But they are part of an insatiable machine with a life and logic of its own.
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The principal competitor machine made by Life Technologies has temperature uniformity to within 0.5 degrees Celsius.
That will help stretch the machine's useful life before it needs to be replaced.
Mr Ahern described the plant as "being kept on a life support machine" by the British taxpayer.
The other guy's been running bigger and bigger cogs in the Chicago political machine his entire adult life.
Ms Watts, also known as Mimi, was taken to a hospital in Annecy and placed on a life support machine.
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His carer, Violetta Aylward, an agency nurse working for the NHS, was filmed switching off her patient's life support machine.
She had no memory of the crash and her family was told to consider switching off her life support machine at Newcastle General Hospital.
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At the weekend Mr Adams said the Good Friday Agreement, on which the peace process is based, was "now on a life support machine".
The mother of a nine-year-old girl, who died following an operation, has described the moment it was time to turn off her life support machine.
Her student physiotherapist husband - who was studying his degree at the University of West England, Bristol - was flown home on a life support machine.
The problem for the banks is that turning off the life support machine on distressed property could cause too many losses for their balance sheets to bear.
Now, he thinks he has found the perfect tool: a new DNA sequencing device called the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine, made by Life Technologies of Carlsbad, Calif.
The DUP's Sammy Douglas referred to a comment made by the chairman of the board of governors, Stephen Costello, that the college was "in a dire situation, on a life support machine".
With the right monetary, fiscal and regulatory tools, the growth machine will eventually whirr into life.
Mrs Mullany died instantly and her husband was placed on a life-support machine.
The Business Smart series inkjets, like all other Brother products, offer free technical support for the life of the machine.
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The ambulance was transporting a girl who was reliant on a life-support machine, when a heavy object was thrown at it.
The machine that could change your life is a compact device, only 24 inches wide, 20 inches deep and 21 inches high.
In expedition conditions, I would literally bet my life on this machine.
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He took control of the firm in 1996 when Mr Cantor was on a life-support machine, but only after a court battle with the founder's wife, Iris.
If that's not enough, Google's ahead of you, and is throwing in 1TB of Drive storage with every Pixel for three years -- what it expects the life of the machine to be.
That's right, instead we're told by NVIDIA that the discrete GeForce 201M GPU runs continuously and Intel's integrated chip is never used -- a configuration which sounds like it'll absolutely kill the battery life on this machine.
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This action followed a letter to state officials from a couple who, driving back to Boston on Christmas Eve, noticed a "young man pointing a life-sized machine gun" at a video game inside the Massachusetts Turnpike's plaza in Charlton, about 100 miles from Newtown.
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This action followed a letter to state officials from a couple who, on their way back toward Boston on Christmas Eve, noticed a "young man pointing a life-sized machine gun" at a video game inside the Massachusetts Turnpike's plaza in Charlton, about 100 miles from Newtown.
In fact, they firmly stated that it's only a surefire recommendation to those who will be utilizing the 3D panel with great frequency, noting that the decision to toss a power-hungry Core i7 into an otherwise portable machine led to subpar battery life that would frustrate frequent travelers.
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