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County jails used to be just stopovers for inmates headed to state prisons. But as Arkansas' state facilities have reached capacity, jails are increasingly being used to hold prisoners long term.
Elizabeth Flock
Long
Increasingly
State
Facilities
Headed
Arkansas
Long-Term
Term
County
Reached
Prisoners
Prisons
Just
Jails
Being
Hold
Capacity
Used
Being Used
I've been involved in politics for quite some time. I've held positions, and my experiences are very deep, and I think I have the capacity, the courage, and the character to institute the kinds of reforms that are so desperately needed.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Politics
Time
Character
Courage
Think
Positions
Desperately
Kinds
Some
Institute
Involved
Been
Very
Reforms
Quite
Quite Some Time
Experiences
Capacity
Held
Deep
Needed
The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.
Ellen Stofan
Solar
Universe
Appreciating
Incredible
Our
Solar System
Our Planet
System
Wonder
Public
Capacity
Planet
It's obvious that Pemex doesn't have the financial capacity to be in every single front of energy generation.
Enrique Pena Nieto
Generation
Financial
Single
Energy
Every
Obvious
Front
Capacity
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond
Time
Home
Internet
Power
First
Machines
Ten
Ten Years
Could
Individual
Hackers
Environment
Development
Supporting
Talking
First Time
Years
Afford
Storage
Capable
Capacity
Full
Engines
Comparable
Earlier
UNIX
You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity.
Erica Durance
You
Yourself
Human Being
Whatever
Control
Laugh
Learn
Another
Go
Human
Just
Being
Cannot
Capacity
Flow
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Erich Fromm
Art
Science
Creation
Puzzled
Capacity
Premise
Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.
Ertharin Cousin
Hope
Food
Needs
People
Goals
Achieve
Our
Crisis
More
Supporting
Most
Vulnerable
Provide
Shock
Moving
Them
Capacity
Next
Even
Resilient
Assistance
I believe Betsy DeVos has the talent, commitment, and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity that excellent education provides, and I support her nomination as U.S. Secretary of Education.
Eva Moskowitz
Education
Leadership
Commitment
Opportunity
Public Schools
Believe
Our
Secretary
Promise
Excellent
Deliver
Support
Talent
Schools
Nomination
Provides
Public
Capacity
Her
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
Eve Ensler
Change
People
Inspire
Revolution
Incredible
Address
Issues
Move
Theater
Social
Social Change
Capacity
For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.
Felicity Jones
Remember
Everyone
Way
Has-Been
Brother
Some
Part
Around
Cousins
Sounds
Were
Been
Very
Which
Capacity
Then
Wars
Old-Fashioned
Star
Star Wars
Lives
Player
Early
Watching
China... has the capacity to ensure its stability and growth.
Francois Hollande
Ensure
Stability
China
Capacity
Growth
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Francoise Sagan
Love
Girl
Every
Increases
About
Only
Knows
Because
Little
Capacity
Little Girl
Suffer
Her
I can do a whole project with Madlib and turn around and do a record with Gucci Mane. Gucci Mane, E-40, and Black Thought on the same record. I like all those rappers, so why can't I work with them in some type of capacity? It just speaks to my versatility. I don't just listen to one type of rap. I listen to all of it so I can make all of it.
Freddie Gibbs
Work
Thought
Black
Gucci
Type
Project
Those
Rap
Rappers
Record
Some
Like
Make
Around
Versatility
Same
Listen
Just
Them
Turn
Capacity
Speaks
Whole
Why
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Frederick Buechner
Me
Knowledge
You
Peace
Joy
Sometimes
Compassion
Somebody
Feeling
Skin
Live
Too
Else
Finally
Inside
Never
Like
Until
Any
Capacity
Really
Fatal
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.
Fredric Jameson
Best
Capitalism
Reality
Exploitation
Destructive
Must
Various
Neutralize
Particular
Force
Globalization
Test
West
Motor
Mode
Behind
Transform
Forms
Capacity
Then
Resistance
The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
Fredric Jameson
National
Corporate
Worrying
Markets
Locations
More
Structures
Feature
Cheaper
New
Global
Operations
Overseas
Labour
Transferring
Capacity
The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.
Gad Saad
Come
Truly
Versus
Up
Capacity
Breathtaking
Humans
I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
Gail Sheehy
Courage
Women
Ambition
Intimate
Characteristics
Generally
Like
Female
Integrate
Male
Being
Commonly
Capacity
Found
Associated
I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Creativity
Think
Our
About
Small
Computer
Remarkable
Never
Occurs
Wonder
Personal
Same
Often
Dynamic
Which
Capabilities
Capacity
Ask
Use
Many
Things
Fraction
Women have a greater verbal capacity.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Women
Greater
Verbal
Capacity
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
George Gissing
Better
Stupidity
Slowly
Tend
Better Things
Individuals
Towards
Because
Nations
Moves
Capacity
Mankind
Things
The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
George Leonard
Creative
Purposes
Practical
Ultimate
Brain
Infinite
May
Capacity
If you get very fine, accurate, and inexpensive control over your genome, you can fundamentally change the kind of organism you are. You are extending human capacity.
George M. Church
You
Change
Control
Kind
Fine
Over
Genome
Inexpensive
Very
Accurate
Get
Human
Human Capacity
Capacity
Organism
Your
Extending
Fundamentally
Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.
George Papandreou
Management
Looking
Think
Framework
Markets
More
Underestimated
Issue
Debt
Stability
Stable
Capacity
Themselves
Create
Europe
Whole
Actually
Bonds
I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.
Gerald Walpin
President
President Obama
Statement
Say
States
Obama
Would
Never
Because
Continue
His
Capacity
Serve
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