• To this day the valleys retain the magical feeling of a world apart.

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  • Realizing just a small portion of those fantasies could break apart barriers and further shrink the world, in a good way.

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  • In this environment, a world apart from the early frontier days of the Internet, hackers today universally exhibit a certain mercenary sensibility, cannily juggling multiple offers, playing judge in hustler beauty contests at hackathons, planning acqui-hire trajectories, and in general maximizing their value as the stewards of the new body of technical knowledge.

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  • There seemed to be no contact with the world apart from the roar of a jet fighter looping Manhattan.

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  • That is time when his mind will not have had much in it - apart from the thought of a world title fight.

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  • To keep a steady gaze, the film suggests, is not just a virtue but a form of orderly protest, when your world is breaking apart.

    NEWYORKER: The Time That Remains

  • Brody, who portrayed Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman in "The Pianist, " the true story of a musician in a Warsaw ripped apart by World War II and the Holocaust, beat competition including Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Caine and Nicolas Cage.

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  • That is a world apart from 1952, when corporate taxes generated 32% of federal revenue, individual taxes 42% and payroll tax 10%.

    FORBES: Which Corporate Giants Pay The Most In Taxes?

  • While Bill Gates and Warren Buffett--numbers one and two on last year's Forbes Billionaires list-- engage in a genteel game of bridge, Lakshmi Mittal is ripping apart the world's steel industry and reshaping it to his liking.

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  • Steven and Margret are unlikely friends, living and working half a world apart, but are united by a common desire to facilitate all of the good things people are doing in the world to build self-reliance through financial empowerment and education, and in so doing, they are leaving their marks on the world.

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  • Pulling apart two of the world's top auto manufacturers half a decade after they've merged sounds like an impossible undertaking.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Unfortunately, Germany did not understand that Britain did not have a lien on the whole world, and that (British interests apart) the views of other powers had to be taken into account, so that the desired territorial concessions could not be slipped into Germany's pocket without demur.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • It was free, apart from the cost of a stamp, when much of the rich world's vast advice industry was costly.

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  • The device, first introduced this past February at Mobile World Congress, stands apart from its capacitive rivals thanks primarily to the addition of a Wacom-like digitizer panel optimized for the company's handwriting recognition software and a slew of stylus-specific, pre-loaded apps, like Adobe's Photoshop Touch and Samsung's own S Note.

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  • The texture of the pages combine with the smell of ink and paper, as the writer pours their imagination and soul into a world that's apart from your own.

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  • This ill-motivated and superficial attack on 20th-century philosophy contains a nice expression of the lasting intellectual difficulty the church faces in the modern world: the statements, one paragraph apart, that the church has no philosophy of its own but that modern philosophy has fallen into error.

    ECONOMIST: The Roman Catholic church

  • As part of our efforts to educate consumers about responsible travel choices, TIES, along with several other global institutions and organizations such as the United Nations Environmental Programme, United Nations Foundation, Rainforest Alliance and the United Nations World Tourism Organization, has been working on developing a global process evaluating the effectiveness of certification mechanisms that clearly set apart sustainable from non-sustainable forms of tourism. (See: www.sustainabletourismcriteria.org for more information.).

    CNN: The International Ecotourism Society statement

  • Apart from two spikes attributable to the fighting of world wars, this ratio has been on a fairly steady upward march over the past hundred years.

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  • The growth of the Internet and rise of social media has been a disruptive force that is tearing apart and remaking marketing strategies all around the world.

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