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  • I am researching the environmental impact of electric cars.
    environmental = relating to the natural world
  • Her lecture is on energy and the environment.
    environment = natural world
  • Aside from corruption and bad government, my father's main concern in those days was the environment.   (source)
    environment = natural world (the quality of human, animal, and plant life)
  • The Broarwood Nature Reserve, as you know, is dedicated to preserving our natural resources and the environment.   (source)
    environment = the natural world
  • Mr. Eberhardt explained that he had borrowed the file, xeroxed every page, and then taken the material to some lawyers who were experts on environmental matters.   (source)
    environmental = relating to the quality of human, animal, and plant life
  • It is unquestionably beautiful, but its beauty is obscured by the environmental waste and loose trash that scatters the countryside.   (source)
    environmental = relating to the natural world
  • His advisers, who had updates on infrastructure and some environmental concerns, were seated to one side, and the camera cut to show them.   (source)
    environmental = related to the natural world
  • I like eating with my fingers and off napkins, but my sister says that doing so is bad for the environment.   (source)
    environment = natural world (the quality of human, animal, and plant life)
  • Overpopulation, leading — as we've seen in spades — to environmental degradation and poor nutrition.   (source)
    environmental = related to the natural world (life, air, water, land...)
  • The government of Nepal recognized that the throngs flocking to Everest created serious problems in terms of safety, aesthetics, and impact to the environment.   (source)
    environment = the natural world
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  • So what kind of environmental lawsuits?   (source)
    environmental = related to the natural world (life, air, water, land...)
  • This means defining the priorities where common European action makes obvious sense and can make a real difference, like economic co-ordination, foreign and security policy, the environment, crime and drugs.   (source)
    environment = natural world (the quality of human, animal, and plant life)
  • "Conservative" is the word I've always associated with conserving our environment from pollution, ensuring that our water is potable and our grass green.   (source)
    environment = the natural world
  • Consequently, the Environmental Impact Statement conveniently disappeared from the city files.   (source)
    environmental impact statement = a report on the effects of certain actions upon the quality of human, animal, and plant life
  • THE ENVIRONMENT, he wrote on the chalkboard, and added: OUR WORLD!   (source)
    environment = the natural world
  • Generally speaking, surface mining is pretty bad for the environment.   (source)
    environment = natural world (the quality of human, animal, and plant life)
  • "I don't know what that means. What sort of soil reports?"
    "You know, the environmental kind."   (source)
    environmental = related to the natural world (life, air, water, land...)
  • "We comply with all pertinent environmental regulations," Johnson said automatically.   (source)
  • Usually with the EPA or some environmental group.   (source)
  • So he profits from creating environmental nightmares.   (source)
  • The name was ironic and my father often laughed about it, but the organization's aim was serious: to preserve the environment of Swat and promote peace and education among local people.   (source)
    environment = natural world (the quality of human, animal, and plant life)
  • In the spring of 1994 he worked for Fischer on the Sagarmatha Environmental Expedition and reached the top of Everest a second time, again without bottled oxygen.   (source)
    environmental = relating to the natural world
  • My father was out a lot, as he was busy, not just with his school, but also with literary societies and jirgas, as well as trying to save the environment, trying to save our valley.   (source)
    environment = natural world (the quality of human, animal, and plant life)
  • "So, what are some really important things?" he asked us. ... FAMILY. PARENTS. PETS.
      One girl called out: "The environment!"   (source)
    environment = the natural world
  • Christened the Sagarmatha Environmental Expedition, Fischer's team removed 5,000 pounds of trash from the mountain-which was very good for the landscape and turned out to be even better public relations.   (source)
    environmental = relating to the natural world
  • We here at Mother Paula's All-American Pancake Houses, Inc., take pride in our strong commitment to the environment.   (source)
    environment = the quality of human, animal, and plant life
  • The spent oxygen bottles blighting the South Col have been accumulating since the 1950s, but thanks to an ongoing litter-removal Program instigated in 1994 by Scott Fischer's Sagar matha Environmental Expedition, there are fewer of them up there now than there used to be.   (source)
    environmental = relating to the natural world
  • "We want to assure all our customers that Mother Paula's remains strongly committed to protecting our environment," he said, "and we deeply regret that the careless actions of a few former employees and contractors may have put these unique little birds in jeopardy."   (source)
    environment = natural world (the quality of human, animal, and plant life)
  • The missing Environmental Impact Statement made the front page of the Gazette and ultimately proved to be the fatal blow to the pancake-house project.   (source)
    environmental impact statement = a report on the effects of certain actions upon the quality of human, animal, and plant life
  • Environmental Impact Statement.   (source)
  • And suddenly, as a young man, I realized this is all real: The gap between our civilization, our prosperity, our freedoms, and all of those things is the quality of our leaders, the courage of our people, the willingness to face facts, and the willingness to work for solutions--solutions to energy, solutions to the environment, solutions to the economy, solutions to education, and solutions to national security.   (source)
    environment = natural world (the quality of human, animal, and plant life)
  • But increasingly we share a common agenda and common objectives: completion of the Single Market and structural economic reform; better conditions for growth and jobs in Europe; successful enlargement; a united and coherent foreign policy voice for Europe; a more effective fight against crime, drugs, illegal immigration and environmental damage; flexible, open and accountable European institutions.   (source)
    environmental = related to the natural world (life, air, water, land...)
  • It causes flooding and a host of other environmental issues, not to mention that blowing the tops off mountains leaves the countryside pretty damn ugly.   (source)
  • These elements would drift up into the sky, react with oxygen to form sulfur trioxide, and then clamp onto water molecules to create a potent compound that would later fall back to earth as toxic acid rain. None of it was a trusty recipe for environmental harmony.   (source)
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  • Numerous environmental factors can impact expression of the gene.
  • The program is optimized for the Windows environment.
  • The company provides a comfortable working environment.
  • It's not a good environment for raising children.
  • She does well in a competitive environment.
    environment = situation
  • See, there's this boy who's starting middle school this year, and he's never been in a real school environment before because he was homeschooled, so...   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • I hoped they hated us, that they weren't full of that pity-the-victims-of-environment junk the social workers kept handing Curly Shepard every time he got sent off to reform school.   (source)
  • The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.   (source)
  • I wrote that children of bipolar parents are hit with double risk factors: first, because they are genetically predisposed to mood disorders, and second, because of the stressful environment and poor parenting of parents with such disorders.   (source)
  • In the interest of a civil environment, Rosa Hubermann and Frau Holtzapfel were kept separated, though some things were above petty arguments.   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
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  • Why are they deprived of school and a peaceful environment?   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • Lori blamed Dad for creating a sick environment, while Dad maintained that Maureen had faulty wiring.   (source)
  • The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical….   (source)
  • But I was so impressed by the environment that "being myself" meant staring slack-jawed at the fineries of the restaurant and wondering how much they cost.   (source)
  • If I was going to drive a car in this environment, though, it would have to be a very big and heavy one.   (source)
  • I walked up and down on the verandah, restless in my new environment.   (source)
  • The inhabitants of these offices were creatures of their environment: little gray-faced men, they seemed untouched by wind or sun.   (source)
  • I could be intimidating when I needed to be or find ways to make the palace a very unwelcoming environment.   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
  • And I'm really good at hunting down shooters in pretty much any environment.   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • High-value target in a high-danger environment.   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
  • On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • "The Savage," wrote Bernard in his report to Mustapha Mond, "shows surprisingly little astonishment at, or awe of, civilized inventions. This is partly due....  Partly on his interest being focussed on what he calls 'the soul,' which he persists in regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him…"   (source)
  • He learn new social life, new environment of old ways, the politics, the law, the finance, the science, the habit of a new land and a new people who have come to be since he was.   (source)
  • It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts than amid the unappropriate environment of the Collector's office.   (source)
  • They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.†   (source)
  • Urban environments are way more energy efficient than rural ones.†   (source)
  • But environments are never static for long.†   (source)
  • I've heard from parents who feel overwhelmed by the challenges of raising their children in hostile environments and who are taking advantage of the resources in the guide.†   (source)
  • The overall size of these environments was relatively small, usually just a single world, or a dozen or so small planets.†   (source)
  • An African American woman, she was adept even in environments where her gender or race made her an outsider.†   (source)
  • And these days everybody has animatronic environments.†   (source)
  • They're products of particular places and environments.†   (source)
  • They're exposed to chemicals, sunlight, and different environments, all of which can cause DNA changes.†   (source)
  • They did prefer zero-gravity environments.†   (source)
  • And on the face of it, with the world the way it is now, with planes and computers and cars with brains and comfort-controlled environments and every single whim catered to by technology—with all of that, all that we have become—it doesn't somehow seem possible to do something so basic and elemental.†   (source)
  • They needed such environments in order to practice their art.†   (source)
  • The McDonald's Corporation led the way in the standardization of America's retail environments, rigorously controlling the appearance of its restaurants inside and out.†   (source)
  • We are quartered in Centenary Hal l, a dark brick structure we share with the popular culture department, known officially as American environments.†   (source)
  • Heat signatures in controlled environments showed up like solar flares, and already his goggles revealed a glowing red smear on a banister up ahead, which Bellamy or Langdon had grabbed on to while running past.†   (source)
  • Most importantly, we demonstrated to the world that if students were reared in humane, cultivated environments, it was possible for them to grow to be as sensitive and intelligent as any ordinary human being.†   (source)
  • In these city environments people began to think in a completely new way.†   (source)
  • The Bureau then placed them in secure environments to settle in for the long haul, equipped with basic versions of the serums to help them control their society.†   (source)
  • The visit renewed his enthusiasm for his work and reminded him that there were environments where his heritage could drift into the background.†   (source)
  • A few elves have gone beyond mere aesthetic changes and altered their anatomy to adapt to various environments, as you will see during the Blood-oath Celebration.†   (source)
  • An example of the measures we've been talking about--including emergency obstetrics to save lives in difficult environments--can be found in a wondrous hospital in a remote country that doesn't even exist….†   (source)
  • Then we wore the suits outside and lay down in different environments, trying to spot each other.†   (source)
  • But for long days hunched over his spotting scope, Schaller found himself simply admiring how magnificently the ibex had adapted to this harshest of all environments.†   (source)
  • What the dogs knew was that there were four distinct environments in our house and they rarely came together.†   (source)
  • I had certainly entered enough hostile environments during my police career.†   (source)
  • We don't know exactly how it affects humans in human environments.†   (source)
  • Some Secret Service agents believe that seaports such as Galway are higher-risk environments than inland cities because of their large immigrant populations, but as is always the case when a motorcade route causes the president's car to slow down for a turn, the intersection has been thoroughly prechecked by an advance team of agents.†   (source)
  • It's pretty horrifying, when you think of it, that we can still describe people who just go about living their daily lives, speaking a language that they learned in their homes and in their neighborhoods, and have some outsider listen to it and say it's 'gibberish,' when it serves them perfectly well as a vehicle of communication for what they want to do in those environments.†   (source)
  • Yet dragons, especially white ones who are rarely active in their cold environments, can live many centuries without meat.†   (source)
  • Somehow human beings always cope with their environments.†   (source)
  • It was a different type of hunting; we all like being in different environments.†   (source)
  • There are six low phoenix notes and six high, six worldly environments, six senses, six virtues, six obligations, six classes of ideograph, six domestic animals, six arts, and six paths of metempsychosis.†   (source)
  • It was being shown how to explore in difficult environments and to report back.†   (source)
  • Some of my teammates fared even worse than I in the meager air and unhygenic environment.   (source)
  • Indeed, the work environment once mirrored the Kentucky towns that many of the employees came from.   (source)
  • O victim of environment, underprivileged, rotten, no-count hood!   (source)
  • Heredity and environment are funny things.   (source)
  • It's a safe environment, and then you get thrown back into reality.   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
  • Deliberate Living: Conscious attention to the basics of life, and a constant attention to your immediate environment and its concerns, examples A job, a task, a book; anything requiring efficient concentration (Circumstance has no value.   (source)
  • There are ways of keeping them in school by force, but it's silly to force people like the Ewells into a new environment-   (source)
  • "I don't want to carry the telephone," Lopsang later admitted, in part because it worked only marginally at Camp Three and it seemed even less likely to work in the colder, harsher environment of Camp Four.   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • Having spent a lifetime in this comforting environment, Mrs. Mooreland was surprised that in his moment of need Jim Williams had reached out to someone completely unknown—rather than to Walter Hartridge, for instance, or to Dick Richardson.   (source)
  • At the beginning of the school year, when I enlisted certain children to be a "welcoming committee" to August, I did so as a way of easing his transition into a school environment.   (source)
    environment = conditions
  • But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth.   (source)
    environment = web of surrounding conditions
  • When I arrived at the restaurant, I thought it a pity that the most expensive meal I'd ever eaten would take place in such a high-stakes environment.   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • It was 'Come and join the party!' because you don't have many things like this happening in Savannah, in a historical mansion with an environment of antiques and fine things and an air of mystery and intrigue.   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
  • Sometimes these mutations occur during pregnancy. Sometimes they're inherited from one parent carrying the dominant gene. Sometimes they're caused by the interaction of many genes, possibly in combination with environmental factors.   (source)
    environmental = related to surrounding conditions
  • Instead of living in concert with the land, instead of relying on the country for sustenance as the natives did, he attempted to insulate himself from the northern environment with ill-suited military tools and traditions.   (source)
    environment = conditions
  • But for him to make better choices, he needs to live in an environment that forces him to ask tough questions about himself.   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • At every level of my life and in every environment, I have found family and mentors and lifelong friends who supported and enabled me.   (source)
    environment = web of surrounding conditions
  • I'd like to tell you how my grandparents thrived in their new environment, how they raised a successful family, and how they retired comfortably middle-class.   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • In other words, despite all of the environmental pressures from my neighborhood and community, I received a different message at home.   (source)
    environmental = relating to surrounding conditions
  • He did not know how to swim, but the children remedied that, and Eugene was soon performing different strokes, and even flips, in the cool water, his bad leg not holding him back any in that environment.   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • "We need to get the bodies to a refrigerated environment soon and then have the posts done," said Puller as he stared down at the decomposing bodies.   (source)
  • Knowing that Adam, too, had recommitted his life to Jesus, Larry believed the retreat would be a safe environment for reconciliation before Adam left on Monday for Teen Challenge.   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
  • The thickly vegetated, hot, humid, jungle-like environment of Stennis was the setting for react-to-contact drills performed in a realistic exercise, complete with explosions going off, blanks being fired, and a motivated opposing force attempting to "kill" them.   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • They had to master one-thousand-meter stalks with a two-hour time limit; photographing or "killing" moving, stationary, and pop-up targets ranging from one hundred to twelve hundred yards out; and building ghillie suits that matched the environment.   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
  • Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • Instead, I asked a question: "Do you think we're all just products of our environments?†   (source)
  • It can live on kitchen countertops for days and in moist environments for weeks.†   (source)
  • And that was before the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments.†   (source)
  • He'd been having trouble, he said, establishing an Elvis Presley power base in the department of American environments.†   (source)
  • Prisoners were required to do manual labor in very difficult work environments or face solitary confinement or other disciplinary action.†   (source)
  • Scientists had spent millions of dollars conducting research on those cells to study the behavior of each tissue type, comparing one to another, testing the unique responses of different cell types to specific drugs, chemicals, or environments.†   (source)
  • In the days before the OASIS, massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) were among the first shared synthetic environments.†   (source)
  • It turned into a bigger problem when the whole Kourier thing got started and thrashers started spending a lot more time trying to go fast through office. type environments where glass walls are considered quite the concept.†   (source)
  • They were legally condemned children hidden away in adult prisons, largely unknown and forgotten, preoccupied with surviving in dangerous, terrifying environments with little family support or outside help.†   (source)
  • Their environments ran the gamut, from sword-and-sorcery settings to cyberpunk-themed planetwide cities to irradiated postapocalyptic zombie-infested wastelands.†   (source)
  • When these basic deficits that burden all children are combined with the environments that some poor children experience—environments marked by abuse, violence, dysfunction, neglect, and the absence of loving caretakers—adolescence can leave kids vulnerable to the sort of extremely poor decision making that results in tragic violence.†   (source)
  • In addition to restricting the overall size of their virtual environments, earlier MMOs had been forced to limit their virtual populations, usually to a few thousand users per server.†   (source)
  • MMO players could only see these online environments through a small two-dimensional window—their desktop computer monitor— and they could only interact with it by using keyboards, mice, and other crude input devices.†   (source)
  • Epidemics, Zenilman's map demonstrates, are strongly influenced by their situation — by the circumstances and conditions and particulars of the environments in which they operate.†   (source)
  • Leavitt himself suggested the analogy of the upper atmosphere and the depths of the sea as equally inhospitable environments, but equally viable.†   (source)
  • "It seems," Leavitt said, "that the Navy sponsored some studies a few years back on the psychological effects of colored environments.†   (source)
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  • I mean, it's more environmentally responsible."†   (source)
  • At one point, I came across this sentence: "Mammal brains receive a constant stream of interoceptive input from the GI tract, which combines with other interoceptive information from within the body and contextual information from the environment before sending an integrated response to target cells within the GI tract through what is commonly called the 'gut-brain informational axis' but might be better described as the 'gut-brain informational cycle."†   (source)
  • He decided he wanted to transfer to another school with a livelier environment, but he didn't want to ask directly for a transfer.†   (source)
  • What about the human environment?†   (source)
  • The environment is an environment.†   (source)
  • It was true, his father said, that in a relatively static environment the pace of evolution should decelerate, as individual species have little new to adapt to.†   (source)
  • That's when I started to understand that I was in a different environment.†   (source)
  • Once we tackle world hunger, then we can figure out how to fix the environment and solve the energy crisis.†   (source)
  • It may be the reflection of nothing more than a minor change in the environment.†   (source)
  • That's a perfect age for her to learn to adjust to a new environment.†   (source)
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  • Sometimes there are threats from the environment that must be faced.†   (source)
  • In time, the Alabama Supreme Court interpreted the term environment to include the womb and the term child to include a fetus.†   (source)
  • He's very much involved with depicting his neighborhood and environment in a positive manner.†   (source)
  • Number one was an environmental lawyer, of all things; number two was corporate—that's how they had enough money to get me.†   (source)
  • She also spoke about education, crime, the environment, war, taxes, insurance, health and medicine, the justice system …. and fruit.†   (source)
  • We shouldn't care about the environment?†   (source)
  • Some 1,500 Jews volunteered to go, thinking that anything must be better than the squalid environment they were in.†   (source)
  • Because of these things, we were basically left to wander aimlessly about our new environment for the entire first week.†   (source)
  • It's a no-win argument—that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us.†   (source)
  • Reevaluate your environment.†   (source)
  • With the exception of the color red, I always wear earth tones because I'm blending into my environment.†   (source)
  • In this new environment it was relatively easy for Briony to arrange to swap her day off with Fiona who generously gave up her Saturday for a Monday.†   (source)
  • In a pure-oxygen environment, 16.†   (source)
  • In my twenties, while taking Introduction to Psychology, I tried to tell her why she shouldn't criticize so much, why it didn't lead to a healthy learning environment.†   (source)
  • Light was sucked from the environment right up to the stars, which vanished.†   (source)
  • Thanks to her, I learned to dream beyond my environment.†   (source)
  • I don't think this is a good environment for Tigger.†   (source)
  • Sonia, who is working for an environmental agency and studying for her LSAT, had said it was too far to travel.†   (source)
  • It was not our environment.†   (source)
  • After all, his environment will be influencing him every day you're gone.†   (source)
  • If researchers wanted to figure out how cells behaved in a certain environment, or reacted to a specific chemical, or produced a certain protein, they turned to Henrietta's cells.†   (source)
  • Isolation is. the optimum environment for creativity.†   (source)
  • Dust-free environment.†   (source)
  • One part of this counterculture was the environmental movement.†   (source)
  • Nuclear missiles would release radiation into the atmosphere, with incalculable environmental results.†   (source)
  • His car, which he rarely drives to save gas and help the environment, is a tiny Mazda purchased for $400.†   (source)
  • Stop watching old Baywatch reruns and use my time wisely, like to study Algebra, or maybe improve the environment, or something.†   (source)
  • The staff psychiatrist in charge of Monkey's case thought there was a better-than-even chance that Monkey could make it on the street, and they both knew that the longer a man is in an institution the more he comes to need that closed environment, like a junkie with his smack.†   (source)
  • It took me less than a minute to examine my new environment.†   (source)
  • Target-rich environment?†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was stunned and scared to find itself in such an alien environment.†   (source)
  • That is what we're good at, blending into the environment and living within its shadows.†   (source)
  • My environment mirrored my vocabulary.†   (source)
  • I knew it wasn't the stimulating learning environment I was anticipating, or seeing my new set of friends.†   (source)
  • Especially in a club environment.†   (source)
  • Courtesy of Maria Dietz Up in the mountains or down at sea level, Danny Dietz was the master of his environment.†   (source)
  • Most of my time, sleeping and waking, has been spent outside, in close contact with what we NOW call the environment, what my uncles used to call, simply, "the woods."†   (source)
  • Even our best intentions, he seems to suggest, can have disastrous consequences in an alien environment.†   (source)
  • We do it in a very environmentally friendly way.†   (source)
  • Because his face had no other open orifices, the pressure of his sneeze forced geysers of motor oil out his ears, spraying the dunes with environmentally unfriendly sludge.†   (source)
  • Instead, the environment is cluttered.†   (source)
  • And no society has ever suffered so much environmental devastation on such a massive scale.†   (source)
  • Even my brother enjoyed success in this new environment.†   (source)
  • Looking back, however, I think she said it more to win the money than to turn me into some kind of environmentally wise escape artist.†   (source)
  • We're two academics in an intellectual environment.†   (source)
  • I want an environment we control.†   (source)
  • It was the coolest environment I'd ever been in.†   (source)
  • But Hegbert wouldn't allow drinking or cursing, and Toby really didn't know how to work within such a strict environment.†   (source)
  • That sign could last forever in this sealed and pristine environment.†   (source)
  • "This is the perfect music environment," he insists, motioning toward the mouth of the tunnel as if it were the stage of the Hollywood Bowl.†   (source)
  • And the fourth is that everyone who stays here must contribute to the welfare of this environment by working.†   (source)
  • The media has saturated the legal environment.†   (source)
  • She desired these things with a primitive impulse that her husband was happy to rationalize, and they were beautiful, useful objects as long as they remained in their original environment, in the show windows of Rome, Paris, London, or in the New York, vibrating to the Charleston, where skyscrapers were beginning to grow, but they could not withstand the test of Strauss waltzes with pork cracklings or Poetic Festivals when it was ninety degrees in the shade.†   (source)
  • As soon as we have proof that the environment is hospitable, we'll begin recolonization."†   (source)
  • How the mind gears itself for its environment, she thought.†   (source)
  • In many ways, I'm now grateful my mother took us out of that environment.†   (source)
  • Quality is the continuing stimulus which our environment puts upon us to create the world in which we live.†   (source)
  • It was into this volatile environment that I walked one evening.†   (source)
  • We have to think of the environment.†   (source)
  • Nadia experienced the environment of the house as a bit like that of a university dormitory at the start of classes, with complete strangers living in close proximity, many of them on their best behavior, trying to add warmth to conversations and strike poses of friendship, hoping these gestures would become more natural over time.†   (source)
  • Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment.†   (source)
  • A sixteen-year-old girl who lived in a really sheltered environment.†   (source)
  • Of course-environment plays an awfully important part in our lives such as the Convent in mine & in my case I am grateful for that influence.†   (source)
  • I guess the reason I really want to be a judge is because I love the way a courtroom is an equal opportunity environment.†   (source)
  • I tried to ignore him, checking on the details of my new environment.†   (source)
  • You adapt to your environment, I adapt to mine.†   (source)
  • They did not impress her as being rough; they seemed, on the contrary, rather too gentle for their brutal environment.†   (source)
  • Change of body, change of personal environment, for one thing.†   (source)
  • The learning environment of the missionary schools, while often morally rigid, was far more open than the racist principles underlying government schools.†   (source)
  • He thought, This environment favors the monkey over us.†   (source)
  • And it's not a healthy environment for kids.†   (source)
  • The best hope for their growth and development, as for all children, is an educational environment without predetermined limits.†   (source)
  • In a wild and free state they …. stray sometimes for miles …. wandering until they find a suitable environment.†   (source)
  • Instead of mastering their environment, the elves had chosen to accept the world as it was and adapt themselves to it.†   (source)
  • There's no place in a working environment for these interpersonal issues.†   (source)
  • An environment which builds lean, vigorous bodies, is apt to nourish keen, alert minds.†   (source)
  • But the literature of the future is going to be based on genetics, not on environment.†   (source)
  • Sometimes in an environment of physical or emotional deprivation a child will simply stop growing, although certain internal maturation does continue.†   (source)
  • My enjoyment in simply experiencing the familiar environment was interrupted when the telephone on my desk buzzed.†   (source)
  • These schools offer an environment that is simply not conducive to learning.†   (source)
  • It was hard to see how a person could conduct an intimate relationship in such an intensely overcrowded environment, let alone an illicit relationship.†   (source)
  • Kamarov, you will go aft to work the environmental controls.†   (source)
  • Not that I don't think our environment needs protection.†   (source)
  • And then Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, and the environmental movement was born.†   (source)
  • I knew I could overcome the challenges of a fluid environment.†   (source)
  • I think it will teach me about how the environment can influence whether teen moms decide to keep their babies, have abortions, or give them up for adoption or foster care.†   (source)
  • Instead I saw high-rise buildings, wide clean streets, a green and orderly environment.†   (source)
  • He made no demands for good food and environment.†   (source)
  • It posed an "environmental danger" that needed to be quickly assessed.†   (source)
  • The CCC was designed to wean young men off street corners by getting them involved in shoring up the nation's natural environment.†   (source)
  • He talked about the environment nonstop as we walked.†   (source)
  • It was an island of comfort in an otherwise alien environment.†   (source)
  • Maybe he'll get a third degree, in environmental science.†   (source)
  • But this wasn't a safe, controlled environment I was learning in.†   (source)
  • The lunch table wasn't exactly a warm, loving environment that afternoon.†   (source)
  • I wrote it off as being a function of his new job as a professor, a side effect of his new suits and new environment.†   (source)
  • Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with.†   (source)
  • It also turned out that water was not a good environment for their systems to function properly in.†   (source)
  • But this pathogen seems to do quite well in adverse environmental conditions.†   (source)
  • In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him.†   (source)
  • This wasn't the only punishment that this new environment visited upon these Mexican children.†   (source)
  • That couldn't happen to your child, because addiction is the result of a bad environment, bad parenting.†   (source)
  • In the middle lay the natural environment of humans—space stations, ships, constructed habitats.†   (source)
  • Only if you were in a sufficiently broad-minded environment that allowed you to argue with authority.†   (source)
  • When she regained her breath, she said, "Loren Pollack believes the purpose of human intellectual striving—the purpose of science—is to increase our understanding of the universe, not just to give us better physical control of our environment or to satisfy curiosity, but to solve the puzzle of existence God has put before us."†   (source)
  • They looked lost and out of their environment, uncomfortable with actually being on the ground.†   (source)
  • It is the activity of finitude impressing itself on its environment.†   (source)
  • Once on the appropriate floor, you can program any number of scenario variables: environment, objectives, opponents, et cetera.†   (source)
  • We weren't going to say a word about our leaving during the season, but once the decision was made, our search began in all seriousness to find the best environment for me to fully develop my passion, and what seemed then to be talent, for playing quarterback.†   (source)
  • The cue was the word "environment."†   (source)
  • It's a really tiny place that is changing a great big environment," he remembered thinking.†   (source)
  • This is the environment into which the Oswald family arrives.†   (source)
  • Another problem is understanding speech in a noisy environment, at which humans show amazing ability.†   (source)
  • The one lesson we can surely learn from these events is that airplanes are complex machines, operating in a precarious environment—the air—where any emergency, be it from mechanical failure, human error or weather hazard, is fraught with peril.†   (source)
  • It's the natural language for this environment.†   (source)
  • The variety, the sense of possibility, and the watchfulness that such an environment creates have given to us many honors unparalleled in the world.†   (source)
  • He looks down at the sheet of questions: Discuss Hardy's view of Man's control over his inner/outer environment, using Jude the Obscure as example.†   (source)
  • The Rangers are gung-ho, small-unit specialists who pride themselves on being able to fight in virtually any environment on a moment's notice.†   (source)
  • It can't be lead; it has to be steel so it's not harmful to the ducks or the environment.†   (source)
  • Eve wasn't an antique buff, nor was she an expert on environmental crime, but she'd studied forensics enough to know that the shape and length of the blade were right.†   (source)
  • Luna has only one way to deal with a new chum: Either he makes not one fatal mistake, in personal behavior or in coping with environment that will bite without warning…. or he winds up as fertilizer in tunnel farm.†   (source)
  • Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment.†   (source)
  • Miraculously, it appeared as though he had come through surgery in an unsterile environment with no sepsis.†   (source)
  • Papaw grew up in Rocky Branch, Louisiana, in an environment much like the one Phil grew up in.†   (source)
  • Was a very active space environment movement.†   (source)
  • I felt the task ahead of me was one which could best be conducted in an unconstrained environment.†   (source)
  • Options for My Hypothetical Future Recovery Scenario (Abridged) i) Full-body regeneration through stem cell implantation into controlled fluid environment Transplantation of full cranial structure onto robotic apparatus Transplantation of full cranial structure onto donor body Neuro-uploading into donor body and brain Personal Reactions to Options for My Hypothetical Future Recovery Scenario (Abridged) i) Gross ROBOT ARMS!†   (source)
  • We were going to share every environment we walked through, with the folks who were rooted in it.†   (source)
  • Isn't that an environment for a sensitive boy, Doctor?†   (source)
  • He spins another coin over his shoulder without looking at it, his attention being directed at his environment or lack of it.†   (source)
  • Inability to cope with a sudden change in the environment.†   (source)
  • They only study the effects of environment on human nature.†   (source)
  • The entity that had been Jennifer Anne Greggson was not yet fully developed, but even in its sleeping chrysalis state it already had enough control of its environment to take care of all its needs.†   (source)
  • Hilarius, if asked, would accuse her of using subliminal cues in the environment to guide her to a particular person) or howsoever, she came on one Stanley Koteks, who wore wire-rim bifocals, sandals, argyle socks, and at first glance seemed too young to be working here.†   (source)
  • But things were now radically altered and I had happily come to terms with my environment.†   (source)
  • I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment.†   (source)
  • It involved the setting up of models of known environmental factors, which were then enriched during the initial wait-move sequences.†   (source)
  • We will protect our environment.†   (source)
  • Another thing is that I am obsessed by the problem of mimicry, the outward adaptation of an organism to the color of its environment.†   (source)
  • Then they got short drinks for themselves and sat on the lawn, the bars between them and the baby, smoking cigarettes and watching her reaction to the new environment.†   (source)
  • Congresswoman Hilda Solis, who grew up in one of America's most polluted communities, spearheaded the fight for the nation's first environmental justice law when she was a young Latina state senator in California.†   (source)
  • The details must be filled in by yourself as your time, your environment, and necessity require.†   (source)
  • The environment would drive any sane man mad.†   (source)
  • "He's supposed to explore his environment.†   (source)
  • Essentially, this pod is a sealed, energy-neutral environment.†   (source)
  • "The environment," Kohler ventured assuredly.†   (source)
  • It seemed that every time, every time, I adjusted to a new environment, something happened.†   (source)
  • Obviously the fitness of the animals to the environment was one area.†   (source)
  • We have to think of the environment again.†   (source)
  • The sudden appearance of a tiger is arresting in any environment, but it was all the more so here.†   (source)
  • Feminists, antiracists, and environmental activists could all reckon on receiving their share.†   (source)
  • "You don't do that kind of thing in an uncontrolled environment," he said.†   (source)
  • They handle a phenomenal amount of traffic in a very constrained environment.†   (source)
  • He used to say he had created the perfect environment for raising children.†   (source)
  • Because they promise the mine won't harm the environment, and then the mine harms the environment.†   (source)
  • This is the real thing, and the environment is different.†   (source)
  • "But he's adapted to his environment so well—the way he leaps from tree to tree.†   (source)
  • "I know what environment means, Mavis," Grandma Ellie said.†   (source)
  • What kind of combat environment do you want to use Reason in?†   (source)
  • But they're also loud and attract attention in an urban environment.†   (source)
  • A sign announced TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT Keep this door closed at all times.†   (source)
  • I was suddenly aware of the dense environmental texture.†   (source)
  • So instead, I went to good old "Spare Parts" Rover 1 and stole its environment heater.†   (source)
  • The only thing that's changed for me is the environment."†   (source)
  • "But you must have an adequate research environment, and there's nothing like that here.†   (source)
  • The priest's environment pod was halfway up the treeship, far out on a secondary branch.†   (source)
  • It doesn't include the cost to the environment from manure, pesticide, and fertilizer pollution.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure I want to expose Luke to that kind of environment."†   (source)
  • "Life improves the capacity of the environment to sustain life," his father said.†   (source)
  • Phillip always believed school was a terrible environment.†   (source)
  • I had to live in a cramped environment that was full of junk and reeked of body odor.†   (source)
  • "Except urban is not an environment," argued Chuck.†   (source)
  • But there are numerous examples of how man interferes in the environment.†   (source)
  • The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment.†   (source)
  • Those plant cells were polluting the environment with a deadly poison.†   (source)
  • This is done to give players a familiar environment.†   (source)
  • He didn't even know whether I was going to a rural or urban environment.†   (source)
  • Thrashers and nuclear fuzz-grunge collectives thrive in the same environment.†   (source)
  • This is clearly a great thing for the environment and the public health.†   (source)
  • Plus you'd need perfect clone stock and an interactive environment precise to the last detail.†   (source)
  • I was to be removed immediately from my home (or "the environment," as they kept calling it).†   (source)
  • Now that bond is free to grow in an environment of better conditions.†   (source)
  • We are just a strange, smelly object in their environment.†   (source)
  • Your Environment Branch should be creating environmental disasters and then exploiting them.†   (source)
  • It required a calibrated environment, like the orchids in the flower shop.†   (source)
  • It is her reconstruction of the psychological environment inside of that bimbo box.†   (source)
  • In 1990 the Environmental Protection Agency found that Alar could cause cancer.†   (source)
  • Upbringing and environment were important here.†   (source)
  • THE MARSH REMAINED A "TARGET RICH environment" filled with insurgents.†   (source)
  • The new, more yielding environment allowed the carbon fibers to separate.†   (source)
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