The "Downton" characters bear witness to many innovations of the day: the telephone, women's suffrage, the cocktail party, the toaster and the idea that one can choose one's own path in life, regardless of birth.
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She has become one of India's millions who have renounced the world to follow a spiritual path, but she is one of the reluctant ones.
"The only way that fits the development of Chinese media is one that can suit the country's development path, " it said.
One reason is that Serbia's EU accession path has slowed.
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The Lexington Institute's Loren Thompson says those mishaps usually result from a simple break in the line-of-sight connection between a plane and the satellite that controls it--often when one of the aircraft's own wings maneuvers into the path of the signal.
One might even say that Apple's attempting to provide a Path-like experience within the iOS core, but who knows if it'll ever actually act on its earlier inclinations.
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As my investment banker friends pointed out--not without considerable caveats--since its inception, the Nasdaq index has followed an exponential path--one that is remarkably like Moore's Law.
Although it is a private social network, there are times when you just want to have a one-to-one (or one-to-few) conversation with your friend(s) on Path.
Most of the sites in the bulldozer's path are empty due to damage from Hurricane Katrina, but one still has people living in it.
The park's mines closed in the 1900s, but the leete path, one of the main trails through the park, follows the route of a former mine working watercourse.
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This exploits one of the predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity: that the path of a beam of light (which is a straight line in empty space) is bent inwards by the gravity of a massive object.
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One of last year's Shooting Stars, Carey Mulligan, is well on the path to becoming a bonafide star.
And the way that he treats it is, it's the most searing experience of his political life and one that set him on the path to being a reformer.
One officer called to say there was a bird left in a house in the fire's path.
It's romantic to imagine that each person is destined for a particular career path, one capable of being discovered with sufficient soul-searching.
The Abraham Path may have been conceived as a modern re-creation of one prophet's journey, but it can also be seen as a pilgrimage into the earliest glimmers of civilisation.
Mr Osborne's budget puts Britain on the path to fiscal redemption, but that path is a hard one.
In developed markets, one path to better engagement with users could be through new features that make use of Facebook's vast quantities of personal data about each of its members.
That's certainly one thing that, among others, that we have looked at to get our country back on a path toward fiscal responsibility.
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