Sadly, like most other disciplines involving human behavior, the field has taken an empirical, often commercialized turn so that now we study communications instrumentally, always with some discrete end in mind for every communicative act.
Never mind that she spends the first act being leered at by the villain mostly to make Tony Stark oh-so-jealous, never mind that she spends literally the entire second half of the film as a damsel-in-distress.
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If this is, indeed, what the Iranian regime has in mind, would we wait to act?
"The fact that they didn't act more quickly is mind-boggling, " says Bob L. Scherman, publisher of Satellite Business News.
Elements in such a charge include demonstrating the death was caused by a criminal act, and that the act demonstrated a depraved mind without regard for human life.
If there is any doubt in your mind that the company will not act with integrity, RUN away from the deal as quickly as you can to save yourself and your company from unnecessary headaches.
President Nicos Anastasiades had appealed to lawmakers to act with the national interest in mind.
On the contrary, our ability to think and act decisively with the future in mind has diminished.
People rarely act with a single purpose in mind.
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Now keep in mind, this was 34 years after the Equal Pay Act was signed by President Kennedy in 1963, a law designed to abolish wage disparity based on gender.
When we first started working on the Recovery Act last winter, we had two objectives in mind when it came to education.
With that in mind, some have argued that the United States should not act until China and other emerging economies do.
The American Jobs Act was designed with the weak spots in our economy in mind.
Keep in mind, this sale is for today only, so you might want to act fast.
The winning act will be chosen by the public in the BBC One show Making Your Mind Up on 5 March.
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If anything, a detector seems to act more like a placebo in medicine inducing an effect in the mind of the recipient just by being there.
Now, the Senate is going to have a chance to do the right thing over the next few weeks when Senator Reid brings the DREAM Act to the floor. (Applause.) Keep in mind, in the past, this was a bill that was supported by a majority of Democrats and Republicans.
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Meanwhile, Jonathan Kent's sometimes imaginative, sometimes annoying new production for the English National Opera is set nowhere in particular: the whole of Act I takes place in the she's-read-too-many-storybooks mind of Senta as a young girl.
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The act was introduced more with Australia's growing number of immigrants from non-European backgrounds in mind.
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