As for his writing, it passed from poems that had been an attempt to write some small and essentially truthful things out of the depths of himself (a self that was essentially unsure, tentative, indecisive) to often magisterial, and sometimes vapid prose: pronouncements upon the state of culture, and on how culture could stave off anarchy.
So whilst I would be the first to admit that the Union side have to some extent dodged bullets, and even underachieved at the last, in recent years, it is nonetheless true that England are now respected, even feared, by the southern hemisphere, and carry a self confidence that could well bring them the big prize.
Over a decade ago he helped pioneer the idea of the cube-sat satellite that is a small self contained box that could ride with other such boxes in the payload of a rocket where it could conduct low gravity experiments, biological experiments of do other interesting activities when released into space.
Using capital as a means of ensuring that banks do not fail will be a self-fulfilling prophesy that will only guarantee a land made up of Too-Big-To-Fail giants ( Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, etc.), and will eliminate any creativity in the financial sector.
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In a blistering letter in February to Michael Powell, the new chairman of the FCC, RadioShack, Circuit City and Sears argued that the encryption license is a self-preservation device that creates a double standard: one for the cable companies that own CableLabs and one for everyone else.
Now, that's a low bar, given -- (laughter.) But there was a team from Tennessee that had designed a self-powered water filtration plant so that homes in Appalachia could have access to clean water.
By coating their fabric with nano particles made from this new N-TiO2, the researchers have created a fabric that self-cleans in the presence of a very broad spectrum of light.
As part of my contribution to today's hearing, I wanted to emphasize some of the private sector arguments for companies to implement new security-minded due diligence procedures that bring a self-policing dimension to their activities in a way that mitigates the valid risks involved.
But with hundreds of thousands of new titles each year (a number that self-publishing will only increase) there are good salespeople out there who could, with a decent contractual structure, provide that service.
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But what my former pastor too often failed to understand is that embarking on a program of self-help also requires a belief that society can change.
Kouffman Sherman adds that the arm cross is a self-protecting behavior that reveals a defensive side to your personality.
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Hal Rosen, a manager of research at Hitachi, says he's impressed by the researchers' ability to shrink so much storage into such a small space, but skeptical that a self-assembling method could create larger-scale disks.
By expanding the tournament to include as many as four teams from the strongest nations and by introducing a group stage that guarantees each competing club at least six matches, European soccer officials have created a self-perpetuating system that plays to the strengths of historical powers.
Researchers at ETH Zurich are working to change that scenario, as they're currently developing a "self-reconfigurable" device that packs a glue gun for creating the tools it needs on the fly.
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Plus, how can you not like a book about a spaceship that numbers among its crew a piece of automated luggage that has become self-aware and founded a lobbying group for other self-aware appliances and luggage?
But she's taken care to bring along a small Peter Beard photograph with a wooden frame that sits on a shelf and a Francis Bacon self-portrait drawing that's hanging in the living room.
Sun owes its position today to its evangelical fervour and a self-belief that borders on the arrogant.
What could be more fitting, after all, for a city named after a creature that self-immolates and then rises out of its own ashes?
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He carried himself with a self-assurance that bordered on cockiness.
Mr Blair shifted uneasily in his seat - was it that he was already anticipating charges that he had offered a high profile endorsement for the product, or simply that as a self-confessed technophobe he hadn't a clue what was going on?
Warren, who founded Saddleback with his wife 33 years ago, gave the invocation at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration and penned "The Purpose-Driven Life, " a Christian self-help guide that became a mainstream best-seller.
These capabilities are packed into a device barely larger than a USB stick that is self-powered through a monitor and easily fits inside your pocket.
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He was the author of a number of discoveries relating to the telegraph industry, including a self-adjusting relay that solved the problem of circuits sticking open or shut, and a telegraph printer a precursor of what was later called the Teletype machine.
But the fact is that was a self-inflicted wound and we can't have that kind of nonsense anymore.
He also shows how guilt for a dishonest act is rationalized away so that a pure self-image emerges.
That was what it took for women's tennis to begin a 40-year journey of self-empowerment that has created a generation of sporting millionaires.
By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people.
DARPA, after all, is the ultra-forward-thinking Pentagon agency that hosted the Grand Challenge in 2006 and 2007, an autonomous car race across the Mojave desert, as well as the Urban Challenge, a 2008 event that challenged self-driving cars to negotiate a cityscape complete with obstacles and traffic.
Milton Campbell, better known as Little Milton, was a legend of the Delta blues, a self-taught guitarist with a voice that really made you believe what he had to say.
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