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Hamid Karzai and advocated increased reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan rather than a continued Canadian combat role.

However, his renewed support for what he calls "regional peace", rather than a continued focus on the bilateral Syrian and Palestinian negotiations still represents a marked departure in Israeli diplomatic strategy.

This paper takes stock of our community's reconceptualization of computing through the material turn and then advocate a return to interaction rather than a continued concern for the material status of the computer.

In contrast to dogs and humans, elderly cats experience an increase in their maintenance energy requirements rather than a continued decline, which may be mediated partly through a better-maintained basal metabolic rate but also through progressive compromise in fat and protein digestion.

Moreover, even though improved breeding success on Lord Howe Island may slow the rate of FFSH population declines, our models clearly indicate that management strategies must include bycatch reduction if they are to achieve population growth rather than a continued spiral toward local extinction.

He has proposed genuine disarmament rather than a continuing arms race with Russia.

By suggesting that an attorney's pro bono obligations are discharged even before he or she engages in legal practice for "real clients," the new requirement will no doubt be taken by many lawyers as support for the largely unspoken proposition that pro bono work, like the bar exam, is merely a rite of passage rather than a continuing commitment.

In short, we may see evolutionary processes as a thing of the past rather than present and future; we may see evolutionary pattern as a merely historical phenomenon rather than a continuing, unending (except for taxa that go extinct) prospect.

She doubts the "creativeness" of natural selection, which she considers merely a filter (p. 16, 71) rather than a continuing feedback where organisms produce varied offspring which are tested by the environment, of which the best survive to repeat the process (Lorenz 1978, pp. 24, 27).

"I hope that will begin with Maria and me and Telemundo and other media organizations and others in this national debate that we should turn into a solution rather than a continuing debate and factional contest".

History is being re-written and kept from our children, replaced by a hazy and sanitized version of events that can make it sound as if the fight for racial equality is already over, with a happy ending, rather than a continuing struggle demanding continuing vigilance.