Are we just stubborn creatures of habit who are slow to adopt a better solution?
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Several of its clients, creatures of a protected era, were unable to survive in an increasingly competitive economy.
And all the creatures of Earth, just like the three of us circling it, all dependent on water.
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Yet Japanese firms are no less creatures of circumstance than are businesses elsewhere.
In the final analysis, despite our big brains and eons of evolution we remain, at heart, simple creatures of habit.
For centuries, scientists have catalogued the creatures of Europe - the tall and the small, the feathered and the furred.
The Planetarium also projects amazing 3D films on the 1, 000sqm dome-shaped screen, including voyages to the planets and creatures of the deep seas.
By comparison, the front-runners seem creatures of their electoral machines, less able to reverse the pervasive cynicism that candidates all deplore.
"We are creatures of habit, " Grimsson offered by way of explanation, adding that "it usually takes a crisis to bring about change".
Ironically, the attempt to shore up the mega-dinosaurs has revealed these mega-banks to be creatures of little brain and even less principle.
We are creatures of habit, and we all have very ingrained work methods, including some that may be mandated by our employers.
Queen bees are creatures of circumstance, encircling potential rivals in much the same way as the immune system attacks a foreign body.
The challenge is this: God didn't create psychiatric disorders when he was naming the fish of the sea and the creatures of the land.
But they were also aristocrats, creatures of their time fearful of what they considered the excessive democracy taking hold in the states in the 1780s.
But, like John Belushi and the other pranksters from Animal House, the creatures of Wall Street, no matter how awful their actions, continue to roam free.
Ekwoge Enang Abwe runs a project to try to safeguard the creatures of the Ebo Forest: the gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys that are pillaged for bushmeat.
And there they all, the creatures of the day, the former Irish army men who served in Lebanon and the Congo, the pensioneers, and fellows with but occasional jobs.
"We are now, most of us, creatures of the urban jungle and we're losing our connection with the natural world, with reality, " he said, adding that camping helps fix that.
Importantly, civil servants' careers are not advanced by being the creatures of individual ministers, but by the contribution they are deemed by their seniors to have made to the collective enterprise of government.
The Seven Noachide Laws, dating back to Noach, is the universal spiritual prescription for a practical reality of life for all Mankind and saving of the planet and all the Creatures of which we are meant to care.
Given that Gainsbourg resembled a horse with a hangover, it may seem unfeasible that creatures of rare perfection kept falling into his hay, but such are the mystical rules of attraction that prevail under Gallic skies and, alas, nowhere else.
We are creatures of habit, afterall.
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First, consumers are creatures of habit.
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Organizations like Sea Shepherd, Greenpeace, The International Fund for Animal Welfare, the Humane Society and -- yes -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals all campaign in various ways to stop the decimation of whales and other intelligent creatures of the sea.
Under the Sea transports viewers to some of the most exotic undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Australia, New Guinea and others in the Indo-Pacific region, allowing them to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea.
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