• The simple answer is that they are made up of like-minded individuals.

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  • Will there ever come a time when actual people, rather than just the particles of which they are made up, will be able to beam from one place to another?

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  • It may not be the case that they are made up of the back streets of our great industrial cities, but having said that they are not just all the landed gentry, which I think is the perception.

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  • Applying an electric charge to the liquid crystals causes the molecules they are made up of to realign themselves, altering the transparency of that layer. (The screens of portable computers work in a similar way.) The result is that a high-resolution negative copy of the moving image is formed in the liquid-crystal layer.

    ECONOMIST: Curtains for celluloid

  • Well, the source and the site they're on seem a little shaky to us, but the specs themselves don't seem too far-fetched -- OLED screens are getting cheaper and more prevalent, and we're almost certain to see bumps in camera resolution and storage, so even if they are totally made up, we'd venture to guess they're more right than wrong.

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  • Flip and his accident, Didi Bombonato and his croissant hair, the Valera mechanics, the whole Valera company, the tanned boys on their bicycles they are all magnificently made up, brief blooms of the Utah desert.

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  • Sufficient in number to suggest that they are legitimate and not made up.

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  • Following the Bureau of Economic Analysis, they acknowledge that disaster losses are made up of two components (destruction of assets and the disruption of the flow of capital), making them different from economic losses.

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  • David Miliband: Well there are regional assemblies which are made up mainly of local councillors, so they are representative of their communities, and they play a particular role on housing and planning issues, and that's why there was a reference in your film to the whole of the North West.

    BBC: Politics Show, Sunday 23 October 2005

  • They are an ethnic group, mostly made up of Shiite Muslims, who migrated from Afghanistan more than century ago.

    NPR: Pakistani Shiites Mourn As Bomb Death Toll Hits 45

  • Dodd, who helped shepherd the bill through the Senate, says the companies are "fundamentally sound and strong, " noting that they hold excess capital and that their portfolios are primarily made up of healthy, 30-year fixed-rate loans.

    FORBES: Senator Gives Fannie, Freddie Thumbs-Up

  • What other whiskey suffers periodical shortages because cases are snatched up before they're even made?

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  • The teams, through their umbrella organisation Fota, have made it clear they are keen to come up with new ways of improving F1 - and that includes considering a new points system.

    BBC: F1 boss plans scoring revolution

  • Both it and its descendants, so-called buckytubes, which are cylindrical molecules made of pure carbon, are still much admired, but they have not yet lived up to their promise.

    ECONOMIST: The 2010 Nobel prizes

  • Often it's decided by people who are not elected actually, because they're made up in a different way.

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  • Pretty much everyone has made up their mind about who they are going to vote for before they enter, and even though there are many names on it, there are only a handful of lists -- that are national lists -- that people have to look at, and then the others are more small ethnically specific lists.

    CNN: Raman: For Iraqis, vote 'about life and death'

  • Customer service representatives cover up a mistake they made because they are afraid the client will leave them.

    FORBES: Success Will Come and Go, But Integrity is Forever

  • They are made even more so if bankers then lack the courage to stand up for them.

    ECONOMIST: European champions

  • They are catching up and there is a lot of money to be made by investing in those markets.

    FORBES: A Review of "Investing Without Borders"

  • Delhi's organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi insists progress has been made in cleaning up the athletes' accommodation and they are ready to receive the 7, 000 visitors to the 32 tower blocks.

    BBC: Photographs expose athletes' village concerns in Delhi

  • They say the board will be mostly made up of people who are independent of the press, but would include a sufficient number of people with experience of the industry such as former editors and senior or academic journalists.

    BBC: Labour: Conservative royal charter 'dilutes' Leveson

  • These strategies are made up of different stock selection criteria, and therefore they select stocks with varying characteristics, but both significantly outperformed their respective benchmarks over the 43 years he analyzed them.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And even though political leaders have responded by saying they will form a unity government made up of technocrats until new elections are held, more trouble is expected in towns across Tunisia in coming days.

    BBC: Resurgence of revolt where Arab Spring began

  • They take place each year because counties are fixing small tabulation errors made when adding up precinct totals on election night, as well as mistakes made in the reporting of those totals to the secretary of state's office.

    WSJ: There's Nothing Unusual About the Minnesota Recount

  • But, if you take the employment and GDP figures at face value, Britain's companies have barely made up the productivity they lost in the recession, and are far from the path they would have been on if the pre-crisis trend had continued.

    BBC: UK jobs figures bring good news, but also a worry

  • But if you ignore the wilder speculative meanings inspired by the series, there remains a halfway palpable idea: in a period in which gigantic corporations and entire governments devote themselves to promoting made-up realities, people may genuinely wonder what world they are living in.

    NEWYORKER: The Matrix Revolutions

  • "Folks that have done the mea culpa, have stepped up early and said 'I made a mistake', they are not judged as harshly, " says Robert Watson, professor of American studies and author of Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex and Scandal.

    BBC: Petraeus affair: Is this sex scandal different?

  • They are now following up more than 25 calls received from the programme, when Dr Shakoor made an emotional appeal.

    BBC: Essex

  • More than half of Bayer's supervisory board is made up of worker representatives, who want things to stay just as they are.

    FORBES: A headache in Leverkusen

  • Draper told the BBC he believes she genuinely has not yet made up her mind, but he noted that people who publicly announce they are mulling a run, rarely end up deciding against it.

    BBC: Will Sarah Palin run for president?

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