From slavery to the civil rights movement, black social action offered the nation the opportunity -- and template -- for transforming democratic rhetoric into uplifting deeds that brought America closer to its founding principles.
And ever since then, that's been sort of the mental template - and actually operational template too - for members of the press, for prosecutors and for members of the opposition party to whoever is in office at the time, to find ways to have the real-time reality show drama of high-stakes hearings where you have witnesses under pressure, senators and representatives grandstanding in various ways.
Simultaneously, we built a multi-layered module-and-template system for Forbes 400 profiles in print.
Formal religion, meanwhile, is supposed to have appeared only after agriculture produced such hierarchical social relations as required a cosmic backstory to keep them going and supplied a template for the power relationship between gods and mortals.
"On websites, blogs and social network forums, many groups have provided template letters and resources for parents to use in drafting such requests, " read a memo from New York State Association of School Attorneys released this week to guide districts through the issue.
The Democrats and their media enablers use a tried-and-true template to dominate the debate.
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Here, you simply earn the template and then spool it out via your printer.
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Implementing and expanding that template, Ann has transformed an interest in giving into a career as philanthropist.
They look pretty professional, and loading your images up and using that template could not be simpler.
It modifies the Word setting by infecting the warning template and the current open file, he said.
"Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner, " said media critic Tom Rosenstiel.
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After gathering all that information together they create a slide-show, a write-up, a stock template and quick elevator pitch of the company.
Back in 2008, Deane created her first e-commerce site the same way entrepreneurs around the world do every day: She used a free online template and linked her site immediately to PayPal for online payments.
This would air matters thoroughly and could provide a template for a later government-sponsored bill.
But his enormous energy and focus provides a template for how smaller businesses can make a big impact.
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Rush created the new AM template, and it spread like wildfire.
Not just your name and address and place of birth but your image, signature, fingerprints - maybe even iris scans and a facial measurement template.
He told the BBC that questions of national sovereignty and self-government were just as important and the EU needed a "new, looser template of membership", based around trade and political co-operation, that could appeal to the UK and other like-minded countries.
But there is one significant sense in which both Brown and Dylan gave him a template.
Change the rules, he says, and we can become a template for marginalised communities all over Scotland.
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Joshfire Factory uses the freemium model, letting users have a basic template for free and charging for add-ons such as social network integrations, ads, statistics and so on.
If you are looking for a template for averting and managing future banking messes, why not try a touch of Hayek for Cyprus and for Europe for that matter?
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The rapidly-growing plans are quite popular with retirees, now covering over a quarter of all Medicare beneficiaries, and MA could provide a template for market-oriented reform of the Medicare system.
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He ends his book with a blast of cartographical analysis, and suggests that weather maps have created the template for other representations of volatile geographic phenomena such as the incidence of crime and disease.
Jung argues that, in addition to our personal unconscious (a unique personalised psychic dumping ground for all our experiences, anxieties, neuroses and repressed thoughts) we all also share the same template in the form of archetypes, which help us understand and explain the world in which we live.
It's mildly convincing and sites are starting to pick it up -- the story goes some dude grabbed these pics from a Photoshop template his friend was working on and then posted it to Flickr, a scenario reminiscent of those iPod nano phatty shots that turned out to be real.
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What's more, with an audience-tested template of what works and what doesn't, costly mistakes can be avoided.
To place a photo into your template, just click and drag it there.
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Going back further, the 1976 Super Bowl featured a Xerox ad that set a template for future insouciance and cleverness.
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