Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.
The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.
Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.
How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?
Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.
We'll have all sorts of crazy signals. And you'd be a damned fool if you didn't look for things you weren't expecting, because that's probably what you're going to see first.
I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
Amen" Lula said and she made the sign of the cross. "I thought you were Baptist." "Yeah, but we don't got any hand signals for an occasion like this.
Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.
A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.
The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.
And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.
For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.
Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.
We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.
The switch from 'steam engines' to 'heat engines' signals the transition from engineering practice to theoretical science.
Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks
Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.
On your daily journeys, listen to those inner signals that help you make the right choices no matter what anyone thinks.
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
We're also more affected by aspirational signals in an offline world where it is more difficult to "hide" and thus indirectly increases the influence from others.
Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an opportunity for innovation.
What is it about the cut of certain clothes that signals 'VIP?' Men's Brioni suits and Charvet shirts are famous for it.
Unanimity is important because it signals that the justices can rise above their differences and interpret the law without partisanship.
The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.
I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.
Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma.
Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.
The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.
The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.
Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.
No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.
My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.
Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.
Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated during the week.
Our bodies are constantly giving us signals about what we can and cannot handle. It's when we choose to ignore them that we can get overworked and be forced to sit out for a while.
Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.
Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.
We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.
My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.
We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.
Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.
I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
In a cashless society, the cash has been converted into numbers, into signals, into electronic currents. In short: Information replaces cash.
All options to produce, transmit, and store electricity should be considered, driven by clear price signals and constructive government policy.
You grow year after year with responsibility, and for me, it's not important who has the armband but that everyone on the pitch gives the right signals.
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
People weren't meaning to be racist, but they didn't know. Action signals change, not intent. So when someone feels like they're not getting a fair shake, you gotta speak on it.
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.
I don't allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals.
My wife was fitted with a coil. For about 18 months I hated it! She used to pick up CB signals.
The list of traceability for some automotive components needs to be rethought for new technologies to send adequate signals about the strengthening of the value chains in North America.
I already shred all my mail. What am I supposed to do now? Use pay phones? Smoke signals? Train pigeons? There's no such thing as privacy anymore.
I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.
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