Attempting to view the scene from an external point of view will help you reconsider how best to achieve common understanding.

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In Switzerland, which like the U.K. isn't part of the euro zone, the central bank has used the euro as its external reference point in its efforts to keep the Swiss franc's value stable.

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When we are determined to make this a better world, there is a tendency to focus almost exclusively on the external world as the point of departure.

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Adjacent lenses in O. wendtii are generally attached to the same individual plate of the external skeleton, so they all point in more or less the same direction.

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The benefit of external social engagement are conversion as you point out in your article.

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Nuclear shut down its Indian Point Unit 3 in New York due to external electrical grid issues.

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And several recent studies point to a range of factors -- from a mother's religiosity, external emotional support and a grandparent living in the home -- that can concretely contribute to single mothers' raising productive, happy children.

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They point out that Germany was able to grow in a period of flat domestic demand because external demand was booming.

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