• The Dutch and French, like the Germans, have sent fresh faces to the commission, though not people unfamiliar with its workings.

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  • "There was an enormous risk he had to take to go into a neighborhood he's unfamiliar with, into a house of people he's unfamiliar with and remove them in their own vehicle, " he says.

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  • At the time, people were unfamiliar with the concept of a computer password, which required structuring a scene early in the film in which the main character, played by Matthew Broderick, sneaks into his high-school principal's office to check out a piece of paper showing a list of random words.

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  • People are generally unfamiliar with the visual language thus perhaps this is why so-called optical illusions exist?

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  • But perhaps what really unnerves Indonesians is change itself - that a new set of people, with unfamiliar track records and little loyalty to old habits, are taking charge.

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  • The board voted last week to keep the name after an avalanche of criticism in November when it announced it was switching to the more generic Cancer Support Community Southwest Wisconsin, in part out of concern that young people today were unfamiliar with Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989.

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  • Privacy issues aside, the service could prove invaluable for people traveling alone in unfamiliar areas or dangerous situations.

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  • Tranquil it is out there... but it's the unfamiliar tranquility inside the conference hotel that has people talking intensely about what there is to talk about.

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  • Signs of a possible vehicle-borne improvised explosive attack are unfamiliar vehicles driving repeatedly around crowded areas, people taking videos or photos of these areas, cars without license plates or multiple fuel cans in the seat or trunk of a vehicle.

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  • For many people, nuclear power and its workings are unfamiliar, he said.

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  • The Assad regime is using a destructive and, sadly, not unfamiliar tactic as it attempts to destroy the livelihoods of the Syrian people.

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  • In this vein, researchers conducted a series of experiments to determine if people were more successful in negotiations that happened in their own offices than in unfamiliar locations.

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