Roughly speaking, life nudges the universe so as to allow light to circumnavigate the universe first in one direction, and then another.
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If teachers find themselves flagging or their students in a groove, this book couldnudgethem onto a new spiral.
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But for all that, they fed increasing amounts of coffee to a thirsty international market, nudging past sugar by the early 1830s.
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A quantisation algorithm nudged each onset towards the closest quarter note, eighth note, or quarter note triplet.
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Nevertheless, it may have been the gestural component that provided the initialnudge, as it were, toward a general dominance of the right hand.
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Rather, the relation is likely to be probabilistic, anudgerather than a push.
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Second, we have obtained evidence to suggest that marital and parent - child relationships can play a causal role in nudging the child along the path toward adaptation or dysfunction.
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Protestants contribute to the deliberation about access when theynudgethe analysis of moral notions in the direction of the story they love to tell and struggle to live.
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Plausibility is maximized when we identify not just structural ambiguities that allow for reanalysis, but also extra-structural factors thatnudgethe interpretation in the direction of a particular analysis.
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The attack on the private sector, moreover, nudged the state in the direction of politically motivated public-policy projects, which compelled it to look for increased sources of revenue.
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How might we wiselynudgethis future?
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Now the clock is in part to be nudged back: compulsory recognition of trade unions is to be reintroduced.
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For years now every government have been nudging and hinting at the universities to cut expenditure.
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Without having that apparatus, my judgment of the direction our policy should take is that it should be nudged towards reflation.
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Now oil is nudging $27 a barrel, and the increases cannot be hidden.
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