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True to her word, she was correct almost every time.

Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random lists of words.

The tests are designed to detect subtle changes in mental function, and involve solving puzzles, recalling words and details from stories, and identifying patterns in collections of letters and symbols.

In other words, there's a reason why people like to gamble.

In her experience, people in positions of power or people in finance or engineering do not tend to like the sound of the word.

But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: Flawless.

Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year- old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.

Pleasure is not a dirty word.

If you spend much time with educators and policy makers, you'll hear a lot of the following words: standards, results, skills, self-control, accountability, and so on.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example.

Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.

For example, one who doesn't know the rules a about plagiarism (剽竊) may accidentally use words or ideas without giving proper credit or one who fails to keep careful research notes may unintentionally fail to quote and cite sources as required.

Those are not the most encouraging words to hear just before eating lunch at one of Hong Kong's smartest British restaurants, Alfie's by KEE, but head chef Neil Tomes has more to say.

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For example, maybe you will mark main ideas in yellow, important details in blue and new words in orange.

Underline the key words and phrases

Ellen, you should know better than to take Pam's words for anything.

Her listeners were showing their respect for her by chewing on her words.

And word got around town about the food.

"Pleasure" is not a dirty word.

But the word "gamification" and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

I thought I'd have a word with you first.

Spelling, grammar and punctuation should not be overlooked, and never use capitals to emphasize a word or words in an email.

The word "culture" comes the Latin "colere", which literally means "to cultivate".

The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who 4twere always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.

You can create a table in Microsoft Word or a similar word processor.

In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

In other words, poor and rich both over-exploit the natural world, but for different reasons.

And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word environment has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impossible.

Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.

In other words, it appears that minds give out before their bodies do.

Per-capita local government spendingIn other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending—which may stand for good schools— are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches story.

In other words, our inner caveman is continually looking over his shoulder to see what the rest of the tribe are up to.

The best form of advertising is probably word-of-mouth advertising which occurs when people tell their friends about the benefits of products or services that they have purchased.

And actually, you can easily download this Jacket and change the word to something else, for example, your name or your sweetheart's name.

And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word" environment" has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impos

And with it, I was able to print the first garment, a red Jacket that had the word "Freedom" embedded into it.

Anything like numbers, names, places have to be noted down, but the rest is never translated word for word.

Kwanzaa is a Kiswahili word meaning "the first fruits of the harvest".

Stereotype may sound like a bad word, but there is nothing bad about it.

True to his word, Grune has shaken up the culture here.

Turning every single word into the target language would put too much strain on the interpreter and slow down the whole process too much.

We might use the word "negative" to describe more difficult emotions but it doesn't mean those emotions are bad or we shouldn't have them.

A code uses symbols to replace words, phrases, or sentences.

Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

Also I'm not going to ask you what words mean.

And, put some character into the words.

Another nice thing is that you learn both new words and their use unconsciously, meaning that you will tend to use the words learned/learnt this way in conversations almost automatically.

As usual, the voice of Peter Sallis is absolutely perfect for the role of Wallace, and Gromit is so beautifully brought to life, he can express a huge range of emotions without saying a word.

At the bottom of the paper were these words:" see what you can do when you keep trying? "

Because unabridged dictionaries contain nearly all English words, they are large and heavy.

Before the school year ended, I gave the kids a special gift, t-shirts with the words "verbs are your friends" on them.

Before there was the written word, there was the language of dance.

By mentioning Muhammad Ali's words, the author intends to tell us that motivation allows great athletes to be on the top.

English is a dynamic language that admits new words and recognizes changes in meaning, spelling, and usage of familiar words.

Every page is full of pictures; you just have to read the words to see them.

Furthermore, as many teachers agree, children understand far more when parents watch TV with them, explaining new words and ideas.

His words freed me from my bad dreams.

I have lived by these words.

I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful words.

I was extremely inspired by the elegant way the words sounded.

I was now fascinated by the idea of poetry, words that had the power to make or break a person's world.

If the plot, characters, or word usage is confusing for you, likely won't be able to remember what you read.

In a study describing the technology, the researchers had 100 volunteers type the word "touch" four times using the smart keyboard.

In addition, the information about each word in a pocket dictionary is generally limited.

In recent years an english word "infosphere" has appeared, combing the sense of "information" and "atmosphere".

It ran for just under seven kilometers and allowed people to avoid terrible crowds on the roads above as they travelled to and from word.

Its characters show feelings without words.

I've never exchanged words with those moms beyond small tall, but they wanted to help.

Many editions contain signs, symbols and foreign words.

My interest was aroused only by the fact that the word "poems" appeared in big, hot pink letters.

Nervously facing challenges, I know I will whisper to myself the two simple words "be yourself".

Never at a loss for words, I tried to find things in my life that might qualify for growth.

Ours was a relationship that didn't need a lot of words.

Peter returned the word game for $ 1, 000.

Researchers analyzing word-of-mouth communication—e-mails, web posts and reviews, face-to-face conversations—found that it tended to be more positive than negative, but that didn't necessarily mean people preferred positive news.

Send us a tale about the strange behaviour of unique pets or wildlife in up 300 words.

Stress used to be an almost unknown word, but now that we are used to talking about it, I have found that people are beginning to get stressed about being stressed.

Teresa posted a photo of the chance meeting on a social networking website accompanied by the touching words: ＂what a blessing this young man was to our family! he was so sweet and kind to do this.

The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words.

The dictionary is out of date: many words have been added to the language since it was published.

The underlined word "they" in the third letter refers to cyclists.

The underlined word "sharp" probably means clear and definite.

The underlined word "undoing" probably refers to the pigeons' ruin.

The word is changing faster than ever.

The words a person speaks tell her or his class.

Their child is at the stage where she can say individual words but not full sentences.

Then he typed in the name of the word game.

Then one day — January 1, 2007, to be exact — my husband's doctor uttered an unthinkable word : leukemi?

This means that when they don't know a word, they are going to make a mistake, right in front of everyone.

Those words made me see clearly that when I had fallen short in the past, it was seldom because I had tried and failed.

When children are little we make them read aloud, before the teacher and other children, so that we can be sure they "know" all the words they are reading.

When shown an attractive face and then words with good or bad associations, people responded to positive words faster after viewing an attractive face.

While watching TV, children do not merely absorb words and images.

With a code book, you might write down words that would stand for other words.

You can hide a message by having the first letters of each word spell it out.

You don't mean you're going to read every word, do you?

sexual confusion, economic frustrations , and religious hope-all name together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words:.

In other words, it is up to the buyer, rather than the seller, to decide what to buy.

Charlie McCreevy, a European commissioner, warned the IASB that it did “not live in a political vacuum” but “in the real word” and that Europe could yet develop different rules.

Whereas Greenbergian universality predicts strong co-dependencies between particular types of word-order relations.

The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying traits shared by many language which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.

com, which allow users to combine pictures, words and other media in creative ways and then share them, have the potential to add stickiness by amusing, entertaining and enlightening others.

That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.

But had Entergy kept its word, that debate would be beside the point.

It is this implicit or explicit reference to nature that fully justifies the use of word garden though in a “l(fā)iberated” sense, to describe these synthetic constructions.

It is not by chance that the Funeral March is not the last movement of the Eroica Symphony, but the second, so that suffering does not have the last word.

It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word.

Words degraded to the margin have been justice fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.

The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business–friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation.

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page-including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns-debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.

If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the contest.

How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar you begin to infer a context for the text, for insta4ce, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.

In other words, if you’re going to make a print product, make it for the people who are already obsessed with it.

Now comes word that everyone involved---Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users --as finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.

I truly believe that once you get that first word out everything else will just flow.

In the ever-changing 21st century, even the word "habit" carries a negative implication.

Now comes word that everyone involved—Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users—has finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.

You wanted to say something—the first word—but it just won't come out, it feels like it is stuck somewhere.