"All the monastics living at the temple get up at 3.30 am, there's a morning ceremony of lamps, and they sing devotional songs and meditate, then we have a philosophical lecture with a vegetarian meal, then it's a working day for everyone" says Gauri Das.

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It will send you packing, Worse still you may have a "circular reference" and you will get a lecture.

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Mothers who come in intending to breast feed and decide they want some formula will be subject to an educational talk (read: a "breast is best" lecture), and hospital staff will have to document a medical reason before they sign it out.

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Dr. Asif Saberi gives them a short lecture on how to prepare and encourages everyone to have their shots at least seven days before traveling.

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In a lecture at the British Museum, Mantel said Catherine appeared to have been "gloss-varnished" with a perfect plastic smile, and having no personality.

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The opportunity for a brainstorm is trumped by a lecture about the moral, legal, business or other violations you have unwittingly committed with your ideas.

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Kunskapsskolan Enskede, a school for 11- to 16-year-olds in a suburb of Stockholm, is a former office block into which classrooms, open-study spaces and two small lecture-theatres have been squeezed (pictured).

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