But we cannot ignore the dispiriting figures that tell the broader, non-anectodal story of women in the professions.
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We cannot ignore the fact that the workplace is in flux and employees are demanding more flexibility and better work-life balance.
Also, we cannot ignore our cyber-infrastructure, such as building a 21st Century wireless broadband system that will power the companies of the future.
But, he told peers, "we cannot ignore the question of finance" and he underlined that the government was against any real-terms increase in the EU budget.
"We cannot ignore that once again it has taken a tragedy to reveal problems in our vast, varied and numerous federal databases, " said the senior Democrat on the panel, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi.
So this is a problem we cannot afford to accept and we cannot afford to ignore.
"It is a country, an economy and a trading nation that we cannot afford to ignore, let alone forget about, " he said.
And we cannot continue to ignore the clean energy challenge or cede global leadership in the emerging industries of the 21st century.
But what we simply cannot do is to ignore those fundamentals.
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And the reality is that we cannot afford to continue to ignore the group that generally is responsible for the election and that is the white male.
"While I don't want to see the wholesale slaughter of wildlife, I recognise that we cannot afford to sit back and ignore the very real threat posed by bovine TB to animal health and the farming industry, " he said.
However, we cannot on one hand promote evidence-based medicine and on the other hand ignore what we do not like.
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And we cannot afford to just past them over, ignore them and act as if they don't exist.
We cannot turn this fledgling recovery into sustained growth with policies and solutions that ignore a third of our job creators.
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But now we, too, must ignore the voices who tell us that the world cannot change.
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