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Again, research on these system's effectiveness is limited and focused more on warning tell-tales (low fuel, etc.) rather than shutting down social media input.
2010 Distracted Driving Summit: Social networking on the road 2010
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In that future, an Iran or North Korea will fear not only that its every move can be a cause for war, but that every idea expressed or even just imputed from undisclosed tell-tales may lead to its destruction.
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Again, research on these system's effectiveness is limited and focused more on warning tell-tales low fuel, etc. rather than shutting down social media input.
2010 Distracted Driving Summit: Social networking on the road 2010
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In that future, an Iran or North Korea will fear not only that its every move can be a cause for war, but that every idea expressed or even just imputed from undisclosed tell-tales may lead to its destruction.
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The first lesson our little masters and misses are taught, is to become blabs and tell-tales: they are bribed to divulge the petty intrigues of the family below stairs to papa and mamma in the parlour, and a doll or an hobby-horse is generally the encouragement of a propensity, which could scarcely be atoned for by a whipping.
Archive 2009-06-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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The software is basically looking for tell-tales like pipe shapes, cube like shapes, etc.
Get ready for the government to look at you with X-ray eyes. Ann Althouse 2009
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I've worn a lot of cheap RTW clothes in my life and one of the tell-tales of cheap clothing is poor pattern matching.
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I suspect he had buzzing tell-tales amongst the flies.
‘Mister B. Gone’ 2008
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A6-0045/2007 2nd March 2007 - ***I Report on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the identification of controls, tell-tales and indicators for two- or three-wheel motor vehicles codified version.
Archive 2007-04-01 Helen 2007
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I was very earnest to know, since my eyes had been such tell-tales, if their brother had any suspi-cion of my regard for him.
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