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environment as in:  the environmental movement

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  • Her lecture is on energy and the environment.
    environment = natural world
  • I am researching the environmental impact of electric cars.
    environmental = relating to the natural world
  • The Broarwood Nature Reserve, as you know, is dedicated to preserving our natural resources and the environment.   (source)
    environment = the 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)
  • Once we tackle world hunger, then we can figure out how to fix the environment and solve the energy crisis.   (source)
    environment = the quality of human, animal, and plant life
  • They didn't get many visitors in Snakewater, and there had been a lot of speculation about what a lawyer from the Environmental Protection Agency would want to see Alan Grant about.   (source)
    environmental = relating to the quality of human, animal, and plant life
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
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  • 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
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
    environmental = related to the natural world (life, air, water, land...)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Also, it turns out that burning all of those fossil fuels had some nasty side effects, like raising the temperature of our planet and screwing up the environment.   (source)
    environment = the quality of human, animal, and plant life
  • 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)
  • "So, what are some really important things?" he asked us. ... FAMILY. PARENTS. PETS.
      One girl called out: "The environment!"   (source)
    environment = 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
  • "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...)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • So what kind of environmental lawsuits?   (source)
    environmental = related to the natural world (life, air, water, land...)
  • 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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environment as in:  her family environment

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  • She does well in a competitive environment.
    environment = situation
  • It's not a good environment for raising children.
  • The company provides a comfortable working environment.
  • The program is optimized for the Windows environment.
  • Numerous environmental factors can impact expression of the gene.
  • 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
  • It used harmless low-powered lasers to draw the stunningly real environment of the OASIS right onto its wearer's retinas, completely immersing their entire field of vision in the online world.   (source)
  • 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)
  • And it was in this environment that Procompsognathus lived.   (source)
  • Isolation is — the optimum environment for creativity.   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
  • 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)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • If I was going to drive a car in this environment, though, it would have to be a very big and heavy one.   (source)
  • The inhabitants of these offices were creatures of their environment: little gray-faced men, they seemed untouched by wind or sun.   (source)
  • I walked up and down on the verandah, restless in my new environment.   (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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • "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)
  • "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)
  • With the exception of the two mongrels, they were bewildered and spirit-broken by the strange savage environment in which they found themselves and by the ill treatment they had received.   (source)
    environment = conditions
  • 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)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • 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)
  • An African American woman, she was adept even in environments where her gender or race made her an outsider.†   (source)
  • They're products of particular places and environments.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Then we wore the suits outside and lay down in different environments, trying to spot each other.†   (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)
  • In these city environments people began to think in a completely new way.†   (source)
  • They're exposed to chemicals, sunlight, and different environments, all of which can cause DNA changes.†   (source)
  • They needed such environments in order to practice their art.†   (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)
  • We are quartered in Centenary Hal l, a dark brick structure we share with the popular culture department, known officially as American environments.†   (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 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)
  • 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.... Edna's Hospital Edna Adan first scandalized her country by learning to read, and she's been shocking her neighbors ever since.†   (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)
  • The visit renewed his enthusiasm for his work and reminded him that there were environments where his heritage could drift into the background.†   (source)
  • I had certainly entered enough hostile environments during my police career.†   (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)
  • What the dogs knew was that there were four distinct environments in our house and they rarely came together.†   (source)
  • We don't know exactly how it affects humans in human environments.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Somehow human beings always cope with their environments.†   (source)
  • Yet dragons, especially white ones who are rarely active in their cold environments, can live many centuries without meat.†   (source)
  • It was a different type of hunting; we all like being in different environments.†   (source)
  • It was being shown how to explore in difficult environments and to report back.†   (source)
  • The embryos must extract water from the surrounding environment.   (source)
  • O victim of environment, underprivileged, rotten, no-count hood!   (source)
  • Indeed, the work environment once mirrored the Kentucky towns that many of the employees came from.   (source)
  • Heredity and environment are funny things.   (source)
  • Look, this island is an attempt to re-create a natural environment from the past.   (source)
  • And these days everybody has animatronic environments.   (source)
  • And I'm really good at hunting down shooters in pretty much any environment.   (source)
  • It's a safe environment, and then you get thrown back into reality.   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
  • Some of my teammates fared even worse than I in the meager air and unhygenic environment.   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • High-value target in a high-danger environment.   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
  • 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)
  • 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 you could still interact with the environment in a limited way—walking through doors, sitting in chairs, and so forth.   (source)
    environment = 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
  • 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)
    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
  • 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)
  • 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...   (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
  • 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
  • Text adventure games (often referred to as "interactive fiction" by modern scholars) used text to create the virtual environment the player inhabited.   (source)
    environment = surrounding conditions
  • Here on the surface, Archaide looked exactly like the environment of the 1981 game Battlezone, another vectorgraphic classic from Atari.   (source)
  • But for him to make better choices, he needs to live in an environment that forces him to ask tough questions about himself.   (source)
  • 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)
  • Of course, if a dinosaur was frozen, or preserved in a peat bog, or mummified in a desert environment, then its DNA might be recoverable.   (source)
  • These planets all dated back to the early days of the OASIS, and each one re-created the environment of some classic text adventure game or MUD (multi-user dungeon).   (source)
  • They found dinosaur remains above the Arctic Circle, in a frigid environment unimaginable for a reptile.   (source)
  • The visor was light-years ahead of the clunky virtual-reality goggles available prior to that time, and it represented a paradigm shift in virtual-reality technology—as did the lightweight OASIS haptic gloves, which allowed users to directly control the hands of their avatar and to interact with their simulated environment as if they were actually inside it.   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Scientists had always classified dinosaurs as reptiles, cold-blooded creatures drawing the heat they needed for life from the environment.   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
  • In the days before the OASIS, massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) were among the first shared synthetic environments.   (source)
    environments = surrounding conditions
  • "And Hammond's project," Malcolm said, "is another apparently simple system-animals within a zoo environment-that will eventually show unpredictable behavior."   (source)
    environment = surrounding situation
  • The overall size of these environments was relatively small, usually just a single world, or a dozen or so small planets.   (source)
    environments = surrounding conditions
  • 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)
  • But, to answer your question, the reason we know all the animals are female is that we literally make them that way: we control their chromosomes, and we control the intra-egg developmental environment.   (source)
    environment = situation
  • Their environments ran the gamut, from sword-and-sorcery settings to cyberpunk-themed planetwide cities to irradiated postapocalyptic zombie-infested wastelands.   (source)
    environments = surrounding conditions
  • But by computer analysis we're working with something like five hundred variables: one hundred and twenty environmental, another two hundred intra-egg, and the rest from the genetic material itself.   (source)
    environmental = relating to surrounding conditions
  • 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)
    environments = surrounding conditions
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  • We shouldn't care about the environment?†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The book dealt only with a limited subject: the negative environmental effects of excessive pesticide use.†   (source)
  • If the physical environment was turning into a cesspit, the interpersonal environment was even worse.†   (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)
  • People are so wildly different, and it's hard to know when genetics or environment or just bad luck is decisive.†   (source)
  • I assigned this tension to the new environment of the island; any change, even positive, will make an animal tense.†   (source)
  • In time, the Alabama Supreme Court interpreted the term environment to include the womb and the term child to include a fetus.†   (source)
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  • That's a perfect age for her to learn to adjust to a new environment.†   (source)
  • We exist in equilibrium with our environment, Tally, purifying the water that we put back in the river, recycling the biomass, and using only power drawn from our own solar footprint.†   (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)
  • It's been in the nice, warm environment of the Hab all night, with plenty of light on its sparkling clean solar cells.†   (source)
  • With the exception of the color red, I always wear earth tones because I'm blending into my environment.†   (source)
  • Between meetings with members of various environmental and regulatory officials, Annie finally called back.†   (source)
  • Stop watching old Baywatch reruns and use my time wisely, like to study Algebra, or maybe improve the environment, or something.†   (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)
  • It's a no-win argument—that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us.†   (source)
  • There is a possibility, if we kill power to Vatican City, that we can eliminate the background RF and create a clean enough environment to get a reading on that canister's magnetic field.†   (source)
  • Light was sucked from the environment right up to the stars, which vanished.†   (source)
  • But Hegbert wouldn't allow drinking or cursing, and Toby really didn't know how to work within such a strict environment.†   (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)
  • She also spoke about education, crime, the environment, war, taxes, insurance, health and medicine, the justice system ...and fruit.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was stunned and scared to find itself in such an alien 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)
  • Polyface grass-fed chickens produce eggs with more omega-3s, beta-carotene, and vitamin E. And they do it in a way that's better for the environment.†   (source)
  • She brainwashed our class with positive messages, which made it easy to deal with the negativity in our environment.†   (source)
  • Some 1,500 Jews volunteered to go, thinking that anything must be better than the squalid environment they were in.†   (source)
  • It required a calibrated environment, like the orchids in the flower shop.†   (source)
  • So well adapted was the border culture to this environment that other ethnic groups tended to copy it.†   (source)
  • His car, which he rarely drives to save gas and help the environment, is a tiny Mazda purchased for $400.†   (source)
  • Nuclear missiles would release radiation into the atmosphere, with incalculable environmental results.†   (source)
  • It took me less than a minute to examine my new environment.†   (source)
  • That is what we're good at, blending into the environment and living within its shadows.†   (source)
  • Our dignified elephant of a chesterfield with its matching baby ottoman sits in the living room looking stunned, as if it got sleep-darted in its natural environment and woke up in this strange new captivity, surrounded by faux-posh carpet and synthetic wood and unveined walls.†   (source)
  • I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment, thank you very much.†   (source)
  • In communities with limited resources like Humboldt Park and East L.A., sophisticated survival structures evolved, including gangs, out of the bone and sinew tossed up by this environment.†   (source)
  • Because of these things, we were basically left to wander aimlessly about our new environment for the entire first week.†   (source)
  • His environment had left its unlikable marks on him, but in the ante bellum South, I could have found myself at the mercy of someone much worse—could have been descended from someone much worse.†   (source)
  • The sim re-creates the environment, plugs in the known factors, and works backward from the creative products.†   (source)
  • And the fourth is that everyone who stays here must contribute to the welfare of this environment by working.†   (source)
  • I thought of him out there alone for the first time in his life, in this strange environment without a single dog scent to be had anywhere.†   (source)
  • I knew it wasn't the stimulating learning environment I was anticipating, or seeing my new set of friends.†   (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 the coolest environment I'd ever been in.†   (source)
  • Even our best intentions, he seems to suggest, can have disastrous consequences in an alien 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)
  • In the middle lay the natural environment of humans—space stations, ships, constructed habitats.†   (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)
  • Some guys failed because they couldn't make their ghillie suit blend in with the environment around them.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • If only we'd had a flamethrower ... THE MARSH REMAINED A "TARGET RICH environment" filled with insurgents.†   (source)
  • The key words from the middle of the last century were nature, environment, history, evolution, and growth.†   (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)
  • I want an environment we control.†   (source)
  • All by himself, Lawrence Taylor altered the environment and forced opposing coaches and players to adapt.†   (source)
  • We do not have enough electrical power even to operate our environmental control systems for more than a few hours.†   (source)
  • Instead I saw high-rise buildings, wide clean streets, a green and orderly environment.†   (source)
  • Whether seriously in business or on a fun-loving hijirik, make yourself totally homely in this meager environment.†   (source)
  • Courtesy of Maria Dietz Up in the mountains or down at sea level, Danny Dietz was the master of his environment.†   (source)
  • Children who had grown up in that environment had little or no access to formal education, except for brief bits they might have received in refugee camps.†   (source)
  • In many ways, I'm now grateful my mother took us out of that environment.†   (source)
  • I will probably have to give her up for adoption, how can I possibly raise a baby in this 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)
  • 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)
  • A sixteen-year-old girl who lived in a really sheltered environment.†   (source)
  • Instead of mastering their environment, the elves had chosen to accept the world as it was and adapt themselves to it.†   (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)
  • That sign could last forever in this sealed and pristine environment.†   (source)
  • "The Arrakeen environment built itself into the evolutionary pattern of native life forms," his father said.†   (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)
  • The best hope for their growth and development, as for all children, is an educational environment without predetermined limits.†   (source)
  • It was an eerie thing to see, shamefully fascinating, as a seizure might be if witnessed in a controlled environment.†   (source)
  • Change of body, change of personal environment, for one thing.†   (source)
  • The decision was portrayed in the media as the "greening" of McDonald's and a great victory for the environmental movement.†   (source)
  • They did not impress her as being rough; they seemed, on the contrary, rather too gentle for their brutal environment.†   (source)
  • They would have to call the Environmental Protection Agency, which has jurisdiction in cases of environmental contamination by an extreme biohazard.†   (source)
  • Annual tuition hovers around $22,000, and most of the kids are raised in a sheltered upper-middle-class environment.†   (source)
  • You adapt to your environment, I adapt to mine.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Now, though, I could see the appeal of just disappearing, then laying low and waiting until the environment was more friendly to emerge.†   (source)
  • He was very passionate about the environment, and after listening to him for a while, so were Sam, Evra and me.†   (source)
  • My enjoyment in simply experiencing the familiar environment was interrupted when the telephone on my desk buzzed.†   (source)
  • But the literature of the future is going to be based on genetics, not on environment.†   (source)
  • Rob Burton, Cedric's roommate, graduated from Brown with a degree in marine biology and now teaches environmental science to kids in South America.†   (source)
  • The ineradicable dignity of the true mountaineer, who has always been as good as the best in his environment, preserved Johnnie from any embarrassment, any tendency to shrink or cringe.†   (source)
  • It is the activity of finitude impressing itself on its environment.†   (source)
  • Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment.†   (source)
  • Not that I don't think our environment needs protection.†   (source)
  • Decades of studies have shown that a child born into an adverse family environment is far more likely than other children to become a criminal.†   (source)
  • Once on the appropriate floor, you can program any number of scenario variables: environment, objectives, opponents, et cetera.†   (source)
  • He sat down behind his desk and launched into an easy conversation, sure of the security of his environment.†   (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)
  • But inside the Kennedy White House, Jackie sees to it that none of these political and social upheavals intrude on creating the perfect environment to raise a family.†   (source)
  • The lunch table wasn't exactly a warm, loving environment that afternoon.†   (source)
  • In a wild and free state they ...stray sometimes for miles ...wandering until they find a suitable environment.†   (source)
  • Those constructs allowed us to test your psychological and physical responses to a warm, nurturing environment.†   (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)
  • They were recreating the environment they knew best, where their responses to things seemed more natural than they did inside suburban homes scattered across the less lush and green United States.†   (source)
  • He could test the reality of this environment by standing up and walking around, but that wouldn't help if his dreams felt like reality.†   (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)
  • The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with.†   (source)
  • Mortenson's first impression of Waziristan was admiration that people had managed to survive in such an environment.†   (source)
  • As soon as we have proof that the environment is hospitable, we'll begin recolonization.†   (source)
  • Another problem is understanding speech in a noisy environment, at which humans show amazing ability.†   (source)
  • But this wasn't a safe, controlled environment I was learning in.†   (source)
  • Quality is the continuing stimulus which our environment puts upon us to create the world in which we live.†   (source)
  • At least one or two nights on the water, if Lamouche keeps to schedule-that's the hostile environment which contributed to your hysteria-and exposure to resentment and suspicion from men around you-symbolic of the initial stress situation.†   (source)
  • The learning environment of the missionary schools, while often morally rigid, was far more open than the racist principles underlying government schools.†   (source)
  • This wasn't the only punishment that this new environment visited upon these Mexican children.†   (source)
  • We could accept far more than would emigrate voluntarily but if they used forced emigration and flooded us....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)
  • 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)
  • Let's say Brother Jacques' U.S. History class—history should be concerned with environment, shouldn't it?†   (source)
  • I don't know what I would be in Burundi, even without a war, if I hadn't been exposed to this environment.†   (source)
  • Success or failure of our missions was a direct reflection of how each operator could process information in a stressful 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)
  • The organization was founded in 1997 to encourage students to explore careers in marine technology, from oil-rig construction and military applications to environmental and scientific research.†   (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)
  • Sometimes in an environment of physical or emotional deprivation a child will simply stop growing, although certain internal maturation does continue.†   (source)
  • That couldn't happen to your child, because addiction is the result of a bad environment, bad parenting.†   (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)
  • In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him.†   (source)
  • The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment.†   (source)
  • It's a fun environment with people who love each other, have interesting personalities, and enjoy what they do.†   (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)
  • My father hoped the change of environment would help my mother, who had suffered a nervous breakdown and needed numerous trips to Schumpert hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, for treatment.†   (source)
  • Wish it had been something that just yanks a kid out of an environment like that rather than kills them.†   (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)
  • Miraculously, it appeared as though he had come through surgery in an unsterile environment with no sepsis.†   (source)
  • What upset me most of all were the booming industrial powers that were destroying our only environment.†   (source)
  • He spins another coin over his shoulder without looking at it, his attention being directed at his environment or lack of it.†   (source)
  • Commerce had enjoyed the rituals of military drill and had flourished in the environment of an austere and congenial discipline.†   (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)
  • Then, by accident (Dr. 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)
  • I felt the task ahead of me was one which could best be conducted in an unconstrained environment.†   (source)
  • They only study the effects of environment on human nature.†   (source)
  • His intellect often wars with his emotions, his will with his desires ....his ideals are at odds with his environment, and if he follows them, he knows keenly the loss of that which was old-but if he does not follow them, he feels the pain of having forsaken a new and noble dream.†   (source)
  • It is a state of mind, a melting pot that represents the very, very best of America's evolution, an example of retention of a very special culture in a progressive environment of modern change.†   (source)
  • But how could one believe in God after practicing one's science for months in such a loathsome environment?†   (source)
  • We will protect our environment.†   (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)
  • Isn't that an environment for a sensitive boy, Doctor?†   (source)
  • They created and lived in an environment of paper profits, and when paper returned to paper they had to kill themselves, not realizing that their environment was unnatural and artificial.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • @kins was one of the burning lights of the Guild long-range education plan, and leader of the Environment Clique which believed that telepathic ability was not a congenital characteristic, but rather a latent quality of every living organism which could be developed by suitable training.†   (source)
  • The thought of taking their baby into such an environment terrified her.†   (source)
  • After all, his environment will be influencing him every day you're gone.†   (source)
  • Feminists, antiracists, and environmental activists could all reckon on receiving their share.†   (source)
  • This is clearly a great thing for the environment and the public health.†   (source)
  • Zimbardo isn't talking about environment, about the major external influences on all of our lives.†   (source)
  • He wanted to create an environment where rapid cognition was possible.†   (source)
  • "You don't do that kind of thing in an uncontrolled environment," he said.†   (source)
  • They'd rot in the warm, pressurized environment.†   (source)
  • In this environment, an enemy could appear from anywhere, dressed the same as a civilian.†   (source)
  • "The environment," Kohler ventured assuredly.†   (source)
  • I don't think this is a good environment for Tigger.†   (source)
  • It seemed that every time, every time, I adjusted to a new environment, something happened.†   (source)
  • We do it in a very environmentally friendly way.†   (source)
  • The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment.†   (source)
  • This is done to give players a familiar environment.†   (source)
  • A sign announced TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT Keep this door closed at all times.†   (source)
  • But he's adapted to his environment so well—the way he leaps from tree to tree.†   (source)
  • That's when I started to understand that I was in a different environment.†   (source)
  • The only thing that's changed for me is the environment.†   (source)
  • The environment would drive any sane man mad.†   (source)
  • Thrashers and nuclear fuzz-grunge collectives thrive in the same environment.†   (source)
  • Even my brother enjoyed success in this new environment.†   (source)
  • This is the real thing, and the environment is different.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure I want to expose Luke to that kind of environment.†   (source)
  • But they're also loud and attract attention in an urban environment.†   (source)
  • "Life improves the capacity of the environment to sustain life," his father said.†   (source)
  • But there are numerous examples of how man interferes in the environment.†   (source)
  • They handle a phenomenal amount of traffic in a very constrained environment.†   (source)
  • Plus you'd need perfect clone stock and an interactive environment precise to the last detail.†   (source)
  • It was into this volatile environment that I walked one evening.†   (source)
  • And it's not a healthy environment for kids.†   (source)
  • Sometimes there are threats from the environment that must be faced.†   (source)
  • Kamarov, you will go aft to work the environmental controls.†   (source)
  • Because they promise the mine won't harm the environment, and then the mine harms the environment.†   (source)
  • How the mind gears itself for its environment, she thought.†   (source)
  • The media has saturated the legal environment.†   (source)
  • I had to live in a cramped environment that was full of junk and reeked of body odor.†   (source)
  • Thanks to her, I learned to dream beyond my environment.†   (source)
  • The priest's environment pod was halfway up the treeship, far out on a secondary branch.†   (source)
  • For instance, I could say it's stupid to drive a car because cars pollute the environment.†   (source)
  • "Except urban is not an environment," argued Chuck.†   (source)
  • They're the foundation of the Trisolaran environment.†   (source)
  • It doesn't include the cost to the environment from manure, pesticide, and fertilizer pollution.†   (source)
  • Essentially, this pod is a sealed, energy-neutral environment.†   (source)
  • Some guys could make their suits match the environment but couldn't stay flat.†   (source)
  • He didn't even know whether I was going to a rural or urban environment.†   (source)
  • What kind of combat environment do you want to use Reason in?†   (source)
  • We had patients—sick patients—trying to live in that environment.†   (source)
  • It may be the reflection of nothing more than a minor change in the environment.†   (source)
  • Now that bond is free to grow in an environment of better conditions.†   (source)
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