transmissible but not transferable.

It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

In such a case, the company’s response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful, and the learning curve has been steep.

For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.

But what will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding the orchestra’s repertoire will not be enough.

Neither of these patterns is borne out by the analysis, suggesting that the structures of the languages are lire age-specific and not governed by universals.

The goal is new-search, not re-search.

Second, the majority of people who use networked computers to upload are not even aware of the significance of what they are doing.

Objective knowledge is the goal, not the starting point.

Not surprisingly, newly published discovery claims and credible discoveries that appear to be important and convincing will always be open to challenge and potential modification or refutation by future researchers.

Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day.

Join the Club is filled with too much irrelevant detail and not enough exploration of the social and biological factors that make peer pressure so powerful.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods - paintings, sculpture and architecture - and superfluous experiences - music, literature, religion and philosophy.

First, most people do not realise that there are strong commercial agendas at work to keep them in passive consumption mode.

But thinking what nobody else has thought and telling others what they have missed may not change their views.

Bankers’ fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

The gardens of the homeless which are in effect homeless gardens introduce from into an urban environment where it either didn’t exist or was not discernible as such.

Yet this enormous resource is not contributing enough to today's global challenges, including climate change, security, sustainable development and health.

Vanity is a constant; people will only start shopping more sustainably when they can’t afford not to.

To be sure, the future is not all rosy.

This year, it was proposed that the system be changed: Horizon 2020, a new program to be enacted in 2014, would not have such a category.

The victims of this revolution , of course ,are not limited to designers.

The problem is not necessarily the amount of available funding.

The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’s economic climate.

People will not get fewer ads.

It is not yet clear how advertisers will respond.

Getting a DNT signal does not oblige anyone to stop tracking, although some companies have promised to do so.

DNT does not seem an obviously huge selling point for windows 8-though the firm has compared some of its other products favourably with Google's on that count before.

But the intention is not to neglect social science; rather, the complete opposite.

It is not by chance that the Funeral March is not the last movement of the Eroica Symphony, but the second, so that suffering does not have the last word.

It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.

In musical expression, he did not feel restrained by the weight of convention.

He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behavior and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

For him, order does not result from forgetting or ignoring the disorders that plague our existence; order is a necessary development, an improvement that may lead to the Greek ideal of spiritual elevation.

“Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on,” he claimed.

You are now not wanted; you are now excluded from the work environment that offers purpose and structure in your life.

What’s not to like? Quite a lot, according to a handful of scientists quoted in the News Feature.

They do not fund peer-reviewed research.

The researchers mapped not only the city’s vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

Students who do not need the extra training could cut their debt mountain by a third.

Except in the District of Columbia, non-lawyers may not own any share of a law firm.

What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or “true” meaning that can be read off and clocked for accuracy, or some timeless relation of the text to the world.

This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while a warrant is pending.

The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity.

Princes and princesses have day-jobs and ride bicycles, not horses ( ' , or helicopters).

Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.

In today’s world, title has become normal that well—paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run perhaps we should not be so surprised.

In plays，novels and narrative poems, characters speak as constructs created by the author, not necessarily as mouthpieces for the author’s own thoughts.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.

In many cases, it would not be overly onerous for authorities to obtain a warrant to search through phone contents.

Conceived in this way, comprehension will not follow exactly the same track for each reader.

Charles ought to know that as English history shows, it is kings, not republicans, who are the monarchy’s worst enemies.

But they show comprehension to consist not just passive assimilation but of active engagement inference and problem-solving.

But the justices should not swallow California’s argument whole.

And also, the Middle East excepted, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world, with 10 kingdoms ( ' , not counting Vatican City and Andorra).

It allows us to have perspective on our lives - the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out.

We do not ruin urban conservation areas.

Under the law, using a fashion model that does not meet a government-defined index of body mass could result in a $85,000 fine and six months in prison.

This is not a free market but a biased one.

They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up impinging on health.

Their analysis ruled out the possibility that it was firms’ political influence, rather than their CSR stand, that accounted for the leniency: Companies that contributed more to political campaigns did not receive lower fines.

The issue is not the need for more houses but, as always，where to put them.

The bans, if fully enforced, would suggest to women ( ' , and many men) that they should not let others be arbiters of their beauty.

Researchers admit that their study does not answer the question of how much businesses ought to spend on CSR.

It’s not as expensive as you might think.

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