Concentrating attention on a thought or an insight or a hope or a fear will, over time, keep the relevant circuitry open and dynamically alive.
The decision has ramifications beyond striking down a plan to put street-hail cars in boroughs outside Manhattan's central business district, where people looking for a ride usually must call a livery cab to pick them up or hope that a yellow taxi passes by.
So you have to decide: Should you virtually guarantee yourself a highly capable leader, or take a gamble and hope for the best?
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They don't want to admit that they're wrong or they hope a loser is going to turn into a winner.
The U.S. needs to be a strategic -- or we hope it will be a strategic partner for our country.
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His administration may turn out to be a success, as his supporters hope, or a failure, as his critics fear.
But in a housing market this volatile, it can be hard to tell when low sales prices on property indicate a market that has bottomed or one with little hope of a turnaround any time soon.
He may also be able to claim a Hope or Lifetime Learning college tax credit, which are normally denied to better-off families.
The cost of regurgitating bitter, often illiterate ex-prisoners without money, housing or hope of a job back into real life, seldom features in official calculations.
The film is extraordinary to look at for its ingenious mixture of visual styles, and it will speak to anyone who has ever tried to take possession of a place or a person in the hope of taking possession of himself.
Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or do we participate in a politics of hope?
Do you try to reach your audience in one way when you are performing live, in a way that you would not expect or hope to be able to reach them on a recording?
These tiny and relatively cheap devices have revolutionised the filming of action sequences - you just clamp them to a bike, a car, or even a surfboard, press the button and hope you capture something exciting.
Let's hope Google or a third-party company invents some sort of artful lens cap for the camera.
Not only have 50 percent of Millennials started a business (or hope to), but their entrepreneurship rate is 10 percent higher than the general population.
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Mr Basescu's team must now decide whether to press for a No vote in the referendum, or a boycott, in the hope of keeping turnout below 50%.
It probably talks to a secret hope or fear that the story was true but there were also elements of the story that have been played out many times in sport.
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"I thought it was a fair effort on his part and well within what people could expect or hope for, " said Joe Papp, a former professional cyclist who was caught doping in 2006 and suspended from the sport.
He would have given short shrift to the notion that, under present circumstances, we can responsibly enter into a CW ban in the hope of offering a model that others may or may not choose to follow.
Although it is still a male-dominated area, there is a lot of hope that unlike the telecom, semiconductor or computer fields, cleantech can become a sector where women become more engaged.
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And Bob Balaban has an amusing bit as a film critic without hope or enthusiasm.
For all his warnings, pre-eminent power, or the hope of it, remained a loud and diverting siren-song.
Husna knew that she could never hope to attract or marry a young man from one of the rich established families.
"The traditional treatment for cervical cancer is a radical hysterectomy or radical radiotherapy but that of course takes away all the hope of having a baby and a family, " he said.
In the next few days they must decide whether to send in the first waves of grape pickers, or hold off a bit longer in the hope of creating even greater flavors.
Either in fear or in hope, many Greeks detect a breakdown of a political system, over a century old, in which two political groups (notionally of the centre-left and the centre-right, but both given to patronage and graft) progressively exhaust the national exchequer by outbidding each other.
Again, this is just a concept, so no guarantees we'll ever see this on the road, but a VW rep commented that they hope to see this in production in a year or two.
By reducing the state's role to that of setting the overall framework and providing a safety net, and by ensuring that every adult owns his or her own funded pension, the Tories hope to create a massive psycholgical shift in attitudes to saving.
"We can sell the mill, find a new tenant or we could put in a manager and manage it ourselves, but I hope that it won't come to this, " he added.
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