And like locals everywhere, their Malaysian hosts look down on them as supplanters of local labour and probable criminals.

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More worldly feminists look down on them because they wear headscarves.

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To complement these ground-based measurements, which can focus on only a limited area, the team will conduct aerial surveys once a year at each core site, looking at things like leaf chemistry and the health of forest canopies, and will also look down on them with satellites.

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And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.

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Sunnis tend to look down on Shias as schismatics and even heretics, and Sunni governments often exclude them from plum jobs or deprive their areas of funding.

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And that aesthetic is not limited just to its form, but is found in the details as well--right down to the grooves on the door handles, which make them look as fast and sleek as airplane wings.

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Nixon's original insight remains as true now as it was in the late 1960s: lots of liberals do, indeed, look down on flyover Americans as stump-toothed imbeciles and, for some strange reason, lots of flyover Americans resent them for it.

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