Sentence examples for frontier from inspiring English sources

Instead, it was attempting to assuage concerns about the misuse of genetic information, hoping it would make people more comfortable participating in genetic research and taking advantage of genetic medicine, often cited as the next frontier in healthcare.

Such control would be clumsy and expensive and involve a new shadow frontier with western Ukraine that could be a continued source of unwanted, as opposed to manipulated, troubles.

They scour the world for investments and try to invest on the "efficient frontier", where you can get the perfect ­balance of high returns and low risk.

As founder and chief executive, the 47-year-old Bezos has taken his retailer from a Seattle garage to the frontier of publishing.

The Myall Creek Massacre, as it came to be known, was not the first of the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of such crimes that unfolded across the colonial frontier between the first inhabitants, soldiers, settlers, vigilante groups and Indigenous "black police".

Some European commentators, from early frontier explorers to modern anthropologists, also were influenced by their own homophobic prejudices to distort native attitudes.

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But in a place called Puerto Maldonado, a forest-frontier town in south-eastern Peru, a woman told me a story about a scientist who disappeared in terrifying circumstances.

The more no-go areas there are, the further away from the efficient ­frontier they will find themselves.

And now the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has fought for digital civil liberties since 1990, has launched a campaign to eradicate digital rights management (DRM) called Apollo 1201, referring to the section of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that prevents users tampering with the digital locks on the things they own, such as books, music and movies.

He spent three and a half years at the consultancy Frontier Economics before returning – "without a moment's hesitation" – to run the IFS.