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Human control of fire goes back far enough (over a million years) that evolution could have produced a genetic leaning towards fire as a central aspect of human life.

His firm was leading America towards "a new economic order", the magazine wrote.

Gear its research towards practical applications.

Participation in this project helped the girls developed a new attitude towards their parents of their own homes; they've learned how to work with tools, and improve their work habits.

It brought cars closer towards the reach of ordinary people.

It's a great way for me to relieve stress and pressure, and dance my way towards feeling energetic and happy again.

You need to recognize each step of progress you take towards achieving your goals.

Their behaviors do not tend towards mental problems.

But an array of countries are rushing to assert greater influence here, with an eye not just towards the day those protective treaties expire, but also for the strategic and commercial opportunities that already exist.

As a global society, therefore, tackling food waste will help contribute towards addressing a number of key resource issues.

In the modem industrialised agricultural process—which developing nations are moving towards in order to increase future yields—energy usage in the making and application of fertilisers and pesticides represents the single biggest component

A study by Mannaz, a leadership development company, suggests that, while the bully-boy chief executive of old may not have been eradicated completely, there is a definite shift in emphasis towards less tough styles of management – at least in America and Europe.

It is shifting towards more collaborative models

Obama's success isn't all good news for black Americans As Erin White watched the election results head towards victory for Barack Obama, she felt a burden lifting from her shoulders

whites' attitude towards blacks has dramatically changed

But towards late afternoon, rain will spread from Scotland to cover most parts by midnight.

An attitude is a settled way of thinking, feeling and/or behaving towards particular objects, people, events or ideologies.

And it goes some way towards explaining why books about swimming, in which people tackle icy lakes, and overcome oceans while reflecting on their lives have recently become so popular.

Andy Holder—the chief economist at The Bank of England—suggested that the UK move towards a government-backed digital currency.

If you take a look at his biography, you can get a good idea of how his life experiences manifest themselves in his theories of beauty, specifically, the way he looked towards nature as the origin of what we find beautiful.

Many people assume that our attitudes are internally consistent, that is, the way you think and feel about someone or something predicts your behavior towards them.

Mathematicians, by contrast, tend historically towards solitude.

Our research team has been looking at cultural differences in self-enhancing motivations, helping people have positive feelings towards not only themselves, but things connected to themselves.

since the former is most common among those inclined towards indifferent relationships, their predominance can bolster individuals' sense of self-worth.

Smartphone-based data collection comes at an appropriate time in the evolution of psychological science Today, the field is in transition, moving away from a focus on laboratory studies with undergraduate participants towards more complex, real-world situ

As a first-year, I was afraid to make any noise towards campus issues that I noticed.

British attitudes towards accent have a long tradition.

During my first quarter, I spoke directly to the chancellor, asking him for support towards my initiatives, met with the vice chancellors.

First, decide to do it for yourself and work towards staying positive.

He couldn't walk, but he managed to get out of the crevasse and started to move towards their camp, nearly ten kilometers away.

Joe's weight was pulling simon slowly towards the precipice.

Students should have a proper attitude towards college before thinking about which college to attend, and it's never too early to make necessary preparations for a healthy and meaningful college experience.

Surrounding yourself with people who'll provide you with respect support can be very beneficial while working towards reaching health and fitness goals.

The Stroudwater Canal is moving towards reopening.

This empowerment has been part of the trend towards downsizing: reducing the number of management layers in companies.

This suggests that British attitudes towards accent have deep roots and are based on class prejudice.

What's Steven's attitude towards people downloading his music?

Towards the end of Overdressed, Cline introduced her ideal, a Brooklyn woman named Sarah Kate Beaumont, who since 2008 has made all of her own clothes – and beautifully.

Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretation but at the same time obscure or even close off others.

Derek Jarman's yellow-tinted film Towards Avebury, a collection of long, mostly still shots of the wiltshire landscape, evokes a tradition of English landscape painting stretching from Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash.

Generally however British land artists preferred to get away from towns, gravitating towards landscapes that are traditionally considered beautiful such as the Lake District or the Wiltshire Downs.

In Britain the move towards open access publishing has been driven by funding bodies.

In effect, fewer federal funds today are going towards the agency's other work—such as forest conservation, watershed and cultural resources management, and infrastructure upkeep—that affect the lives of all Americans.

It surely seems plausible that happy people would be more forward-thinking and creative and lean towards R&D more than the average.

It's not hard to imagine that local culture and sentiment would help shape how executives think about the future. "It surely seems plausible that happy people would be more forward-thinking and creative and lean towards R&D more than the average," said on

Towards the end of Overdressed, Cline introduced her ideal, a Brooklyn woman named Sarah Kate Beaumont, who since 2008 has made all of her own clothes-and beautifully.