How To Use Promo In A Sentence
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Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
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But amongst this chaos, Stewart has beamed down to promote Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th instalment of the feature film series.
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The baronetage of Nova Scotia was devised in 1624 as a means of promoting the "plantation" of that province, and James announced his intention of creating a hundred baronets, each of whom was to support six colonists for two years (or pay 2000 marks in lieu thereof) and also to pay 1000 marks to
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Promoted to Commander/05 (22 October 2009), currently in refresher flight training (jets) with Training Wing
JOSEPH ANTHONY ROSSI
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Espion subscribers also get neat features like text messaging, and can receive promotional messages offering them shopping discounts and club invites.
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We (the Western public) regard picnics as highly advantageous to health and beauty, promoting social sympathy and high-toned alimentiveness, advancing the interests of the community and the ultimate welfare of the nation.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870
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The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast
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Measures designed to promote and protect local educational values could be labelled as ‘barriers to trade’.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.
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The viewer may be a teenage girl, even though the advertisement promotes Viagra.
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Opera is different from the mainstream entertainment industry, which uses packaging and promotion to increase popularity.
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Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these.
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The 22-year-old arrived without huge fanfare or any of the media lobbying that normally accompanies the promotion of a fresh face.
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She talks to doctors and parents about the risks, finding that a number object to the jab and fear it will promote promiscuity.
The Sun
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In Chinas modernization drive, the misunderstanding on "Middlebrow" is not beneficial to the understanding and the promotion of the core ideology of Chinas traditional culture.
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At a minimum, the Bush administration had better step up its promotion of the economy's current sizzling performance.
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At the end of the novel she marries the stockjobber, a leading promoter of the American railway scheme.
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Its addition in minute amounts to the nucleoprotein tumor fraction, was expected to suppress the formation of the fibrillar halo if nucleic acids rather that the protein were responsible for the nerve growth promoting effect elicited by this fraction.
Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
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The American liked him instantly, signed him to his promotional company and used him as a sparring partner.
Times, Sunday Times
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Promotion will mean that I'm immediately above him in rank.
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A former president of the Soil Association, Helen has been actively involved in promoting the benefits of organic methods to the farming community.
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All this mysticism promoted a general mistrust of alchemists.
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On the promotion campaign across 11 cities, the Dew Adventure Games with daredevil feats by international skate boarders and BMX bike riders drew huge crowds.
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As if a lentivirus from a genetically modified cocoa plant is going to implant a promoter in out cells that will lead to cancer.
A Genetic Quest for Better Chocolate - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Is deceiving a patient about her true medical condition, in the interest of promoting an optimistic attitude, likely to increase her chances of recovery?
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Prestwich Carnival at the weekend will hold a large parade and carnival in St Mary's Park and through Prestwich, which will be promoting green transport.
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His father was a hairdresser and beautician, his mother an astrologer and former dancer who also acted as a promoter for women's wrestling.
Times, Sunday Times
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However long the odds, he couldn't bring himself to turn away all those labors of hope and industry and self-promotion.
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Machiavelli was a chief target of the philoso - phes because he preached an amoralistic selfishness which promoted despotic arbitrariness.
MACHIAVELLISM
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The main purpose of an external house journal is to promote the organization, its products, and its services.
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Speaking of rounding tight corners, the Daily News reports that some messengers attempted to promote cycling in Queens this past weekend by holding an alleycat called "BLVDS of DEATH:
Archive 2010-09-01
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The technology will send out text messages with promotional codes offering discounts for products.
Computing
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The ideas they discuss and promote centre on agreements between schools and businesses committed to achieving enhanced employability for students.
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Bon sinon mercredi ou jeudi (mais j'vais prendre mercredi si jeudi j'suis tout seul ca va pas et 'simple) faut que j'fasse une affiche qui pete bien pour la promo du poisson ....
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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He also set up a research institute to promote socialist policies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smaller than this Common Burnet is the Salad Burnet, _Poterium sanguisorba, quod sanguineos fluxus sistat_, a useful [431] styptic, which is also cordial, and promotes perspiration.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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He was always keen to promote works by contemporary composers and also favoured neglected works.
Times, Sunday Times
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Damian Harris knows about the potential power of a good promo video.
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It includes strategies for promoting high academic achievement as well as off-setting problems of alienation, disengagement, and emotional distress.
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ThinkProgressPromotesSocialism, care to tell me where this magical hospital that writes off chemo is so I can call and verify this?
Think Progress » Democrats Need To Pass A Comprehensive Health Care Bill
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Think Progress Appearing on Imus In the Morning to promote his new book, State of Emergency, Pat Buchanan asserted that the Mexican government has a “direct program” to reannex “the seven states of the American Southwest.”
Think Progress » Buchanan: Mexico Conspiring To ‘Re-Annex’ Seven Southwest States
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Best Buy is promoting its Geek Squad, promising shoppers before they buy that complicated electronic thingamajig that its employees will hold their hands through the installation process and beyond.
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Promotion in the first year is only given in exceptional circumstances .
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This would be the blueprint for all schooling: I'd promote anti-racism and religious tolerance so pupils knew what it was.
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Equally, it must promote collegial decision-making in its organisational structure, based on broad consultation with and involvement of different social constituencies.
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While many parents do not appreciate the idea of promoting these collectible items with snack items, some do not think it is such a bad idea.
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Their makers hope the phones will become popular promotional giveaways, like phone cards emblazoned with corporate logos.
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A high percentage of their investmetns were tax shelters andthey are featured in the 2003 and 2005 Senate reports on abusive tax shelter promotion.
Updates On The Clintons' Tax Returns
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Animation is also being used to create content for ad films and commercials, as also for television promos and montage sequences.
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You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
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He will be fighting on the undercards of the main BBC promoters during his first six fights.
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From the tip of the headland you are treated to a view of more unblemished promontories dotted along the coast.
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They could decide who got the promotion, the apartment, the new car, or the postgraduate course abroad.
OUTCAST
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Kazzer was a big deal before anybody even knew who he was - in the months preceding the release of his first CD, Pedal to the Metal, he was already on a Canada-wide tour to promote his brand of good-time rock & hip-hop.
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Filming the new promo for the show.
The Sun
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The new job is not a promotion as such but it has good prospects.
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Steels usually contain at least 0.3% manganese, which acts in a three-fold manner: it assists in deoxidation of the steel, prevents the formation of iron sulfide inclusions, and promotes greater strength by increasing the hardenability of the steel.
CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries
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According to the way of thinking promoted by Horowitz and the Students for Academic Freedom, however, my forbearing critique would hardly have been enough to absolve the stain of the readings.
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The captain was promoted to the rank of major.
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Does your masonry promote multitheism or does it promote monotheism?
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We would urge celebrities and icons not to support energy dense foods and to make sure it is a genuinely healthy product they promote.
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When we promote equality, we need to make sure that we are promoting equality of opportunity.
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The forum gives anti-globalization activists and civil society leaders a chance promote progressive causes.
At Close of World Social Forum, Activists Draw Inspiration from Uprisings
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Later she was passed over for promotion to a position for which she had been regarded as a certainty.
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Activated ROCK induces neurite retraction [5] while selective ROCK inhibitor, Y-27632, as well as ROCK dominant negative mutants promote neurite formation
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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By training dental practitioners to make space judgments and subject arrangements in art painting, the practitioner can promote the ability of reconstruction, which is essential in esthetic dentistry.
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Helium balloons embossed with the words "great car for little money" promoted Volkswagen's newest four-seater model, Up!.
Auto Makers Focus on Bright Side in Frankfurt
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Here Bentham clearly ascribes the felicific tendency to action tokens, and he equates an action's felicific tendency with the extent to which it promotes utility.
Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy
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If he's hoping to gain promotion, he will have to pull his socks up.
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Let's see more baked potatoes and lentil soup on school menus, fruit juices being promoted instead of branded fizzy drinks.
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To entice foreign visitors, four London buses made a promotional tour of the Continent.
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Sites promoted as tourist attractions are usually signposted from main roads; look out for brown-coloured ‘tourist signs’.
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Our technical experts at the lab also work with our sales force to promote our products and to help our customers improve their products as well.
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Some may also promote healthy sleep, lessen anxiety, and soothe pain.
The Sun
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Again, he pours scorn on racialist mythology but, in his steadfastly conservative way, refuses to become histrionically sanctimonious on the matter, preferring studied contempt to self-promoting outrage.
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The government must promote racial equality.
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In that same period, the recalled lapel pins were distributed as promotions to employees at electronics and game stores around the country.
Nintendo recalls 71,000 character pins that violate lead standard
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Yet the potential role of friendly bacteria in promoting digestive health is becoming increasingly unassailable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Wilshaw promotes the idea of replacement of the damaged stones with reclaimed ashlars.
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He says New Zealand is a country trying to promote itself as a leading golf destination, so the last thing the sport needs is its number one professional slating a leading course.
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Whether Terence O'Neill was committed to promoting the sorts of reforms which might have satisfied the Catholic minority is unknown.
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He's intent on getting promotion, and no one's going to stop him!
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She is in line for promotion.
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If Linda gets that promotion, we'll never hear the end of it.
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He said they were anxious to promote the development of the concert hall.
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The federal government has been aggressively promoting bilingualism in the public service since the 1960s.
Globe and Mail
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For the middle classes Britain meant business and they wanted constitutional change to prevent revolution not promote it.
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Perhaps his most ambitious project is Hitlab.com, launched last September, an online community where aspiring artists can promote and sell their music outside record-label auspices.
Akon's Recession-Proof Tune
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Experimental evidence suggests that dairy could also promote the conversion of precancerous lesions or mutated cells into invasive cancers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Network promotes the use of model organisms and intends to provide a forum for meetings, workshops and other activities.
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He protected and promoted his clients while making them fortunes from red-top newspapers.
Times, Sunday Times
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I never saw a BBC journalist actively promote his own political agenda.
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Plus, too many black children see school as a place where they're supposed to get reprimanded and putting black educators as main executioner; we're essentially fortifying centuries-old traditions of promoting blacks as overseer in the proverbial plantation.
Jose Vilson: Why Black/Latino Male Teachers aren't as Effective in the Classroom... Yet
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Barot A, Kleckner N (2008) Yeast Pch2 promotes domainal axis organization, timely recombination progression, and arrest of defective recombinosomes during meiosis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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(In fact, a 90 percent windfall profit tax on the bailout-created profits of the 19 largest banks would be the ideal way to promote a robust caulker jobs program.)
Les Leopold: Clinton's Cash for Caulkers? Not enough Economic Insulation
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They hoped to use their time today to talk about ways of promoting cultural diversity and social inclusion.
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Even cheapskates would never suggest that you skip special dinners out, such as those celebrating anniversaries or job promotions.
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Should they too be cross-questioned by new EU thought police about their fitness to work in companies committed under countless EU directives to celebrating diversity and promoting equality?
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Because a special preemie is in my heart, I was instantly committed to helping promote the event.
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2009 » November
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It's just not realistic to expect a promotion so soon.
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Advertising is often the most effective method of promotion.
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Asked why he promoted such libidinous revelry, he replied, “Why should the devil have all the good times?”
A Renegade History of the United States
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To help alleviate a shortfall of 1,900 captains, the U.S. Army will promote officers earlier to the rank of captain beginning in October.
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Bang went his hopes of promotion.
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However, there are some excellent 'old labour 'style policies I'd vote for, unfortunately allied to post-modern, psuedo-sciencey rubbish that reads like the ramblings of a drugged horse (halts to stem cell research, animal experimentation and a promotion of alternative therpaies etc).
The murky politics of the Green Party
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Ideally, the drainpipe is sloped or inclined approximately 2% or ¼ inch per foot of length, to keep the waste in the pipe, wet and amid liquid to lubricate and promote its slow but constant movement along the length of the pipe.
Toilet Paper and Mexican Plumbing
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Still, Congress has been slow to take up arms against foolish laws that promote pollution.
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Ads constantly bombard us with the notion that we will be irresistible if we purchase the product being promoted.
Christianity Today
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The bureau will aim to promote further ‘internationalization’ of Tokyo's Haneda airport and more signboards and pamphlets written in foreign languages.
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His new job was a sideways move rather than a promotion.
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This is part of an emerging science called neuromarketing, which uses the techniques of cognitive neuroscience to try and evaluate and design better product promotions.
Mind Hacks: February 2006 Archives
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They have featured on Classic FM and Radio 4, as well as being praised for their work promoting trans and non-binary representation.
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Such standardization and rationalization of diverse local practices was promoted by lawyers who were the agents of change.
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Do you believe in your unique difference enough to promote yourself into a major brand personality?
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And it's so emotive, which isn't much helped by Richard Dawkins rather inflaming the issue to promote atheism.
News from the House of Sticks -
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In 1990 Papert's theory of constructionism Papert's word, a combination of Piaget's term constructivism with the word construction and the logo programming language which he promoted were what radical teachers turned to in their efforts to transform School.
Archive 2006-03-01
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If any book is unavailable the Promoter reserves the right to select and supply an alternative book.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lavender oil is a natural disinfectant, antiseptic, and antibiotic which promotes healing and prevents scarring, and is especially effective for the treatment of burns and scalds.
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Of more importance to marketers, however, is measuring the effectiveness of the promotional activity.
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Care for all aspects of the cultural landscape was promoted alongside increases in production and improvements in employment opportunities within agriculture and forestry.
Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations
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He promoted the Virgin as its protectress, commissioning a hymn in her honour, and incurred criticism from Bruno of Querfurt for ‘favouring the Roman people above all others with money and honours'.
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The escarpment has been shaped into numerous irregularities, indentations, and promontories, and is pierced by thalweg ravines, gorges, and rocky passages connecting the plain and plateau.
Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
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The popularity of diversified operations promotes the origination and development of segment report.
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In some cases, the method will be used to switch off rogue genes that promote conditions such as heart failure or cancer.
Times, Sunday Times
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If I could propose a line, it would be that hostile workplace sexual harassment exists where the environment is so severe as to be functionally equivalent to discrimination in hiring or promotion.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Just What Speech Does “Hostile Environment Harassment” Law Restrict?
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Without a foundation of love, these gifts risk promoting self-gain and self-aggrandizement.
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It has been my experience, and sometimes misfortune, that rubber grips attract and hold moisture underneath, promoting rust.
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The highest GOX expression levels (1552 units of secreted protein per gram dry cell weight) were achieved with the strain K. marxianus CBS 6556, using an episomal system in which the INU1 promoter and terminator were used to drive heterologous gene expression, together with the INU1 prepro sequence, which was employed to drive secretion of the enzyme.
BioMed Central - Latest articles
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The promotion of Russell instead of Sarah really made the sparks fly.
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The Vatican named Father Mode as "postulator," or promoter of the cause, and a tribunal was established to interview witnesses to Father Capodanno's life.
A Chaplain's Chaplain
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It shows local shoppers that their custom is valued and also serves to promote our county as a warm, friendly and hospitable place to visit.
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But the more relevant argument is that religion promotes out-group mentality in an age of interdependence when we can't afford to surrender to ancient instincts.
Ted Cadsby: Defying Our Maker: What The New Atheists Miss
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Spillover would ensure that political elites marched inexorably towards the promotion of integration.
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Championship strugglers Gillingham made it a third match without defeat at promotion-chasing Sheffield United.
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he got the promotion by behaving deviously
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They know that forms of discipline which reward good behaviour, rather than punishing the bad, are more effective, safer and promote better relationships at home.
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Keeping the performer at ease is usually entrusted to the agent and concert promoter.
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We launch a big advertising campaign to promote our new toothpaste.
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The idea that television can be used as a tool for promoting education and scientific temper among children has been popularised by the SIET, which is under the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development.
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Sportsbridge, a new nonprofit organization designed to promote athleticism for women, had brought the pair together.
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Most SMEs planned to take a mixed approach combining productivity and cost-saving measures (such as adoption of Software-as-a-Service and increased outsourcing – see my posts here and here) alongside promotional and revenue-generating tactics (such as e-marketing and search engine optimisation).
The internet as a lifeline for SMEs « pwcom 2.0
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Graphic organizers may be used in conjunction with synectics to promote learning and understanding.
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The former cardinal is now very happy to have been promoted to such a high position, knowing he will now be remembered forever.
2009 December 04 « The BookBanter Blog
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New people to the area or indeed anyone with an interest in promoting the fastest most skilled field game in the world are welcome to attend.
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He had massive pop hits sometimes without any promotion at all.
Times, Sunday Times
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He became a pilot in 1921 and was eventually promoted to lieutenant colonel during World War II.
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The mortgage interest deduction promotes home ownership.
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He had been promoted to captain, and later he was brevetted major for ‘gallant and meritorious service’.
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Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts, and in particular promoted the neo-romantics.
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Promoting sign language would also help to bring the hearing and hearing - impaired worlds Chalet added.
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By retiring officers unfit for active service, this group attempted to revolutionize the navy's traditional system of promotion.
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Pinching leggy plants promotes stronger stems and better flowers.
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Their underlying idea is no different than that promoted by revisionist governments around the world.
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In the third year of the campaign, small stores offered special deals and promotions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once you gain the promontory of grandparenthood, these things last for only short whiles, not for 20 straight years like they used to.
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a meeting to promote trade between Taiwan and the U.K.
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However, die-hard Simpsons fans are boycotting the promotion, upset that each box of Krusty O's doesn't come with a jagged metal Krusty O that will hospitalise them in the same way that Bart was in episode 125.
Now The Pagans Gun For Homer Simpson
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What he did was wrong, but ok, its over, let them move on. rihanna is constantly saying how she wants to be a role model for these girls, buttruth is that if the get out of the situation of domestic violence, theyll sink right back in. she dresses half naked (her white bandaged body @ the award show) and she has gun tatoos and has guns in her her music videos. so shes promoting fire arm then. shes tryign to make him look like a monster, he is just a man. she played her part in the situation, and i just think its time people stop talkin about this. theres no progress in regressing!
ABC Yanks Chris Brown “Good Morning America” Performance
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Promoting the town as a tourist attraction is to be one of the council's main objectives over the next 12 months.
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He is now a nightclub promoter.
Times, Sunday Times
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It will then be used as a promotional video to give to parents who are thinking of sending their children to the school.
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Certain training techniques can take your resistance program to the next level, promoting greater muscle gain, jolting your metabolism, pushing you past a plateau, supercharging your motivation and so much more.
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The programme was set up in July 1999 to promote international trade in Europe.
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The government has promoted the small firm and the enterprise culture.
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Digitalis from the foxglove plants used by an old woman in Shropshire, England was analyzed and promoted for heart disease by Dr. William Withering in 1785 and was still widely used in herbal form until the 1950's.
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The bookstore has also produced a range of other items to go with the series, including stationery, notebooks, coasters and calendars, and is running an in-store competition to promote the launch.
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In recent years, the 64 year-old mother of six took a pivotal community leadership role, promoting reconciliation.
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Planetary characteristics are defined by these humoural temperaments where, as in nature, warmth and moisture promote health and vitality whilst cold and dryness are conducive to decay.
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Most books are dopier than television or movies or even advertising (many books tend to be just collateral promotions or the lesser offspring of dopey television, movies, and advertising).
Boycott Books!
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The government has set up a special economic zone to promote private enterprise.
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Closer investigation revealed that all of those messages were bounced spams promoting an online casino in Costa Rica.
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Grazing promotes species diversity, which is desired.
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Protecting dictators for geopolitical gains, flouting international laws to protect themselves and lying to their people to justify wars do not help to promote liberal democracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile Hoxsey struck oil in Texas and used his riches to promote his burgeoning clinic and finance his court battles.
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To pledge you need the barcode from one of their promotional packs, but no purchase is necessary - you can simply write down the barcode when you're in the supermarket.
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Objective: promotion of international collaboration in education, science and culture.
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The essence of these reforms is to further promote and facilitate the making of agreements at the workplace level.
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The film was launched with some inspired, and surreal, promotional stunts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The NCAA's motivation for promoting walking safaris is primarily an ecological one.
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We arrived in Manhattan two days before the ceremony for some readings and other promotional appearances.
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Officials said there was widespread agreement on the need to promote growth by cutting government spending.
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Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts, and in particular promoted the neo-romantics.
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The meeting was hastily summoned to resolve the dispute over the promotional rights of the tournament when two Cape Town promoters vied to stage it.
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Page 394 coursing through the green plains, and dark promontories, or obtuse projections of the side-long acclivities, alternately advancing or receding on the verge of the illumined native fields, to the utmost extent of sight; the summits of the acclivities afford, besides the forest trees already recited, Halesia, Ptelea, Circis, Cornus Florida and Amorpha.
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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Fixed wages and lack of promotion act as a disincentive to employees.
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The Under-18 team went on to be crowned champions and the club's Wharfedale League team was promoted to the Second Division.
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Our approach is to promote awareness of the duties the Regulations impose.
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Central to the latest McCain drive is an attempt to use against Mr. Obama the huge crowds and excitement he has drawn, including on his foreign trip last week, by promoting a view of him as more interested in attention and adulation than in solving the problems facing American families.
The Early Word: Whose Narrative Is It, Anyway? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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I could either tread water until I was promoted, which looked to be a few years away, or I could change what I was doing.
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He is still involved in voluntary work promoting local enterprise.sentence dictionary
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Despite the deluge of World Cup promotions and advertising campaigns, Walkers' heavy spending and football tie-ins appear to have cut through the advertising clutter.
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It doesn't make the sting of defeat any less painful, and there are some who think it's all over, but the campaign has succeeded in whetting the media's appetite for a spectacular showdown on March 4, which is already being promoted as a sequel to Super Tuesday.
Hillary Finished? - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
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The mechanisms are not well defined, but iron and tin will promote the photo-oxidation of the silk fibroin.
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This will be the third such tournament promoted by Dixon, who has quit the circuit to concentrate on promoting and the previous years have attracted crowds topping 2,000.
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The ads promote a quick physical exam, called palpation, in which doctors feel for unusual lumps in the thyroid, a small gland in the front of the neck.
NYT > Home Page
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As a promotional tool to sell the show, this collection is faultless.
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In recent years, the 64 year-old mother of six took a pivotal community leadership role, promoting reconciliation.
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An interesting new application of display promotion is the use of interactive computers.
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The Arts Centre was planning to promote local-based talent and bridge the gap between pub gigs and the 3,000 capacity Hummingbird venue.
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Users can therefore search for medal awards (mainly gallantry and meritorious service awards), army and navy commissions, promotions, the naturalisation of an ancestor and much more during this crucial period in history.
