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act and evolved
In 1970, the act evolved into the Pink Fairies, which carried on in a similar vein.
The concept of “ reciprocal altruism ”, as introduced by Trivers, suggests that altruism, defined as an act of helping someone else although incurring some cost for this act, could have evolved since it might be beneficial to incur this cost if there is a chance of being in a reverse situation where the person whom I helped before may perform an altruistic act towards me.
" Consequently, over the years Burke " evolved a fervently demonstrative stage act ", that were often compared with religious revival meetings.
The result was the document " Basic Values for Guards " ( Handlingsnorm för väktare ), a list of 20 theses describing how a security guard should act, which over the years has evolved into the group's current basic values for employees guide.
In an evolved star with a pure helium atmosphere, the electric field would have to lift a helium nucleus ( an alpha particle ), with nearly 4 times the mass of a proton, while the radiation pressure would act on 2 free electrons.
There is currently debate in the field of evolutionary psychology whether an innate, evolved sex difference exists between men and women in response to an act of infidelity ; this is often called a " sex difference ".
To counteract these viruses, some bacteria have evolved restriction systems which only recognize and cleave modified DNA, but do not act upon the host's unmodified DNA.
As the political status of Lebanon evolved, the Banque de Syrie, which was to act as the official bank for Lebanon and Syria, was renamed the Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban ( BSL ).
In 1970, the act evolved into the Pink Fairies, which carried on in a similar vein.
The term has since evolved to encompass a variety of preferences for the act, which may or may not imply particular attitudes towards other sexual activities.
In recent years, the law of premises liability has evolved to include cases where a person is injured on the premises of another by a third person's wrongful act, such as an assault.
Technological development is taken over by the machines, who can think, act and communicate so quickly that normal humans cannot even comprehend what is going on ; thus the machines, acting in concert with those humans who have evolved into postbiological cyborgs, achieve effective world domination.
Originally they were made of a single ball placed in the vagina, used to enhance the act of coitus, but then evolved into multiple metal covered balls linked by either a chain or silk string for easy removal.
" Flying fish have evolved abnormally large pectoral fins that act as airfoils and provide lift when the fish launches itself out of the water.
The office of Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba came into being in 1870, upon Manitoba's entry into Canadian Confederation, and evolved from the earlier position of Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories, though the occupants continued to simultaneously act as Lieutenant Governors of the Northwest Territories and later as Lieutenant Governors of Keewatin District, until the latter was divided into Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1905.
Bush was a Canadian rock band in the early 1970s, which evolved from the respected club act Mandala.
Arness's Matt thus naturally evolved into a " strong, silent " type of man who tended to act rather than talk at length about possible courses of action.
The Iowa Gambling Task upholds this evolutionary theory by demonstrating that lesions to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex act as a blockade to the emotional decision-making signals that have evolved help humans make quick and beneficial decisions.

act and Keaton
By the time he was 21, his father's alcoholism threatened the reputation of the family act, so Keaton and his mother, Myra, left for New York, where Buster Keaton's career swiftly moved from vaudeville to film.
Some individuals, such as Buster Keaton, Harry Houdini, Jackie Chan, Akshay Kumar, Tony Jaa, and Jayan act as both stunt performers and daredevils at various parts of their career.
Reunited with an old partner ( Keaton ), Calvero gives a triumphant comeback performance but immediately suffers a heart attack and dies in the wings while just a few feet away Terry, the second act on the bill, dances on stage.

act and learned
Together they learned to act in local theater productions and circus arts at Union Settlement, one of the city's oldest settlement houses.
In 1816, Congress passed another bill to charter a second national bank ; Madison signed the act, having learned the bank was needed from the war with Britain.
Moreover, having lived with two such godless persons as Ahab and Jezebel without learning to act as they did, he seemed the most suitable person to prophesy against Esau ( Edom ), who, having been brought up by two pious persons, Isaac and Rebekah, had not learned to imitate their good deeds.
" If I have learned a formula in gibberish which in any way jogs my memory so as to enable me in each single case to act as though I had a general idea, what possible utility is there in distinguishing between such a gibberish ... and an idea?
Of what other man have we learned from history that by a single act he caused himself to surpass all the commanders, his city all the other Greek states, and the Greeks the barbarians?
Passengers on the plane learned the fates of the other hijacked planes through telephone calls ; some decided to act, fearing their plane, too, would be used as a missile.
The offer was withdrawn, and after Howard, Fine and Howard learned of the reason, they left Healy to form their own act, which quickly took off with a tour of the theater circuit.
Apraxia ( from the Greek root word praxis, for an act, work, or deed, preceded by an privative a, meaning without ) is characterized by loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned purposeful movements, despite having the desire and the physical ability to perform the movements.
This was deliberate, as the authors of the act had learned from experience that distinguishing between categories of significance for such incentives caused the lowest category to become expendable.
A prototype is an early sample or model built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.
The final act then ensues, with the last line usually showing the lesson learned that day, a final commercial, and then Billy Mills ' theme song to fade.
Meanwhile, Tiger and Rennick have learned that the general they were to contact was supposedly injured, but the hospital where he has been taken is under SS guard ; without him, the other German officers cannot and will not act.
Wilder learned that he could not introduce an act allowing only for the incorporation of Hickory Withe as this would be rejected by the courts as unconstitutional, so it was necessary for any act to help Hickory Withe to incorporate to be worded in a broad enough fashion to allow any similar area in Tennessee which also desired to incorporate to do so as well.
According to the reminiscences of Isaac Odell, a former minstrel who described the development of the genre in an interview given in 1907, Rice appeared onstage at Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1830s and learned there to mimic local black speech: " Coming to New York he opened up at the old Park Theatre, where he introduced his Jim Crow act, impersonating a negro slave.
" When I really learn to act, I may take what I have learned back to Hollywood and display it on the screen ", she said in an interview in October 1936 ( when she was doing Stage Door on Broadway between movies ).
But Akiva was just as firmly convinced that the power of the patriarch must be limited both by the written and the oral law, the interpretation of which lay in the hands of the learned ; and he was accordingly brave enough to act in ritual matters in Gamaliel's own house contrary to the decisions of Gamaliel himself.
In more modern times, pharmacists advise patients and health care providers on the selection, dosages, interactions, and side effects of medications, and act as a learned intermediary between a prescriber and a patient.
He was opposed to the new trend of separating actors and voice actors, even in the face of emerging voice actors like Genzō Wakayama, who learned how to act using their voice and never set foot in a theater.
When MacNeill learned about the IRB's plans, and when he was informed that Roger Casement was about to land in County Kerry with a shipment of German arms, he was reluctantly persuaded to go along with them, believing British action was now imminent and mobilisation of the Volunteers would, at this stage, be a defensive act.
Shankly admitted the act was wrong but it was " devilment more than badness " and the root cause was their constant hunger, but he insists that he and his friends learned from their mistakes and became " better people in the long run ".
When Demetrius learned of this, he considered it an act of insubordination, which ended their relationship.
Leo and Piper attempt to wed in secret during a solar eclipse, a phenomenon which prevents those " Up There " from looking down on Earth, but are caught in the act when The Elders are informed of the wedding by The Triad ( who have replaced The Council ), who in turn learned of the wedding through their demonic spy Cole Turner ( Julian McMahon ).
Gradually, Piper learned to control this ability and freeze everything in the immediate area by a conscious act of will and gesturing.

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