The point is, deep inside this clump of amino acid chains, light converts to mechanical motion, which converts to a neuroelectrical signal, which in the brain becomes a conscious apprehension of color.
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If they miss this requirement, the grant converts to a loan.
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Instead, the court fined McGregor €1,000 ... which converts to roughly $1,116.
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Paint makers were willing converts to the cause, says Mr Gottesfeld.
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Some recent converts to plea bargains have adopted them with vim.
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After that, the balance typically converts to a fixed-rate loan.
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A bar room with a fireplace converts to a small cinema room.
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The president's brother, a Billy Carter-type figure, briefly converts to Islam.
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Even so, don't expect too many sudden converts to the value religion.
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Its price converts to just over $200 USD, which sounds about right.
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Social network for athletes converts to social network for your neighborhood, essentially.
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Now whether nor not that converts to policy, you know, I don't know.
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Now you see it The entire office converts to sleeping quarters for eight.
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They have ruled that female converts to Islam can keep their non-Muslim husbands.
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About 17 percent of them were female and 23 percent were converts to Islam.
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He is telling fabulous tales and winning new converts to his cult every day.
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Of course many converts to Trumpism were motivated simply by expediency, ambition, power worship.
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Following the scheduled amortisation maturity date, class A20163 converts to a pass-through bond.
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Flip a button, however, and it converts to a digital sketching/note-taking surface.
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The shogunate invites the Japanese converts to avoid torture by stepping on the fumie.
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In much the same way that Huysmans converted to Catholicism, François converts to Islam.
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It executes three- and four-thread stitches and easily converts to a rolled hem.
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Flyering is a way for their new converts to show their commitment while staying anonymous.
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Other Storm fans started off as Sonics fans, but became converts to the women's game.
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Curaleaf will raise the equity through a private placement that converts to a public company.
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Luckier still, it's all available for streaming now, and waiting for new converts to dive in.
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They come as campaigns look to turn out their loyalists and recent converts to the polls.
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But Lutheranism is ultimately unsatisfying, and he converts to Catholicism, the religion of Lockwood's mother, Karen.
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Moroccan authorities do not recognize Moroccan converts to Christianity, many of whom worship secretly in homes.
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How many millions more converts to the church of Apple do you think that will bring in?
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Highly flammable butane is cooled and stored as a liquid, but converts to gas at atmospheric temperatures.
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It is, after all, a sign that perhaps they are not yet full converts to Mourinho's mission.
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In 2013, she added a request for DHEA, which converts to steroids, including testosterone, in the bloodstream.
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A self-described metalhead, she says metal fans have become converts to mariachi after seeing Metalachi play.
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In early 2014, it chose a particularly complex machine, an HP laptop that converts to a tablet.
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The internet bursts with ways for LaCroix devotees, like sports fans or SoulCycle converts, to declare their loyalty.
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The leaders at the convention were slow converts to the revolutionary cause, spurred on by overwhelming populist sentiment.
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This vacuum is lightweight and portable and easily converts to a handheld for cleaning on a smaller scale.
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And if they let the battery run out, a 10-minute charge converts to three hours of playback.
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Among the defendants were two converts to Islam, both with long jihadi histories: Kévin Gonot and Léonard Lopez.
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Mr. Aman helped win converts to the Islamic State by translating its propaganda into Indonesian, Mr. Ismail said.
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Once it converts to a Roth, you won't owe any federal tax when you take it out later.
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The pits of peaches contain cyanogenic compounds, which the human body converts to cyanide, a poison, when consumed.
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To overcome this, UroGen developed RTGel, a liquid at lower temperatures that converts to a gel at body temperature.
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There are other protections through 2024, but it converts to two second-round picks if not conveyed by 2025.
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Hindu nationalists fume about "love jihad"—marriages between Hindus and Muslims in which the Hindu partner converts to Islam.
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He wasn't interested in being converted to anyone else's cause, and he didn't expect to win converts to his.
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The tournament, coming just before the Masters, should soon become a spring broadcasting fixture attracting more converts to golf.
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He told TechCrunch the company will focus more on creating converts to EVs than pulling away Tesla's existing market share.
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Linking them are what Mr. Sarfo called "clean men," new converts to Islam with no established ties to radical groups.
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Dan's father, Sy, buys them the house on two conditions: Sy gets to live there, and Sue converts to Judaism.
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Opponents of the idea says 5.550 billion naira would be spent, which converts to around $15.3 million in US currency.
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That converts to a 2200mm equivalent of 29-2200mm, which is way longer than the 93-29mm zoom on the RX220.1.
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The Mini was originally designed to win over new converts to OS X (now macOS) with the first sub-$500 Mac.
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Here's the catch: If your child doesn't stay in New York, the tuition-free scholarship converts to an interest-free loan.
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Saudi Arabia has spent millions of dollars to win converts to its strict form of Islam in Africa and gain influence.
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If things go right, the gas converts to an aerosol of particles that remain aloft and scatter sunlight for two years.
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The rally has come despite regulators across the globe taking a closer look at recent company converts to the blockchain name.
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It&aposs also TSA-approved and loaded with extras like a canopy bed and shoulder strap that converts to a leash.
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The decision converts to full approval an initial accelerated approval given to the drug in 2012 as a single agent, Amgen said.
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If you choose the latter, the trial converts to a $99 per year membership after the free period ends, unless you cancel.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Add BHP Billiton and vacuum-cleaner maker Dyson to the list of converts to the electric-vehicle revolution.
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In the end, the narrator, a scholar of French literature, happily converts to Islam and, even more happily, takes three young wives.
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They could do worse than to campaign for candidates who are late converts to, say, free college or genuine universal health care.
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None of these new converts to the Cruz camp seem to have any actual arguments about Cruz being a good potential president.
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The Guardian reports that going to Saudi Arabia to teach English is a common path for converts to extremism, citing security sources.
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There's a Muslim student named Ayisha (Hadeel Sittu) whose father kicks her out of the house when she secretly converts to Christianity.
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Life has not always been easy for long-established Christian denominations, along with a handful of Kurdish converts to Christianity, under Kurdish administration.
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Except that for every Bilal there are millions of other blacks, including converts to Islam, who have stayed trapped in servitude for generations.
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If Apple does indeed make the move to 18:9, it'll join Samsung and LG's G6 as notable converts to the taller ratio.
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The church was re-established in Italy in the 1950s, and it has grown from a handful of converts to the current 26,000.
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Converts to the cause also have a role: Sajid Javid, who has become a vocal supporter of leaving, was appointed chancellor of the exchequer.
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"For every pack of Marlboro that converts to Juul pods, Altria loses 100% of Marlboro and gains 35% of the Juul pod," Azer said.
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Glassdoor's own data indicates that these companies can offer monthly pay of over $9,000 per month, which converts to $108,000 on a yearly basis.
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If the results of conservatives' policy preference look less like efficiency and more like disorder, though, they will win few converts to the cause.
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The participants — mostly American-born converts to Islam — squeezed their eyes shut; some gently swayed, letting themselves be carried away by the rhythmic mantras.
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JERUSALEM — Critics of Israel's chief rabbinate have long complained that scores of American converts to Judaism have trouble getting approval to marry in Israel.
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Kids will get to slowly build trains over the month of December, and the box converts to a track for them to play on.
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In this account, the Queen of Sheba, otherwise known as the beautiful queen Makeda, journeys from Sheba to Jerusalem, where she converts to Judaism.
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In Part 2, Kit and Ahmed move to Beirut, she converts to Islam so they can marry and Ahmed becomes more and more secretive.
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In 2013, two British-born converts to Islam, of Nigerian descent, butchered Lee Rigby, a British soldier, in daylight on the streets of London.
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A Protestant married priest who converts to Catholicism can stay married while working as a priest, as long as he has his wife's permission.
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Converts to Christianity In 1995, McCorvey was working at a Dallas women's clinic when the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue moved its offices next door.
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"The caveats on this are that, of course, it's a mouse study, and whether or not that directly converts to humans is unclear," Marini says.
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" Almost all of the jihadists Bergen depicts are converts to Salafism, an ultrafundamentalist branch of Sunni Islam; as Bergen relates, their Salafism became "increasingly politicized.
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One is a student from China who shows up in Josh Wheaton's classroom in the first film and converts to Christianity after hearing his arguments.
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If the borrowing base is not renewed it converts to a term loan (typically four years) and the borrower now pays both interest and amortization.
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Stories like Brandon's and Juanito's are typical of communities like /r/polyphasic—message boards filled with perpetually energetic and enthusiastic converts to the restless church.
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Some speculate that, by the time of the Second Temple, many Jews were Hellenized, and early converts to Christianity were merely borrowing standard Dionysian rites.
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But at least in such "Saturation" paintings, Venet's reductionist ascetic quietism converts to a yes-saying mysticism that plays at the limits of factual clarity.
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JINN A teenager in Los Angeles (Zoe Renee) finds her confusion about her identity thrown into relief when her mother (Simone Missick) converts to Islam.
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The symbolic pinprick is modeled on the longstanding Jewish tradition used when a non-Jewish child has been secularly circumcised and then converts to Judaism.
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In the South, the International Monetary Fund forced market reforms on indebted post-Communist countries, and some former Communist elites proved eager converts to neoliberalism.
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The Performance Center, which will be used for conventions and concerts, converts to a 240,500-seat indoor football arena and has an outdoor practice field.
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One of its most clever features is a hydration reservoir that converts to a fast and light daypack with a shoulder harness and accessory pocket.
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Today, Mr. Mohammad, 25, has a cross on his wall and invites other recent converts to weekly Bible readings in his purple-walled living room.
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In 20 Minute Metropolis, when you finish digging up a mountain, harvesting farmland, or cutting down a forest, the tile converts to a blank grassland tile.
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The picture is mixed: about a decade ago, a segment of America's evangelical leadership became converts to the idea that global warming was an urgent problem.
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Ferreira also says the number of converts to Islam in Brazil is on the rise, and that disaffected urban youth may be prone to ISIS propaganda.
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This is the biggest and least talked about development in traditional print media as it converts to digital: It now has ratings, just as television does.
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It could make it harder for them to win any new converts to the idea that the investigation is without merit and needs to wind down.
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For example, according to a report from George Washington University, approximately 40 percent of those arrested on terrorism-related charges in 2015 were converts to Islam.
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A convertible note is a financial instrument that is issued first as debt, but then converts to equity under predetermined conditions, such as raising a priced round.
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While the offer seems pretty straight-forward, there is a catch: you should be earning at least €7,500 per year, which converts to roughly just under $9,000.
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The Patriots also had a pair of two-point converts to force the first overtime in Super Bowl history and leave the Falcons and their fans stunned.
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One Indian Rupee converts to roughly one and a half cents, which means you can grab a pint of the popular local Kingfisher beer for about $1.50.
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For example, it has often been interpreted to mean simply that converts to Islam must adopt the faith freely, if the act is to have any merit.
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This converts to about 15.6 million tonnes – a few percentage points lower than the volume of corn shipped last season by the world's No. 4 supplier, Ukraine.
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"Obviously no genetic markers change when someone converts to Judaism, or when the territory where someone lives is annexed by a neighboring country," Pickrell writes on Medium.
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For newer converts to the Republican coalition, limited government primarily meant government not taking their money so that poor black people could get a generous welfare check.
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The latter is an instrument - hybrid bonds that combines debt and equity elements - which automatically converts to equity once the bank's buffer ratio falls below 7 percent.
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The Graco Affix gives you options, including a high-back version that converts to a backless booster and a backless version that's easy to use and install.
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When Mr. Sanders returns to the campaign, he may find what was already his biggest challenge — finding new converts to his mission — to be even more difficult.
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And now that we've arrived at an iPhone model essentially designed with video creators in mind, there are sure to be a lot more director converts to come.
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Council leaders say the number of registered Muslim voters could be even higher as many converts to Islam maintain names not traditionally associated with the the Muslim faith.
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During Saturday's service, he baptized 11 people, most of them adult converts to Catholicism, from Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, the United States, Albania, Malta, Malaysia and China.
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Again, Wray's explanatory discretion is an advantage, letting him bypass the hysteria of inquiry, the dunning "Why?" that tends to dominate in cases of Western converts to Islam.
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More typically, Tesla sells debt that converts to equity or simply issues more shares, as it announced last month it would do to the tune of $2 billion.
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John Nuttall and his girlfriend Amanda Korody, recent converts to Islam, were found guilty of conspiring to commit murder and possessing bombs for a terrorist group last June.
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The food bloggers behind popular recipe sites like Nom Nom Paleo were early converts to electric pressure-cooking, and cookbook authors took note of the device's cult appeal.
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Pros: Slick faux leather design, converts to a stand or pad, charges some Galaxy phones fast, works with most Qi compatible phonesCons: Expensive, might be hard to align
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A 10-day subscription is available, before it converts to the $1.99 per month limited promotion, followed by the $4.99 per month price point when the promotion ends.
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They use the religious freedom in the West, for example, to seek converts to Islam, while condemning converts from Islam to another religion as "apostates" who deserve death.
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South African gay and lesbian groups collected more than 60,000 signatures opposing his visit this weekend, when he was expected to preach and seek converts to his church.
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It's not all the same, of course: While Microsoft's solution is a desktop that converts to a high-definition touch and pen input slate, Dell has the two separated.
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Four years after getting caught cheating emissions standards with millions of diesel-powered cars, Volkswagen has become the most (outwardly, at least) zealous of converts to an electric future.
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The roll includes a few expected names—Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota—but also more recent converts to the cause, proving the policy no longer belongs to the fringe.
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The couple, who said they were converts to Islam, came to the attention of the police initially after a neighbor complained that Mr. Nuttall was making violent "Islamic" statements.
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The plan will include improving efficiency of its operations and bringing suppliers on board, as it converts to wind, solar, and hydro power for its manufacturing, according to Green.
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By that point, the role of the I.I.Y.C. had become a sort of advance guard, taking risks and pushing actions forward and winning new young converts to the cause.
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As Africa continues to urbanize, converts to smartphones, and discretionary consumer spending continues to rise—it all adds up to suggest strong potential for conversion to on-demand mobility services.
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The relationship between Shylock and his daughter Jessica, who converts to Christianity, becomes central: In the closing seconds, she is heard, wracked with regret, reciting the Kaddish for her father.
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If I wanted to recruit converts to that dogma, Impact would be Exhibit A, and not just because you have to walk around these free-standing objects to comprehend them.
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A Westerner who converts to Islam is making a self-conscious move in a diametrically opposite direction: accepting non-negotiable rules in respect of diet, dress, sexual and social behaviour.
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Rory Stewart, an international development minister and former diplomat, said converts to the terror group should expect to be killed because of the "serious danger" they posed to British security.
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Our rice paddy model simulates how mercury changes form, accumulates and converts to methylmercury in different parts of the ecosystem, including in the water, the soil and the rice plants.
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Mr. Pryce's confusion and abasement are painful to watch, as Antonio seems to relish his control over his persecutor's fate, allowing him to live only if he converts to Christianity.
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"Then the loan converts to an installment loan amortized over 10 or 15 more years," he said, adding that some lenders require a minimum draw when the loan is taken out.
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The moody bar converts to a screening room thanks to digital projector that rises out of the floor, while a private exercise room can be found on the mansion's top level.
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Roku says users can now opt into a free seven-day HBO trial in The Roku Channel, which then converts to a $14.99 per month subscription if the trial isn't cancelled.
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John Nuttall and his girlfriend Amanda Korody, recent converts to Islam, were found guilty last June for possessing explosive devices for a terrorist group and conspiring to commit murder in 2013.
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Newcastle hasn't been the easiest place to find converts to the Neapolitan way, and Kitchin says he is not in the business of "pandering" to the pale, stodgy Northern status quo.
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Though his adventures vary in different traditions, the "Saracen" (Muslim) knight Sir Palomides is an important character who is renowned for his chivalry and converts to Christianity only late in life.
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But most importantly, Bilqīs is so impressed by the profound wisdom and faith of Solomon, that she converts to monotheistic worship and brings the word of Allah back to her people.
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She's so disappointed by her origins that she converts to Catholicism: partly as a form of rebellion, but also to access what she calls a "web of connections," an instant family.
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"When a cafe converts to delivery, we see a comp lift almost immediately, but it takes six to nine months to get to break even and start generating incremental profit," Shaich said.
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But there is a, there is a radicalized element within Islam that is causing chaos, death, misery, and want a caliphate where everybody converts to their way or they will be killed.
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Tools can help brands determine whether clicking from an Instagram post converts to an actual online sale, or whether a consumer actually goes to buy that product at CVS or Duane Reade.
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Vancouver couple John Nuttall and Amanda Korody, both recent converts to Islam, were convicted last year for plotting to attack BC government buildings with pressure-cooker bombs on Canada Day in 2013.
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Rob Portman of Ohio, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin as potential Republican converts to at least convening hearings on a Supreme Court nominee.
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Some prominent scholars allow female converts to keep non-Muslim husbands; a few congregations conduct weekly prayers on Sundays, because the faithful go to work on Fridays; there are even women-led mosques.
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I had asked Shiva about Golden Rice, a genetically modified variety of rice developed to contain beta-carotene in the edible part of the grain, which then converts to vitamin A when consumed.
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A British Soldier Killed on a London Street Two British-born converts to Islam killed Lee Rigby, an army bandsman and machine-gunner, as he walked down the street in London in 2013.
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Having barely survived the Holocaust, Paul and Anna Ornstein might have been among the least likely converts to an evolving psychoanalytical movement that views the world more positively than traditional Freudian analysis does.
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It's the combination of molecules touching these little pieces of brain, and how many of the molecules, that the brain's olfactory cortex somehow converts to a scent—the difference between, say, pine and laurel.
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Designed to look like a home, it will feature a 12-seat dining table that converts to a pool table and contemporary art on the walls, all presided over by a watch-savvy host.
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Another thing I love about the Griffin is that instead of a removable lid that awkwardly converts to a hip pack, it has a quick-release "flying squirrel" daypack that clips off in seconds.
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The driver is then rewarded on a points system with Amazon, Nike, or Target gift cards; each mile traveled corresponds to a specific number of points, which then converts to a specific number of dollars.
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A 28-inch all-in-one PC that converts to a drafting table for digital artists, the Surface Studio is a stunning computer that changes perceptions on what a PC can look like or do.
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The group also got a boost from one of its top five shareholders, Lindsell Train, which said ahead of the announcement that it would stick with the firm while it converts to a digital future.
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She earns "a couple of hundred thousand yuan" (100,000 yuan converts to around $14,500) a day before the money is split, broadcasting to between 50,000 and 100,000 people during sessions that last around eight hours.
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Stewart's comments come just days after the U.K.'s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Max Hill, urged U.K. authorities to look at ways in which British converts to ISIS could be reintegrated back into society.
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Some social media exchanges among new converts to the vegan and animal rights movements can become particularly virulent, he said, and those people may be motivated to extremism by graphic slaughterhouse videos posted by activists.
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Utah's Deer Valley Resort and Cooper in Colorado are among the recent converts to R.F.I.D. technology, a change that allows a guest to keep their lift ticket in their pocket, rather than have it scanned.
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All of this is on top of Iran's already shoddy human rights record, which includes numerous cases of executing gays, jailing and beating women who don't cover their hair, and persecuting Muslim converts to Christianity.
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But bankruptcy experts often advise customers to spend store gift cards quickly when a retailer files for bankruptcy because those gift cards can be rendered effectively worthless if the restructuring converts to an all-out liquidation.
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Loras Tyrell, meanwhile, goes by the book, confesses his sins, converts to the Faith (+15) and abandons his lordship (-403.) He does not get to go free, though, until Cersei's trial is over, which, well, bummer.
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Modern internet-based recruitment efforts are designed around the creation of a frictionless pipeline that slowly inoculates potential converts to hate — like putting a bunch of would-be Pepe the Frogs in a slowly boiling pot.
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What might come as a bit of shock, though, is that after four years of renting the apartment at $22,000 a month, he is considering purchasing the unit when the building converts to condominiums in 2018.
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They represented the final opportunity for House impeachment managers to sway any potential Republican converts to their side, though there are only a few who seem like they could even vaguely be contenders at this point.
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It understands what was good about the original, and effectively transports old fans and new converts to the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition...and welcomes them back to The Twilight Zone.
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In the case of cultural litmus test issues, Olsen argues, newly recruited white working-class converts to Trump's Republican Party do not consider conservative dogma on gay rights, abortion, gender identity, or traditional marriage their priority.
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According to statistics cited by Mr. Afzal, one-third of those convicted of Islamist-related offenses in Britain from 2001 to 53 were converts to Islam, who account for only 1 percent of the Muslim community.
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While the feature alone may not be enough to win converts to the Pixel (except perhaps for night owls), it is almost shockingly good and one of the most impressive recent camera improvements from any phone maker.
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Brown says that he sees California's water utilities and agribusiness as future converts to his cause and imagines a day when forest restoration could be paid for by a couple of extra cents on everyone's water bill.
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Virus concerns aside, Qorvo's 5G content story remains compelling, the stock's valuation remains reasonable despite recent gains, and we do see a path to higher earnings power, particularly as the high volume handset tier converts to 5G.
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Most companies offer a free trial period so you can sample the streams, but if you decide a service is not for you, be sure to cancel your temporary membership before it converts to a monthly fee.
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The new money is coming in the form of a convertible note — a type of loan that eventually converts to an equity stake — and is meant to hold the company over until it can become cash-flow positive.
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White reportedly ventured out in PyeongChang to sample a burger named after the red-headed snowboarder—it's called "The Flying Tomato" burger—that costs one million won (South Korea's currency), which converts to roughly $920 in U.S. dollars.
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As a mental health professional, I suggest that potential converts to the KonMari method choose to follow the tips that fit their lifestyle and don't feel guilty if they are unable to live up to the KonMari ideal.
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Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre said he worries if 20-25% of the ecosystem is destroyed that the Amazon could reach a tipping point, after which it would enter a self-sustaining period of dieback as the forest converts to savannah.
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In a conversation with Jennifer Palmieri, the campaign's director of communications, John Halpin, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic thinktank, characterised the beliefs of conservative converts to Catholicism as "an amazing bastardisation of the faith".
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The maker of gas stoves, boilers and pipelines said it expects to double the number of households it converts to run on gas this year, as Beijing ramps up its campaign to wean the nation off its favourite fuel, coal.
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Youthful converts to left-wing politics may not know exactly what policies democratic socialism would consist of, from the nitty-gritty details of participatory decision-making structures to the role of markets in a world where capital no longer rules.
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Charlotte MaloneySalt Lake City To the Editor: Senator Kamala Harris and the other Democratic presidential candidates who are recent converts to progressive positions on key issues are clearly following the Barack Obama model: Run to the left, govern from the center.
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Some progressive Catholics have even begun expressing a previously tacit resentment of the hard-right zeal of evangelical, Calvinist and Protestant converts to Catholicism, among them Newt Gingrich, the husband of Callista Gingrich, the new American ambassador to the Holy See.
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As migrants from a Muslim-majority country working in non-Muslim territories, Indonesian maids and nannies in Hong Kong or Singapore radicalize for different reasons than either Indonesian helpers in the Middle East or converts to jihad in the West.
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The Islam in "Submission" is largely a fantasy designed, by Houellebecq, to appeal to someone just like Houellebecq, with lavishly funded universities, fantastic meze, freely flowing French and Lebanese wines, and multiple teen wives for every intellectual who converts to Islam.
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" When Ali was in graduate school he began to "question the divinity of Jesus" and "why I was taught, told, and instructed to pray to Jesus, instead of God," he wrote in a book titled, "Short Stories by American Converts to Islam.
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Later converts to the church of Apple will have their own stories of discovery, and those too shall have their place in pantheon of Apple lore, but those who saw it first, those who were there, they will forever share an unbreakable bond.
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My server expressed an enthusiasm about the poussin — plunged into the tandoor in one piece after marinating in vinegar, yogurt, fresh red chiles and kala namak, the sulfurous black salt of India — that you typically find in new converts to a cult.
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But while numbers are difficult to come by, conversions to Christianity are probably more than matched by internal ones between Sunni, Shia, Ahmadi and other forms of Islam in countries like Egypt and Pakistan, often involving grave risks for converts to minority sects.
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And as Huawei has done in past, there's also an even more expensive Porsche Design version of the Mate 20 Pro with a leather back, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage for a whopping 1,700 euros, which converts to just shy of $2,000. Yikes.
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The film, which boasts rave reviews and a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score, stars newcomer Zoe Renee as Summer, a carefree teen in Los Angeles whose world and world-view suddenly change when her mother converts to Islam and invites her along on the spiritual journey.
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A weighted blanket applies pressure to the body throughout the night, creating a sense of calm and "grounding" that relaxes the nervous system, encourages dopamine and serotonin production (which later converts to melatonin, making you sleepy), and actually measurably reduces or eliminates pain and stress.
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That's a bummer because between its specs, price (which at 69,9oo rupees converts to about $1,000 U.S.), and other things like its neat swivel stand hinge, the OnePlus TV seems like it would be welcome competition to similar products from brands like TCL and Vizio.
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"I'm very glad, very glad really, that members who had strongly opposed, even legally challenged, Mario Draghi's decisions and OMT have become belated but vigorous converts to this view," Macron told reporters ironically on Friday when asked if Weidmann would be a good ECB president.
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"Uspud" — perhaps a parody of Flaubert's "Temptation of St. Anthony," the program notes suggest — is fitted with an elaborate scenario in which Uspud, a persecutor of Christians, converts to Christianity only to be torn apart by demons, his soul thus freed to join Christ in heaven.
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The New Testament's Book of Acts tells us that in Jerusalem the first converts to the proclamation of the risen Christ affirmed their new faith by living in a single dwelling, selling their fixed holdings, redistributing their wealth "as each needed" and owning all possessions communally.
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"I am very proud of what we achieved so far, for the well-being of children," Trump told the crowd Tuesday inside the Las Vegas theater venue where the town hall was held -- and which in the evenings converts to the concert stage for singer Barry Manilow.
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Pros: Clean, modern design; lightweight; rigid frame keeps its shape; plenty of pockets; converts to a bedCons: Expensive, zipper at the top is tricky, privacy side panels can&apost be partially retractedThe Wild One Air Travel Carrier is currently backordered and will resume shipping on December 16.
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Appetite for the bonds, which offer investors juicy returns in exchange for the risk that the bond stops paying out and converts to equity when a bank runs into trouble, had collapsed in February amid concerns that Germany's Deutsche Bank might fail to make some payments on its debts.
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Photo: XiaomiFinally, even though Xiaomi bills the Mi Mix Alpha as a concept device, like previous members of the Mi Mix family, Xiaomi actually has plans to sell the Mi Mix Alpha (in limited numbers) starting this fall December for 19,999 yuan, which converts to a whopping $2,800.
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Converts to Islam are disproportionately represented among Americans and Europeans drawn to extremism, and other ideologies also motivate mass violence — as in the case of Dylann Roof, who was 21 when he fatally shot nine black people last year at a church in Charleston, S.C., in the name of white supremacy.
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Over time, non-Arab converts to Islam were assimilated into Arab-Muslim society through tribal "clientage," which Abd Al-Aziz Duri describes in The Historical Formation of the Arab Nation, as "help[ing] to promote both the spread of Arabic and the expansion of Arabisation," while slavery became rampant and unfettered.
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Of the Shakers, an American religious community that demanded celibacy of its members and thus relied on converts to survive, only two are said to be left, and their culinary legacy — of simple, thrifty recipes that made use of nature's bounty, and of pioneering techniques in preserving and canning produce — remains largely unknown.
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While President Rodrigo Duterte focused his energies during his first year in office on waging a brutal campaign against suspected drug dealers and users, a motley coalition supporting the Islamic State — former guerrillas, university students, scions of political families, Christian converts to Islam — grew into a fighting force with surprising staying power.
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Scientists from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia have made a dark gold-colored banana that is rich in pro-vitamin A, which the body converts to vitamin A. They think it could help save some of the hundreds of thousands of children who die every year from a deficit in the vitamin.
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"Meat consumption triggers bacteria within the gut to produce a substance that the liver converts to the toxic product TMAO, which [at high levels] increases cholesterol, which could up your risk of cardiovascular disease," White says, explaining that plant-based diets produce little to no TMAO and their high fiber content promotes growth of healthy bacteria within the gut.
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"Following the Spanish Reconquista, when Muslims and Jews were forcibly converted or expelled, those that remained as new converts to Christianity were often required to consume pork as evidence of authenticity [and] sincerity to their new religion," explains Engy Abdelkader, a Georgetown professor and author of a May report on the rise of Islamophobic violence in 2016.
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The bedrooms will be larger — from 90 to 187 square feet — than those in most new developments, Mr. Bledsoe said, and include convertible furniture that borrows from micro-living, like a bed that converts to a sofa (mattresses will be flippable, with harder and softer sides), a wall-mounted smart television and a built-in armoire.
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While state regulations vary, evictions are usually allowed when a resident fails to pay facility charges, doesn't follow a facility's rules or becomes a danger to self or others; when a facility converts to another use or closes; and when management decides a resident's needs exceed its ability to provide care -- a catchall category that allows for considerable discretion.
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The network hopes that these activists will learn how to make a compelling, personal pitch to win over new converts to the cause, and that if volunteers are grounded in a strong philosophical understanding of free-market principles, they will be better prepared not only to explain their beliefs but also to ward off candidates, like Mr. Trump, who do not espouse their vision.
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In the U.S., former President George W. Bush was seen by the Christian right as a way to push a conservative Christian agenda while in the U.K., his then-counterpart Tony Blair (incidentally, both Bush and Blair were religious converts to a certain extent; Bush was born again as an evangelical Christian in 1985 and Blair who converted to Catholicism) was discouraged from expressing views on his personal faith.
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