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The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can 'be assigned to all positions for which they are qualified, except that women shall be excluded from assignment to units below the brigade level whose primary mission is to engage in direct combat on the ground.'
Cynthia Dill /
Administration
Adopted
Clinton
Combat
Direct
Policy
Qualified
Units
Assigned
Below
Brigade
Clinton Administration
Engage
Except
Mission
Positions
Primary
Says
Shall
Whose
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People from different backgrounds may not have natural affinity, but when the Word of God is treated right and the Holy Spirit is allowed to engage, it can bring together things, people, backgrounds, histories, races, colors, and cultures and hold them together in a way that natural affinity may not be able to do.
Tony Evans / Pastor
Able
Affinity
Backgrounds
Different
Different Backgrounds
Holy Spirit
May
Natural
Spirit
Together
Treated
Allowed
Bring
Colors
Cultures
Engage
Hold
Histories
Word
Races
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Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and are really fond of them. There are also times when children need to be left alone to learn to be independent and to encourage their imaginary friends.
Tony Buzan / Author
Childcare
Imaginary
Stability
Stimulation
Teachers
Cousins
Encourage
Engage
Fond
Grandparents
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From building robots and video games to coding apps that solve a problem in your community, or 3D printing in fashion tech, it is important that we explore different ways to engage girls in STEAM and also ensure that there are many, and different, women role models that will inspire our girls to pursue STEAM careers.
Rana El Kaliouby /
Girl
Apps
Careers
Community
Different Ways
Fashion
Games
Inspire
Models
Our Community
Printing
Problem
Pursue
Robots
Role Models
Steam
Video
Women Your Important
Coding
Engage
Ensure
Explore
Tech
Video Games
Ways
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The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.
John Cornyn / United States Senator
Health
Activity
Chosen
Commerce
Congress
Court
Coverage
Doe
Obamacare
Supreme
Supreme Court
Unconstitutional
Unprecedented
Use
American
Avoid
Clause
Engage
Forces
Health Insurance
Individuals
Insurance
Precisely
Purchase
Require
Ruled
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I do engage veterans. I meet with the veterans' service organizations monthly. It's a direct, no-holds-barred discussion. I travel to their conventions, where I speak to the veterans membership. I do travel. I've been to all 50 states. When I do, I engage veterans locally. So I get direct feedback from those veterans.
Eric Shinseki / Former United States Secretary Of Veterans Affairs
Travel
Conventions
Direct
Discussion
Feedback
Membership
Speak
States
Engage
Organizations
Locally
Meet
Monthly
Service
Veterans
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Social media has allowed fans and celebrities to really engage and have an organic interaction with each other. Ever since I've had the opportunity to use social media, all the way back to the days of chat rooms, I found I was able to really understand what the fans wanted, communicate with them, and share my lifestyle.
Christina Milian / Actress
Communicate
Interaction
Lifestyle
Rooms
Social Media
Celebrities
Chat
Engage
Organic
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Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
Jerry Brown / Governor Of California
Opportunity
Technology
Automation
Boon
Creative
Destiny
Guidance
Leisure
Providing
Engage
Raising
Shared
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Katalyst is a merger of three industries. A piece of us is connected to ad agencies. Because we get the complex overlay of the social Web, we know how to engage an audience and how to make entertainment for the social Web. And we know how to gain and activate and retain an audience. So we create social networks for brands.
Ashton Kutcher / Actor
Activate
Agency
Brands
Connected
Entertainment
Gains
Ad
Agencies
Complex
Networks
Engage
Gain
Industries
Merger
Retain
Social Networks
Web
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
Gail Kelly / Businesswoman
Age
Able
Acknowledge
Communicate
Debate
Digital
Digital Age
Made
Mistake
Public Relations
Visible
Decisions
Why
Authentic
Behind
Public
Engage
Forward
Hide
Leaders
Place
Move
Move Forward
Relations
Requires
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Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don't view them as equals.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Deny
Disillusioned
Economic
Extreme Poverty
International
Poor
Poor People
Poverty
Tiny
Best Hope Chance
Extreme
Aid
Became
Engage
Equals
Global
Increasingly
Loans
Studies
View
Suffer
Systematically
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Being a woman, we talk about equal pay all the time. We're not talking about if you're black or if you are Latina. I would like to get back to that and improving the relationship between the police community and the community of color. I don't know exactly all the right things to say, but I want to engage in that conversation.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Relationship
Color
Conversation
Equal
Equal Pay
Improving
Latina
Not Talking
Pay
Talking
Engage
Exactly
Right Things
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
Aaron Koblin / Visual Artist
Computers
Imagination
Technology
Computer
Creating
Data
Dialogue
Fascinated
Found
Humans
Machines
Stories
Use
Young
Started
Just
Rules
Always
Allow
Around
Been
Interested
How
Engage
Instructions
Specifically
Using
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I've had something sort of like angel cards where you pull out an angel card that turns out, like, grandmother was watching over me. And I believe, in some way, I haven't been brave enough to engage with tarot cards mostly because they always end on a bad note. I'm sure if I understood tarot cards more I wouldn't be as fearful.
Sarah Snook /
Angel
Brave
Enough
Fearful
Tarot
Tarot Cards
Turns
Understood
Always Enough Believe
Sure
Bad
Card
Engage
Over
Mostly
Note
Pull
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We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y.
Amy Jo Martin / Author
Environmental
Audience
Brands
Campaigns
Causes
Charitable
Components
Environmental Issues
Humans
Issues
Connect
Engage
Generation
Integrate
Messaging
More And More
Themes
Underlying
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
Jesse Jackson / Activist
Activity
Convinced
Focus
Moving
Shadow
Sunlight
Threatened
Life Focus I Am
Engage
Generation
Powers
Preoccupied
Shadows
Tent
Toward
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Charisma seems to be more about the intoxicating quality that you have on other people, as opposed to presence, which is more about the self in relation to others, and how you feel you represented yourself in a situation, and how you were able to engage. So it's less about how others see you and more about how you see yourself.
Amy Cuddy / Social Psychologist
Charisma
Relation
Engage
Intoxicating
Opposed
Presence
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For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.
Jane Mcgonigal / Game Designer
Ability
Care
Challenges
Difficult
Gamer
Real
Real Life
Most
Life Time Power
Back
Bring
Favorite
Day
Engage
Still
Hour
Letting
Notice
Playing
Relationships
Strengthen
Virtual
While
Worlds
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The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.
Tony Bates /
Communication
Barriers
Boundaries
Lessons
Moving
Seeking
Setting
Tools
Traditional
Video
Teachers
Beyond
Classes
Engage
Enrich
More And More
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I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.
Greg Graffin / Musician
Faith
Believe
Debate
Doe
Experimentation
Facts
Great Hope
Humanistic
Observation
Process
Solve
Verification
World
God Faith Hope
God Hope Great
Arrive
Based
Exist
Engage
Major
Problems
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There are a lot of actors out there who are able to engage with something in themselves which isn't necessarily their brain. But personally I find it very intellectually satisfying: doing your research and then burrowing as deeply into character as you can. I'm a naturally inquisitive person, too, and acting does feed into that.
Rory Kinnear /
Able
Acting
Brain
Character
Inquisitive
Research
Satisfying
Actor
Naturally
Feed
Deeply
Engage
Intellectually
Personally
Themselves
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If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.
Joshua Foer / Journalist
Degrade
Going Away
Information
Locks
Memories
Return
Across
Naturally
Deeply
Each Time
Engage
Go Away
Later
Lock
Network
Stick
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The connect that I have with the audience comes from my hard work and sincerity towards my craft and also because of the opportunities that I have had. I have been able to engage with my audiences. They observe my performances minutely. They think I will do some magic on screen. They like me because I don't do over-the-top acting.
Pankaj Tripathi /
Acting
Audience
Hard Work
Magic
Over The Top
Sincerity
Work Hard Work Me
Connect
Craft
Engage
Towards
Performance
Observe
Opportunities
Screen
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Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
Seth Godin / Author
Blow
Breathe
Different Kinds
Process
Scary
Wind
Years
Across
Chances
Engage
Lake
Straight
Sit
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What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
Carly Fiorina / Executive Officer
Bipartisan
Choices
Conversation
Entitlement
Long
Ought
People
Thinking
Alternative
Together Long People
American People
Engage
Solution
Table
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When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.
Steven Pinker / Psychologist
Hypocrisy
Innuendo
Lines
Long
Mean
Simple
Universal
Vagueness
Time Truth Long
Engage
Expect
Truth Time Long
Lay
Manner
Plain
Profess
Role
Same Time
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Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.
Antonin Scalia / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Teacher
Believe
Children
Destructive
Homosexual
Immoral
Lifestyle
Partners
Persons
Teachers
Conduct
Engage
Openly
Protecting
Schools
View
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There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as a quite free society. It's also true to say that the powers that be have so much control over how people think that there are fewer and fewer people who make use of the rights and information available to them.
Norman Finkelstein / Political Scientist
American Society
Available
Contradictory
Fewer
Free Society
Mark
Range
Tendencies
Society Free People
Activities
Engage
Powers
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Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.'
George C. Wolfe / Playwright
Failure
Huge
Revival
Questions
Engage
Equation
Smartest
Solved
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I'm still very interested in the things that happened in the '80s and the '70s because I think that they were very important years for Nigeria. In the '80s, we were under a military dictatorship for quite a while, and I think that the way we engage with our country as citizens was shaped in many ways by the events that took place in that time.
Ayobami Adebayo /
Dictatorship
Nigeria
Engage
Shaped
Quite A While
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I do think that if you've got a compelling argument to make in this country, going on television, going online, being on social media, you've got a broader ability to be effective at communicating your message if you engage a wide span of platforms rather than just standing on the House floor in the middle of the night, speaking to an empty room.
Matt Gaetz /
Ability
Compelling
Empty
Media
Middle
Night
Online
Platforms
Social Media
Standing
Television
Wide
Broader
Effective
Engage
Floor
Room
Span
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Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.
Kate Brown / Governor Of Oregon
Assessment
Participation
Purpose
Rights
School Districts
Consequences
Aware
Diminishes
Student
Districts
Educators
Engage
Ensure
Parents
Local
Local School
Notice
Obligations
Receive
Value
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In the era of Donald Trump the echoes of Westboro are undeniable: the division of the world into Us and Them; the vilification of compromise; the knee-jerk expulsion of insiders who violate group orthodoxy; and the demonization of outsiders and the inability to substantively engage with their ideas, because we simply cannot step outside of our own.
Megan Phelps-Roper /
Compromise
Division
Echoes
Inability
Orthodoxy
Outsiders
Trump
Simply
Donald
Donald Trump
Engage
Group
Outside
Step
Undeniable
Violate
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