• Occasionally, after a train had passed, Fyodorov would discover some object on the track and try at length to fathom its significance.

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  • Two-factor authentication works by requiring that anyone who wants to gain access to something possess not just a password or login, but also some physical object.

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  • Some might object that a downloaded movie has no physical form, and that there is thus nothing really "there" to tax, but that's an easily vanquished argument.

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  • It will face opposition: perhaps a fifth of the 513 deputies may stand for some mayoralty or other next year, and some will object to constraints on future spending.

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  • What is more, they must pretend not to be eavesdropping even though they are only a few feet away from the mediated conversation, ideally by assuming a pose of concentration on some other object, such as their fingernails or their own phone.

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  • Some people object to an opt-out system on the basis that there will inevitably be a few people who fail to opt out and fail to inform their family of their wishes, even though they would not wish their organs to be used to help others - and these people may have their organs taken without consent.

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  • Several voters said they thought Gore was too stiff during the debate, but none of them objected to the vice president's loud sighs in response to some of his opponents' statements--the object of some television commentary after the debate.

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  • Many conservatives think it a stretch to say this means the federal government can force people to buy health insurance, especially when some state governments object.

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  • The bigger problem: Despite being the cleanest energy available, some environmental groups object to large wind turbines spoiling the landscape, as well as the impact on migrating birds.

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  • Then he stared vacantly at his own outstretched index finger as if at some mysterious, misplaced object.

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  • In some areas fishing crews object to MPZs, even though they are supposed to provide a breeding ground for fish stocks to recover.

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  • Hilath said he believes the island nation, with its young population, is getting more socially liberal but this has provoked a backlash from a hardline minority who object to some of his writings.

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  • This means online intermediaries have generous leeway to determine what content and commerce travels over their systems without the fear that they will be overwhelmed by lawsuits if other parties object to some of that content.

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  • Some reformist groups also object, arguing that the changes do not strengthen civil institutions enough, and raise the scope for corruption by lessening the time required between a public official's leaving office and his standing in some election.

    ECONOMIST: Guatemala

  • Some critics of this approach object to the idea of government funding going to any group motivated by faith.

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  • The chair, in response to some questions and complaints by the Democrats, and I must say I don't -- I find them with some substance to them, object to Mr. Schippers' remarks as a citizen.

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  • And, specifically, does he agree -- or does he agree with the approach taken that some people in rural areas object to, and that is they -- that they are being inordinately asked to bear a greater burden by having their local post offices closed under the plan that was put forward today?

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  • There are moments brief, valuable moments of exploration, discovery and fun, spaced between hours upon hours of smashing through the same zombie horde with the same blunt object to recover some new tan-colored Macguffin and return it to some new desperate survivor in exchange for the same old stick with a new skin.

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  • She is a female leader in a Muslim society, which is something even some members of her own government object to.

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  • For some on the right, who object even to the idea of a federal income tax, the mandate is an old fight reborn.

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  • Whitmire notes that Sedna, thought by some to be an inner Oort Cloud object, may have also been perturbed by Tyche, since Sedna has an orbit well beyond that of Neptune.

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  • Because the astronomers were looking at the asteroid low in the sky, they were viewing it through a lot of atmosphere, which scattered some of the light and made the object fainter, he said.

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  • Suddenly, Todashev knocked over a table -- knocking the FBI agent back into a wall -- and came at him with some sort of "long-handled object" that he'd grabbed from behind him, according to the official.

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  • Some reformers have said they would not object to the tribunal's presence at such a trial, and suggested that the issue should be discussed when the tribunal's chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte visits Belgrade later this week.

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  • Some panel members say they favor counting any object which is large enough that its gravity has made it round.

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  • But when a counterfeit classic is so good that even the experts are impressed, some buyers just can't resist the object of their desire at a knockdown price.

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  • Apophis is some 350 metres across, considerably larger than the object that is thought to have flattened 2, 000 square kilometres of Siberian forest as it vaporised in the atmosphere above Tunguska in 1908.

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  • Newspapers are full of unnamed GOP sources talking about how the leadership might sign on to (or at least not object to) such ideas as ending some ethanol subsidies or changing the way business inventories are taxed.

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