The judge ruled that his argument the woman willingly had sex with him could not be trusted, as she was almost unconscious because of alcohol.

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According to Rotella, the trap, grass and creek are just distractions, manifestations of my self-critical conscious brain, which needs to be sublimated in favor of my more intuitive and instinctual unconscious brain.

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The definition of a concussion does not require a player to be unconscious and motored off the field.

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Now business leaders who may be inclined to lose it during challenging moments could be able to justify their behavior in a couple of different, conscious and unconscious, ways.

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These negative associations tend to be unacknowledged, and there is evidence that they are unconscious, as in the case of executives who demand creativity but continue to reject creative ideas.

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If you heard that six teens had beaten up another teen leaving him unconscious, would you think that those accused deserved to be tried as adults and face upwards of 80 years in jail?

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Even though, by any way we can calculate it, he would almost certainly have been a complete nightmare to be around paranoid, shaky, unreliable and, a good part of the time, so deeply unconscious that the primary method of moving from one location to another would have been being dragged by the ankles we still have a slight cultural frisson of "How cool!"

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