It tends to sow the seeds of negative sentiments across its community, employees, and also would-be users.

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In making charitable giving a cornerstone of its bowl game, the Chick-fil-A Bowl hopes to sow further seeds of giving.

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As you can see from the above chart, perhaps counterintuitively, spikes in prices tend to sow the seeds of their own decline.

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But there are other ways to sow the seeds of love in Evansville, which ranked No. 19 on our list of the most expensive cities for going on a first date.

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An important goal of our suggestions is to avoid solutions that sow the seeds of the next crisis.

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And I really do think there could be an opening for Windows Phone 8, particularly if Microsoft can sow seeds of doubt with the Android OEMs about the conflicts Google has in both supplying software to handset makers and competing with them at the same time.

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