If, for instance, they really do close down Incirlik Air Force Base, we're going to be logistically blind in the north, and it would be extremely difficult for us to re-supply and to coordinate air strikes.
I've since found that to be true in blind tastings with winemakers around the world, but it is not something you are going to hear many of them admit.
Without the flight measurements, "we would be blind" to changes in the ice sheet, said the mission leader, Seelye Martin of the University of Washington in Seattle.
There will be no more blind faith in the markets.
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The procedure has been hailed as the first step in humans of efforts to be able to restore sight in blind people.
Opposition is fine, even necessary, but it has to be rooted in ideas, not blind ideology.
One would have to be blind, or have no friends in New York, London or Shanghai, to not realize that Silicon Valley is currently operating in a different reality.
It is essential that the global discussion in Rio not be blind to the potential solutions that access to voluntary family planning could offer to many of the world's problems.
Redbreast is heavy on fruit essences, figs, dates, and apples, and is unusually complex and big as Irish whiskies go, and is the one most likely to be confused with Scotch in a blind tasting.
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Lifeboat crews must be aged between 17 and 45, live or work in Cleethorpes, be physically fit and not colour blind.
Lady Justice in America is supposed to be blind.
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Gov. David Paterson, New York's first black lieutenant governor--who is also legally blind--is set to be sworn in as the state's 55th governor on Monday, and is in line to serve out the remainder of Spitzer's term, which runs until the end of December 2010.
Viewers will want to see if he lives up to the convention hype, because no matter how much your sister talks up your blind date, in the end he better be a good looker and kisser.
"It's going to be a big contest in the forwards, " said blind-side flanker Ormond, who was not considered for New Zealand Maori's international against Fiji in Suva on Friday in order to lead his province against the Lions.
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It sounded like this workshop was designed to find her greatest talents as well as her blind spots to any weaknesses that might be holding her back in her success as an artist.
Paul Swartz, the commission's executive director, said in a statement that "we would literally be flying blind" without the stream gauge data.
Blind and partially sighted people will also be given the chance to sit in the cab of a stationary bus.
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Mr. MARK RICHERT (American Foundation for the Blind): This proposed rule rather astonishingly says that it will be in place and applied to all technologies in the future, regardless of technological advancement or innovation.
He says that most of his assets, including a television channel and the biggest stake in Chile's national airline, have either been placed in a blind trust or, if he wins, will be sold before he takes office.
However, owners of guide dogs for the blind and hearing dogs for the deaf will also be able to bring their animals in from New Zealand and Australia.
"Instead of being deaf, dumb, and blind sitting on our desks or in our pockets, our computers might be able to observe what we do all day, understand what is important to us, and act as a virtual assistant who helps us on a second-by-second basis, " said Thad Starner, Associate Professor of the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech University.
While the apocalyptic view that we face an imminent inflationary depression may be reading too much into the tea leaves, relying on bad data is like flying blind in a storm.
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It wouldn't be fair to call this the blind leading the blind, but as the Morgan Stanley man admits in some of his humbler jottings, his act "is as much art as science" and subject to errant inputs.
To be clear, the problem is not with numerical and statistical methods, it is with their blind application in the absence of reason.
The Algerian border is close and porous enough to keep supplies of food, diesel and ammunition flowing in - as long as corrupt local officials can be bribed or forced to turn a blind eye.
If you were a venture capitalist, journalist or marketer setting off blind in a hunt for understanding about nanotechnology, Google's top several links would be a good start, but it doesn't help your mind categorize the ocean of data out there.
Posner believes his car could affordably reach the showrooms in 10 or 15 years, but that a fully blind person still wouldn't be able to drive it.
Mr Bezos was in town to promote, among other things, one of those innovations which some thought might be a blind alley, the Kindle Fire.
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