A year later, I reached my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I've been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and enormous.

After they were given an invitation to appear live on BBC, the Beatles quickly became famous in Britain with nationwide tours.

Amy, as well as her brothers, was given a warm welcome when returning to the village last week.

Any given performance takes a tour bus full of artists, technical experts, managers, musicians, or writers to create an appealing piece of art.

At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

Between march 10th and march 15h, each winner will be given the specifics of the closing ceremony and the curiosity challenge celebration.

Guests staying at plaza hotel will be given meal tickets worth $36 once they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity.

He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him.

However, Mexicans may use silence when instructions are given by a person in authority rather than be rude to that person by arguing with him or her.

I hope I've given you a clear idea of the schedule for your London weekend.

If special clothes are used, they should truly represent a given period.

In any given story of corruption or disaster, a thoughtful reader may receive not only the immediate reward of indirect experience, but also the delayed reward of information and preparedness.

Instead of promoting the idea of college as a passage from the shelter of the family to autonomy and adult responsibility, universities have given in to the idea that they should provide the same environment as that of the home.

It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out.

It can be concluded that restaurant keepers need not \be overly concerned about ‘bad' tables,\ given that they're profitable.

It had also given me a choice, either to leave that page blank or to keep writing the story with hope.

My color television has given me nothing but a headache.

Offices and work spaces often are not assigned to a given person on a permanent basis.

She had given us clear directions and we were able to find it easily.

Student entries will exhibited and prizes will be given.

The musician along with his band members has given ten performances in the last three months.

The researchers note that attention should be given to \training methods that would prepare volunteers for troublesome situations or provide them with strategies for coping with the problem they do experience\.

The title will be officially given to me at a ceremony in London.

Then I asked him if he had cut down the amount of feed he had given the chickens.

They are given by best tdsb teachers.

This has given me a purpose.

Those given night milk, which contained 10 times the amount of melatonin, were less active and less anxious than those fed with the milk collected during daytime, according to the study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food.

Thus, the keyboard can determine people's identities, and by extension, whether they should be given access to the computer it's connected to—regardless of whether someone gets the password right.

When a new day breaks, the walls have given up their heat and are now cold enough to cool the house during the hot day; at the same time, they warm up again for the night.

When berlin restaurant customers ate in darkness, they couldn't tell how much they'd had: those given extra-large shares ate more than everyone else, but were none the wiser—they didn't feel fuller, and they were just as ready for dessert.

You've given me hope that I can follow my heart.

The humanities and STEM subjects should be given equal importance.

Given the rising investment in college education, parental concern is not surprising, but learning where and when to intervene (干预 ) will help students take more ownership of the outcomes of these increasingly costly educations.

Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households, Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes.

Because boys generally have more acute vision learn best through touch, and are physically more active, they need to be given hands-on lessons where they are allowed to walk around.

Anyone who has patted a dog, stroked a cat, sat under a tree with a pint of beer, given or received a bunch of flowers or chosen to walk through the park on a nice day, understands that.

The reason for these and countless other patterns of social behaviour is that they are controlled by social norms--shared rules or guidelines which prescribe the behavior that is appropriate in a given situation.

It has gradually given way to service industry.

A decorated egg with a bird on it, given to a young married couple, is a wish for children.

Also, mothers may call on their children more often than fathers, given traditional gender norms.

And given the weak job opportunities facing young adults, living at home was part of the private safety net helping young adults to weather the economic storm.

And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.

Beyond my career, my facility with languages has given me a few rare opportunities.

Each session has a theme, and participants are given a variety of materials and prompts and asked to cover surfaces with their thoughts and art.

given that sustained social contacts have been shown to support health and a long life, those wishing to maximize the health value of crafts might consider joining a group of like-minded folks.

given the increasing concern about health care costs for the aging population, Karraker believes policymakers should be aware of the relationship between disease and risk of divorce.

If nothing else, the situation has given my college son and me something to share.

In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.

In the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor.

One had to quit abruptly on a given day,going from about a pack a day to zero.

One of the main theoretical home-security concerns is whether or not a given system is vulnerable to being blocked from working altogether.

Rather, they saw a large chocolate cake and they each were given a slice.

That's especially worrying, she says, given that anorexia results in more deaths than does any other mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

There are tons of on-campus job opportunities, and as a student, you'll automatically be given hiring priority.

This may not be surprising given that this is the age range when women have children.

Understandably, there are concerns about what this means for public finances given the associated health and pension challenges.

When given the choice of either eating food or drinking water, the mice went for the food, the researchers found.

You know, Ben's given up making those terrible faces he used to make.

Most mothers do not aspire to (向往) elite,competitive full-time positions: the Swedish policies have given them the freedom and opportunity to live the lives they prefer.

However,while talking is largely subconscious and rapid, writing is deliberate and slow, Over time,writers took advantage of this and started crafting long-winded sentences such as this one:The whole engagement lasted above 12 hours, till the gradual retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and……\ No one talks like that casually — or should

Employees who receive unfavorable evaluations must also be given attention.

It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages

What kind of problem should be given to students to solve according to Kapur?

In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books, Robert Darn ton, the head of Harvard University's library, argued that because such books are a common resource – the possession of us all – only public, not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them.

The key principle of copyright law has always been that works can be copied only once authors have expressly given their permission,\ says Piers Blofeld, of the Sheil Land literary agency in London

That's to be expected, given what we've been through.

Reporters can tolerate rejection of their ideas if they believe they were given a fair hearing.

Many experts now believe that given the right policies, the effects, though grave, need not be catastrophic.

The ninth-grader thought that his art teacher should have given him a higher grade.

The 1976 copy right act has not prevented these abuses fully, but it has clarified the legal rights of the injured parties and given them an avenue for remedy.

It is a feature of a given culture.

According to scientists, what is another advantage given to girls by nature?

The ad specifications had not been given in detail.

When you look at every possible option, you tend to focus more on what was given up than what was gained.

\AI is hugely exciting,\ she said, \but it has limitations, which present grave dangers given uncritical use.\

Anyway, the next night we were all given another foreign speciality.

Based on my analyses of the data, of the factors that Chetty has highlighted, the following three seem to be most predictive of upward mobility in a given community.

But even when employees are given paid time off, workplace norms and expectations that pressure them to overwork often prevent them from taking it.

But the snail has given the project greater urgency.

Can you perform music that's out of tune with the mood you might be in on a given night?

first, they explain that if a given variable is playing a role in affecting well-being, then we should expect any change in that variable to correlate with the observed changes in well-being.

given that there's now over $1.3 trillion in student loans on the books, it's pretty clear that many students are far from sensible.

given the high price of room and board and the closeness of the school to his family, he chose to live at home and worked between 30 and 40 hours a week while taking a full class schedule.

given the moth's ability also to attack crops like pepper and potatoes, Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria's minister of agriculture, has warned that the pest may \create serious problems for food security\ in the country.

However, given that there is at least some evidence for positive effects from some of these lifestyle changes, plus other benefits apparently unrelated to cognitive decline, Burke was willing to offer some recommendations.

If Apple alters the security model of future iPhones so that even its own engineers' \reasonable assistance\ will not be able to crack a given device when compelled by the government, a precedent set in this case might lose its lasting force.

In fact, they are prescribed and they're given at a certain level, a dosage that is understood by a practitioner who's been trained.

In one of the study's experiments, subjects were given a brief description of a man from Chicago with the last name Williams.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

It works for things as boring as archaeological museums, where people were given eye-tracking glasses and instructed either to take photos or not.

Now a new study has provided another contribution to the debate, uncovering strong evidence that adolescent well-being in the United States really is experiencing a decline and arguing that the most likely cause is the electronic riches we have given them

Now, given the right data, machines are going to outperform humans at tasks like this.

Relative poverty is generally considered to be a household income level which is below a given proportion of average family income.

That suggests that catch - up sleep may undo some but not all of the damage that sleep 32 deprivation causes, which is encouraging, given how many adults don't get the hours they need each night.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

The winning programs were able to match the grades given by human teachers.

These prior efforts all examined the degree to which different environmental, social, and geographic variables correlated with a number of languages found in a given location.

They fear I will default on any business loan I'm given.

When college students were reminded of a time they had been excluded in a social setting, they compensated by exaggerating their number of friends—unless they were first given tasks that caused them to interact with their phone as if it had human qualitie

A survey by Barna research group found the top reason given by Americans for the fake news phenomenon is \ reader error,\ more so than made- up stories or factual mistakes in reporting.

At any given point, I should have deep work scheduled for roughly the next month.

Even so, employers complain they aren't given all the workers they need.

given the advantages of electronic money, you might think that we would move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically.

given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year—a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.

How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it.

In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like

The lesson is not that you should make your personal life an open book, but rather, when given the option to offer up details about yourself or painstakingly conceal them, you should just be honest.

The readiness of the rats to befriend the social robot was surprising given its minimal design.

Then the kids were handed chocolate coins, and given a chance to share them with an anonymous child.

Thinking of time as a resource to be maximized means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal.

time, rather than intention, has given them legitimacy.