Like all caricatures, this book overstates its case about the contribution of pure chance to scientific breakthroughs. |
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Some scientific breakthroughs, like Edison's invention of the light bulb, are purposeful and planned. |
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Biology is going through a revolution driven by a series of technological breakthroughs in genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. |
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One of the significant breakthroughs Poedijono made is his use of English in his wayang performances. |
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During past scientific breakthroughs and innovations, human society was guided by a sense of optimism about the future. |
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Medical breakthroughs, including sulfa drugs, penicillin, and quinine, were also a consequence of the war. |
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Extremely promising breakthroughs in recent years have generated global interest in 3D bioprinting. |
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Animal research has produced key medical breakthroughs, from insulin to heart transplants to vaccines. |
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The panels have been chosen to represent major breakthroughs achieved by the CSIR in scientific research. |
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The prizes are intended to reward specific discoveries or breakthroughs, and the impact of these on the discipline. |
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This is a heavyweight resource about news and breakthroughs in the world of science. |
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Yet these are real risks, and they are being ignored in the headlong rush to profit from bioengineering breakthroughs. |
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Those breakthroughs alone would mean a virtually universally connected world. |
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Simply put, Google has made some enormous technical breakthroughs using the new multi-core processors. |
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He's forcing them, the scientific community, to really go forward with these potential breakthroughs, with one hand tied behind their back. |
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Just think about one of the most important breakthroughs in modern medicine. |
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With all those amazing new developments and breakthroughs, why haven't we cured this scourge? |
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It is true that not many major breakthroughs are achieved by mathematicians over the age of 40, but this may well be for sociological reasons. |
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The secret to the Pool Putter's success are two key breakthroughs discovered by Swedish engineer Leif Sundberg. |
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Improvements in agronomy are likely to be more concerned with efficiency and elegance rather than in major breakthroughs. |
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The Museum is looking to host exhibitions that celebrate major technological breakthroughs and the people behind them. |
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It's also too rigid and does not fit companies searching for innovative breakthroughs. |
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One of Penrose's major breakthroughs was his introduction of twistor theory in an attempt to unite relativity and quantum theory. |
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In the past the Liberals had made breakthroughs at by-elections and in gaining a large number of votes in general elections. |
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Many important medical breakthroughs in recent times have been a product of this mechanism. |
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Even before the breakthroughs that made long-distance fiber optics practical, aerospace engineers were trying to use photonic systems. |
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But hoping that the breakthroughs of tomorrow will wash away the problems of today is just whistling in the wind. |
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With other breakthroughs in chemistry, it is now possible to synthesize some natural products, like rubber, from non-natural sources. |
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Two recent major breakthroughs have revolutionized cattle-human comparative mapping. |
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Their results are published online by Small, a new journal dedicated to breakthroughs in nanoscience and engineering. |
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You are more likely to have major breakthroughs when your line of thought isn't being interrupted. |
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He was a blowhard at times, claiming breakthroughs that hadn't happened yet. |
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Scotland, as ever playing a disproportionate role in scientific breakthroughs, has had a significant part in the biogenetic revolution. |
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Regardless of the level, dual meets are exciting and championship meets bring major breakthroughs. |
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True historical breakthroughs, in which the defender is shocked into inaction or headlong flight, are almost impossible to achieve. |
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Campaigners said all three breakthroughs were testimony to Scotland's position in the forefront of international cancer research. |
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There is a famous tradition of creative breakthroughs being made after a good night's sleep. |
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It also needs to keep London and Dublin in line with a flash of thigh that hints at possible future breakthroughs. |
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I don't expect any breakthroughs but slight amendments that improve on what already exists. |
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Brilliant breakthroughs can emerge as a result of hard work and disciplined effort. |
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But the boom in major breakthroughs in the science of aerodynamics had dwindled. |
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The wind power industry has been transformed by dramatic breakthroughs in efficiency, economy, and adaptability. |
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Despite Hilleman's many breakthroughs in immunology and vaccinology, he has never been a household name. |
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What breakthroughs, and technological and economic paradigm shifts can we expect in the future? |
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As a counter to a lot of misinformation floating about, the company offers nine reasons to be skeptical of press reports about medical breakthroughs. |
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Conceptual innovators, like the cubists, made quick breakthroughs that revolutionized both the way art was executed and the way it was interpreted. |
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But renewing the No Child Left Behind Act would only be a hindrance to real educational breakthroughs. |
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Fundamental breakthroughs in biomaterials development could have far-ranging impact in this research area. |
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Despite the past century's breakthroughs in psychology and neuroscience, prodigiousness and genius are as little understood as autism. |
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It is a story of stalemates and slowdowns, but also of breakthroughs, compromises, trust and commitment. |
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Spending got out of control, vehicle piece costs got out of control, vehicles stopped being breakthroughs. |
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As breakthroughs occur and science marches forward, it is crucial to help create clearheaded, compassionate policy. |
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Expectations were not so much connected with new medical breakthroughs, but mainly the possibility of making lots of money. |
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That's why breakthroughs in mathematics reverberate through other disciplines. |
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However, the possibilities for malign use of these breakthroughs are both terrifying and vast. |
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A rare few represent discontinuous breakthroughs, such as the incandescent lamp, alternating electric current or the jet engine. |
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Prof. Olaf Kübler: Key scientific topics and problems will continue to provide surprises and breakthroughs for a remarkably long time. |
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They have made exceptional breakthroughs in the areas of culture, such as theatre, movies, visual arts, music and literature. |
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She claims that her career contains no major breakthroughs or turning points, but when she sang Amelia in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, people began to take notice. |
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For example, major breakthroughs are being made to convert lignocellulosic biomass products into ethanol. |
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Recent breakthroughs in this technology enable LMRs to interoperate, allowing radios on different frequencies and system types to communicate. |
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We should seek opportunities while facing challenges and try to realize technologic breakthroughs. |
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If Dr Wakefield has made such dramatic breakthroughs in his research into Crohn's disease, then why is it that these are not generally recognised? |
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There will no more be any great breakthroughs or discoveries. |
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The next decade should see some important breakthroughs including methods to maintain and possibly even repair damaged optic nerves in glaucoma. |
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This has been the case, for example, with breakthroughs in molecular biology and immunology in the field of health. |
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It is becoming more and more difficult to maintain current benefit levels, let alone make major breakthroughs. |
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It sets clear and realistic targets and deliverables with a view to achieving major breakthroughs in the areas where it is deployed. |
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Our Union has achieved breakthroughs in the past and has led the way in a number of areas in improving benefits and working conditions. |
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However, work is also needed on problem areas for smaller firms and for small-scale environmental technology breakthroughs. |
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After that, he said, the approach of elections in the U. S. and other countries would make it difficult to achieve breakthroughs. |
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They ensure the organization is nimble and responsive to new breakthroughs and emerging issues. |
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The G8 has a proud history of research innovation and scientific breakthroughs. |
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Such measures will generate breakthroughs, help increase volumes, lead to economies of scale and in turn reduce costs. |
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Researchers say one reason for this trend has been medical breakthroughs that have prolonged the lives of children with special needs. |
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The book is also filled with stories of breakthroughs that began with a question. |
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That has its breakthroughs, and its brilliance, but something is lost when humor becomes as fragmented as politics. |
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Federal dollars helped produce such scientific breakthroughs as the Human Genome Project. |
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The contrast could not have been greater between a pair of diplomatic breakthroughs and the intransigence of Congress. |
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In service of these unspecific fears, we would be denying ourselves the fruits of scientific breakthroughs that have already occurred or are much more imminent. |
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Such research may someday lead to important medical breakthroughs. |
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The exhibition contains material on two of his important breakthroughs. |
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Today, medical research relies heavily on space-age technology and breakthroughs occur almost every day, sometimes arrived at in the most unexpected ways. |
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Yet recent breakthroughs in chaos theory and quantum mechanics, for example, also suggest that the workings of the universe cannot be predicted with absolute precision. |
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Groupe SEB's history is punctuated by revolutionary ideas and ingenious breakthroughs, from the Super Cocotte to the Actifry deep fryer, not to mention the non-stick coating and self-cleaning iron soleplate. |
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These investments help ensure that discoveries and breakthroughs happen here in Canada, and that Canadians can realize the social and economic benefits. |
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Whereas the coverage of the Organization's messages and activities in the field of heritage has long been an accomplished fact, there have been important breakthroughs in education and the sciences. |
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Let us work toward discoveries that lead to medical breakthroughs. |
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Moreover, the high technical standards required of space equipment have led to enormous technological breakthroughs, which have gradually filtered into our everyday lives. |
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A handful of major breakthroughs have led to the modern brewery and its ability to produce the same beer consistently. |
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These historic breakthroughs make it clear that, in collaboration with you, our government wants to make a meaningful difference in the lives of the First Peoples. |
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Many of the most significant scientific breakthroughs in modern history have been first published in Nature. |
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In fact, after 48 hours into the offensive, the Germans had not made any major breakthroughs. |
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The prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV is a priority area where, working together with UNICEF, UNFPA and WHO, we have achieved major breakthroughs. |
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Finally, the issuing of the Special Declaration on Global Trade had a positive impact on these talks and on the breakthroughs made at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong. |
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This resulted in significant breakthroughs at the 2013 local elections, 2014 European elections, and 2015 general election. |
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From 1911 onwards rapid social change, scientific breakthroughs, and major world events affected the structure of the population. |
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The other abstract expressionists followed Pollock's breakthrough with new breakthroughs of their own. |
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Looking ahead, prices will likely remain at their current levels for some time, as it appears that no major breakthroughs with Iran are expected to occur in the near future. |
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Early process control breakthroughs came most frequently in the form of water control devices. |
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Patents provide a vital protection for innovation and breakthroughs. |
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But James was often too early to get credit for his breakthroughs. |
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At the Sarnia laboratory alone, the company has taken out more than 740 patents and made a number of technological breakthroughs that have had an international impact on today's petroleum products and processing. |
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Albert Einstein is credited with making some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern physics. |
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In another area, one of the year's breakthroughs was the industrial engineering of new edging and mounting processes, combined with improved service and lower costs. |
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Taiji has been organising whale hunts ever since locals made breakthroughs 400 years ago in harpoon technology and in the use of nets to slow down whales migrating along this rocky coast. |
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There will be no all-encompassing disarmament breakthroughs, no milestone agreements against which all other progress is measured, no universal principles to guide further efforts. |
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Even if we manage to achieve the breakthroughs which we need in the area of democracy and maintain the tendency towards an equitable mix in the social fabric, the huge ecological question still remains. |
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One of the breakthroughs depended on the novel technique of laser cooling and trapping, in which the radiation pressure of a laser beam cools and localizes atoms by slowing them down. |
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The engine disabling weapon builds on the breakthroughs HSV Technologies has made with its non-lethal tetanizing beam weapon for use on humans. |
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In addition, certain ethical problems, such as those raised by breakthroughs in techniques of human reproduction or embryology, are set in the various cultural, philosophical and religious bedrocks of human communities. |
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While breakthroughs do occur, their project paths are frequently described as serendipitous, rule-breaking, and led by mavericks. |
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They asked the program to focus on achieving breakthroughs that no single company could do on its own. |
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Additional prizes will accelerate breakthroughs in medicine and fuel-efficient automobiles. |
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His work resulted in one of the major breakthroughs in modern shotshell technology. |
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We are on the verge of new breakthroughs, and the root for these is the development of advanced therapies, using gene and cell therapies and tissue engineering. |
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Major breakthroughs were made from the 1950s to 1970s, and accelerated rapidly thereafter. |
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They made scientific breakthroughs on issues such as the creation of galaxies, the roots of human empathy, quantum physics, new catalysts and the science of materials. |
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As a result of this and other scientific breakthroughs multiple births are on the increase. |
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Portuguese and foreign experts made several breakthroughs in the fields of mathematics, cartography and naval technology. |
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To date the foundation has also funded many initiatives where results coming from the research activities have led to breakthroughs in climatology, meteorology and oceanography. |
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He presents Brave New World, a global exploration of the scientific breakthroughs that are transforming our lives in the 21st century. |
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Canadians' interest in science and technology must also be engaged by sharing our discoveries and breakthroughs in meaningful ways that relate to their daily lives. |
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It is with some hesitation that we include the technique of gasometry into this list of important breakthroughs in technology. |
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His breakthroughs have resulted in prominently situating Canada in the fields of medical devices, artificial hearts, remote power transfer and in situ sterilization. |
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Draws on reality-based, compelling fiction to show the destructive nature of working environments and discusses breakthroughs in employee involvement and health. |
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His message was that computer science was on the cusp of breakthroughs in areas like speech recognition and artificial intelligence. |
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Japan is urging academics to patent their breakthroughs in order to profit from them and to co-operate more closely with private industry, which used to be considered as a comedown. |
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However, to do so creates a blitzkrieg effect, in which the attacker gets to choose which attacks he wants to do first so that he can achieve breakthroughs. |
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And breakthroughs have been made onstage with varieties of same-sex dances, some emotionally charged and others relaxedly expressive in other ways. |
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But, at the same time, we cannot sit back and wait for such potentially game-changing breakthroughs to emerge from the laboratories and make the often long and arduous journey to market. |
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The mathematical science of logic likewise had revolutionary breakthroughs after a similarly long period of stagnation. |
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By developing humanoids, companies can both demonstrate their technological prowess and benefit from ancillary breakthroughs that emerge along the way. |
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The revolutionary breakthroughs in convenient birth control techniques have given new profiles to feminity. |
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This led to breakthroughs in 3D seismology and directional drilling. |
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Mary Anning was a famed fossilist whose discoveries where breakthroughs for geology and the museum is built on the site of her home. |
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Their internationally acclaimed multimedia work has been described as one of the most significant breakthroughs in conceptual art in the past decade. |
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Canadian radio astronomy got going in the late 1940's, powered by the torrent of technical breakthroughs that took place during the Second World War. |
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Operational Lindbergh has opened up exciting new possibilities thanks to this full-scale test. The results will energize further breakthroughs in telesurgery, real-time collaboration and distance training for surgeons. |
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However, technical breakthroughs would be required to achieve this. The potential of second-generation biofuels to be economically, environmentally and socially sustainable needs to be further explored. |
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Survival rates for other cancers, including breast, bowel and prostate, have gained ground after breakthroughs in detection, treatment and prevention. |
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Lewis Mumford, the historian and urbanologist, harbored similar views regarding our preoccupation with technological breakthroughs at the expense of our more pressing needs. |
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The party made its first major breakthroughs at council level in the 2007 local elections, electing 8 councillors between Glasgow City and City of Edinburgh Councils. |
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Many breakthroughs have been achieved through gastroenterological and hepatological research over the past century, forming the basis of the modern medical practice. |
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It is a standalone, smart Internet telephony appliance that reroutes calls over the Internet without a computer, delivering breakthroughs in technology, quality and savings. |
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One of the most prominent breakthroughs was the GOELRO plan, which envisioned a major restructuring of the Soviet economy based on total electrification of the country. |
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