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The other cut down gradually over the course of two weeks.

Office managers knock down walls to encourage team building.

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.

It will experience ups and downs.

It helps slow down our aging process.

I was thinking, ‘OK, guys, if you want to try to shut me down, shut me down.

And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.

The scientists suggest this may be an attempt to calm humans down.

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.

may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

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

The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.

Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.

In spite of such temporary measures, soaring food prices and spreading hunger in many other countries are beginning to break down the social order.

In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to nail down long-term trade agreements that would lock up future grain supplies.

If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.

With wired setups, the fear is that a burglar ( ' , 入室盜賊) might be able to shut your system down simply by cutting the right cable.

In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.

I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic ( ' , 官僚的) mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.

Cutting down meetings and encouraging administrative staff to go to classrooms.

They work down the list, each task starts when the previous task is completed.

The little boy walked out of the school with his head and shoulders hanging down.

So we're eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down—or we do, but we hurry.

His face went down lower and lower, and then, with complete joy he called out, Dad.

But just before he reached the car door, he suddenly stopped, crouching ( ' , 蹲伏 ) down to peer at something on the sidewalk.

Once across, the ropes were tied down and wooden bridges were hung from them.

His mother, convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, lay down some rules.

Dr.Carson was headed down a path of self-destruction until a critical?moment in his youth.

A few months ago, I was down with a terrible cold which ended in a persistent bad cough.

And McDonald's wasn't alone in slowing down: Other chains also saw their drive-through performance slow down.

But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines.

But just before he reached the car door, he suddenly stopped, crouching (蹲伏) down to peer at something on the sidewalk.

But the code to access the program cost $120—a big sum for Harper, who had already put down $450 for textbooks, and had rent day approaching.

Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze.

his mother, convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, lay down some rules.

However, the cow then moved through one of the nets knocking down a police officer in the process.

I always feel down when I see others accomplishing things and I feel miserable about my own achievements.

I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.

I thought I'd like to be a policewoman but they turned me down, because I was too short.

In 2014 City Hall developed a plan to knock down the building and replace it with affordable housing.

In the mornings you can go down to a small local cafe, soaking up the sun's rays, and drinking coffee.

It will only slow you down and hinder your career goals.

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her studio down.

My notes may or may not be useful, but the point is that by writing down what Mr.Brown says, I can follow his line of thinking more easily.

No, I just jumped down and grabbed the baby.

On the other side are parents like Mike jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade,who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a "dumbing down,"of his children's education.

One of the most effective ways to concentrate is to write things down.

One of the sessions that moved me the most was state violence on black women and black girls, says Chasin, explaining that in one room, people wrote down the names of those killed because of it.

Police frequent the area day and night, as two months ago, a young man was shot just down the street.

So he lay down and fell asleep, but the tide swept in quickly at the beach.

So, I'll meet you down at the station around 6?

That is, if you put a post stamp on upside down, you will go to prison.

The biggest concern of pumping out water from this deep is the gradual settling down of the land surface.

The Dutch king has revealed that for more than two decades he has held down a part-time second job alongside his royal duties.

The fire department of New York says the vacant 100-year-old building being pulled down partially collapsed.

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35.

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age.

Unfortunately, there is little that can be down to relieve muscle soreness.

When the body realizes the muscles are hurt, the response is to increase blood flow to the area and increase body heat, damaged cells are then cleaned up and the body sends cells specially designed to break down the large muscle fiber fragments.

While sleeping, their body temperature drops, and their heart beat slows down.

with wired setups, the fear is that a burglar might be able to shut your system down simply by cutting the right cable.

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

Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is unadaptable and untrained.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

But overall, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

With sufficient will in Downing Street this would have been done already.

Rising more than 1,000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

We get distracted before we can turn down the heating.

Other initiatives fail to break down the data, too.

But it was the ones that mentioned the actions of neighbours that drove down power use.

"You've also got color, texture and shape sensors looking down at the ground to check pasture quality," says Salah Sukkarieh of the University of Sydney, who will carry out trials on several farms in central New South Wales.

A bathing machine was rolled down to the sea shore, so women would not be seen in swimwear.

And while the Portuguese took part in the trade, ferrying nuts down the coast along with other goods, by 1620, when English explorer Richard Jobson made his way up the Gambia, the nuts were still peculiar to his eyes.

Anything like numbers, names, places have to be noted down, but the rest is never translated word for word.

Apparently, we look down on acquaintances more so than friends.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented d

At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

Businesses have downsized or shut down across America, leaving fewer job opportunities for those in search of work.

Craigslist quickly overtook newspaper classified ads and turned newspaper economics upside down.

Each week, he would try something different to see if he could find a better, faster way down the mountain.

Extreme athletes expend lots of energy breaking down and repairing and building muscles.

For example, dolphins, as well as other marine animals, shut down one hemisphere of the brain when they go to sleep.

I'll write down exactly what I'm going to say and read it carefully.

In other experiments, Lupyan and Swignley found that uttering the name of a common product when on the hunt for it helped quicken someone's pace, but talking about uncommon items showed no advantage and slowed you down.

It doesn't mean that my to-do lists no longer exist, but I've become more aware of the importance of slowing down and making sure that I enjoy the daily activities as I carry them out.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

It was a spoken code, never written down and it was developed and used by Navajo Indians.

Remember how you feel when you are speeding down the highway and a big truck suddenly brakes twenty meters in front of you.

rising more than 1, 000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.

simply, it came about through good practice trickling down.

So it is not really your memory letting you down—just your ability to retrieve information from it.

Some plants store reserves of water to see them through a drought; others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.

The Internet is apparently taking down yet another industry.

The passengers often say that seeing animals makes them feel much better, and helps them to calm down before a flight.

They have purchased a home with a small down payment and a 30-year mortgage.

Turning every single word into the target language would put too much strain on the interpreter and slow down the whole process too much.

Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is "unadaptable and untrained. It cannot respond to the opportunities which industry may offer."

We have a cafe and library upstairs and a ticket office down the hall where you can buy tickets to all the major Jazz concerts in the city.

While the efforts are certainly not futile, the results of such bans will likely only start to be seen by generations down the line, bettering the world for the future.

Write down the names of all the American states you can remember.

You really need to narrow it down in order to make it more accessible.

After several weeks' successful work, I began to notice that egg production was going down.

After spotting a wallet on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

And unplanned human activities have proved the idea of top-down control by top predators to be true.

And while you're at it, actually sit down to eat.

As he got closer, he found another vehicle upside down on the road.

As they went down, the weather got worse.

Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help employ the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills.

Brown would like to see their daughter settled down, get married, and have kids.

But compared with previous studies, she finds the speed of breaking down in this one exciting.

But once I started, I simply couldn't put it down.

But Simon decided to risk his life and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope.

But unlike most collectors, Zac tracks down the medals' rightful owners, and returns them.

By painting buildings white, cities may slow down the warming process.

Dad sat me down and said, "Alice, I know it's hard, but it's all about persistence (堅持不懈)."

Each time you get a headache, write down the date, the time, and what you were doing and feeling before your headache started.

Elk, deer, and coyote populations are down, while beavers and red fores have made a comeback.

For each of those gardens, write down the strongest memory you have.

Ground water evaporates and collects on the sheet until small drops of water form, run down the material and fall off into the cup.

He advised him to slow down and take things easy.

He broke down as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.

His strange habit makes sense when you consider that he's an environmental scientist who studies how to reduce litter, including things that fall off garbage trucks as they drive down the road.

However, a similar study of British accents in the US turned these results upside down and placed some regional accents as the most attractive and BBC english as the least.

I don't have to write down what happened or what technique the author was using when he or she wrote this.

I got so angry with him for laying down the law.

I placed the chick in the nest, and it quickly calmed down.

I raced to the staircase and called out, "Sally! Come down immediately! "

I settled down in the darkness, and the curtains opened.

I was almost knocked down recently by a cyclist riding on the pavement when there was a cycle lane right next to him.

I was driving down to London when I suddenly found that I was on the wrong road.

I would scream, "I hate you!" Dad would yell back, "Good! I don't care!" Deep down I knew he did.

If you need some help slowing down, turning on relaxing music.

In this instance, step away from your keyboard to allow everyone to calm down.

It didn't look that bad, and after the first wave had shut down my ability to smell, it didn't offend the nose so much, either.

It had been possiblebut not easyto buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer's office to purchase a copy.

It slows down the loss of shade trees.

It was a hot summer day that found me running down the street with a dollar in my sweaty hand.

Jane moved aimlessly down the tree-lined street, not knowing where she was heading.

Jennifer Debruyn, a microbiologist at the university of tennessee, who was not involved in the study, says it is not surprising that such worms can break down polyethylene.

Keep track of your efforts and write down how you feel.

Larger transparent animals have the biggest challenge, because they have to make all the different tissues in their bodies slow down light exactly as much as water does.

Yes, but a few blocks down town would be much more expensive.

Natalie posted introduction about a boy named Patrick, who lost his baseball card collecting when his house burned down.

Next, cover the hole with the plastic sheet, securing the edges of the plastic with dirt and weighting the sheet's center down with a rock.

Oh my! My car broke down, and I have to meet my aunt at the railway station before noon.

One day, mentally exhausted, I wrote down all the reasons why this problem could not be solved.

Other European countries laid down a similar requirement for immigrants, and some terms are even tougher.

Parents who help their children with homework may actually be bringing down their school grades.

Researchers in spain and england recently found that the worms of the greater wax moth can break down polyethylene, which accounts for 40% of plastics.

See, your computer has broken down again! It doesn't make sense to buy the cheapest brand of computer just to save a few dollars.

She and Peter are coming down to see us this weekend.

She glanced down at me through her glasses, "you are no different from your classmates, young man.

She has turned down several invitations to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies after school she plans to take a year off to model full time before going to university to get a degree in engineering or architecture.

She hopes to inspire the jamaicans to lay down their weapons.

She says these activities at bedtime can get kids all excited and make it hard for them to calm down and sleep.

She was knocked down by a ball.

She'd watch me coming down her street, and by the time I'd biked up to her doorstep, there'd be a cold drink waiting.

Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees to sell the wood.

Six days a week, up and down the red hills of northeast georgia, my grandfather brought the mail to the folks there.

Six volunteers slid down the cliff with the help of a rope but gave up all hope of finding her alive after a 90-minute search.

Slow down and live a simple life.

So, slow down and think what you really want to do at that moment.

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.

Taylor's swift action helped her teammates calm down.

That would go down poorly in the us, however.

The city was crowded with disappointed people with no interest in settling down, and when they heard there were new gold discoveries in alaska, they left dawson city as quickly as they had come.

The dog jody fell down the cliff when she was running after a sheep.

The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty papers left.

The man should turn down the job offer.

The morson company turned down my application.

The movie is set in a small town where the only movie theater is preparing to close down.

The tasters move down the line with surprising speed, tasting from a spoon and deciding what is a fair price for each tea.

The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it.

The whole team count on Cristiano Ronaldo, and he seldom lets them down.

Then I asked him if he had cut down the amount of feed he had given the chickens.

Then I suggested it was time for him to slow down.

Through the Internet, Zac tracked down Corrado's sister Adeline Rockko.

Tom had to turn down the invitation to the party last weekend because he was too busy.

Trainees also get a good start on their wilderness survival badge as they learn about water-and land-survival through designed tasks and their search and rescue of "downed " pilot.

Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights.

We choose this hotel because the price for a night here is down to $20, half of what it used to charge.

When I ask him to please put down the phone and stop ignoring me, he says, "In a minute," but still checks to see if someone has posted something new on the Internet.

When some refuse vaccination and seek a free ride, immunity breaks down and everyone is in even bigger danger.

When the container is full, you can suck the refreshment out through the tube, and won't have to break down the still every time you need a drink.

When the snowman explodes, winter is considered officially over—the quicker it is burnt down, the longer summer is said to be.

When walking down the street, I came across david, when I hadn't seen for years.

When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness.

While he sounded the alarm, a student from leeds climbed down the cliff to collect Judy.

While the fear hung over my head, there were also signs that I was headed down the right street.

While, deep down, we know we can do it, our mind—or the minds of those close to us—usually says we can't.

With a code book, you might write down words that would stand for other words.

With great care she began the dangerous crossing, sometimes on her hands and knees, hardly daring to look down between the sleepers into the wild flood waters below.

You could cut that down even further by listing the specific years you want.

Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father’s line or mitochondrial DNA, which a passed down only from mothers.

At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

Among the most popular : paternity and kinship testing , which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put for adoption.

In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research.

First, they can shut things down without suffering much in the way of consequences.

As the cost to everyone else has become clearer, politicians have begun to clamp down.

Losing a job is hurting: you don’t skip down to the jobcentre with a song in your heart, delighted at the prospect of doubling your income from the generous state.

The virgin forest with its richness and variety of trees was a veritable real treasure-house which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia.

But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.

As you will come to see ,knowing that mental heath is always available and knowing to trust it allow us to slow down to the moment and live life happily.

The crash of Egypt Air Flight 804,which terrorists may have downed over the Mediterranean Sea ,provides another tragic reminder of why.

Likewise,automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work.

"Carry a book with you at all times" can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.

Among the most popular: paternity and kinship testing, which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put up for adoption.

As much of Mexico city shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to crop up in New York city, the southwestern United States and around the world.

At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

Boiling down an individual's output to simple metrics, such as number of publications or journal impacts, entails considerable savings in time, energy and ambiguity.

Breaking down problems into bite-sized chunks and using code to solve them becomes normal.

But it is not just down to the government.

Even if families are less likely to sit down to eat together than was once the case, millions of Britons will none the less have partaken this weekend of one of the nation's great traditions: the Sunday roast.

Even very young children tend to look down on the overweight, and teasing about body build has long been a problem in schools.

first, they can shut things down without suffering much in the way of consequences.

Hard times may hold you down at what usually seems like the most inopportune time, but you should remember that they won't last forever.

Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000from its year ago level.

likewise, automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work.

Losing a job is hurting: you don't skip down to the jobcentre with a song in your heart, delighted at the prospect of doubling your income from the generous state.

Many of us are weighed down by the past or anxious about the future.

People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come down with a cold, and the researchers calculated that the stress-reducing effects of hugging explained about 32 percent of that beneficial effect.

Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008.

since then it may have come down to $50 billion.

sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning一or else you're so exhausted that a challenging book's the last thing you need.

Studies dating back to the 1930's indicate that laughter relaxes muscles, decreasing muscle tone for up to 45 minutes after the laugh dies down.

There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June, but the general direction has been down.

They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as "endangered, " a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.

This suggests that the alleged "Hawthorne effect" is hard to pin down.

This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant.

Yet children appear to have it down to an art -- and for the most part they don't need self-help books or therapy.

Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father's line or mitochondrial DNA, which is a passed down only from mothers.

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