Word: succumbing
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There is a measure of validity on both sides of the argument. The reality lies somewhere in-between the environmentalist model, (humanity will succumb to natural restraints), and the economic model (human nature can circumvent such natural restraints). We may be able to bend the laws of nature a bit, but it would be both arrogant and foolish to believe that we can continue to overburden the earth indefinitely...
Preposterous, you say. It would never work. But part of the weird genius of Bowfinger is that its central conceit never falls into total implausibility. At some point in the picture, you begin to see that this mad scheme is working. Or maybe it's just that you succumb to the enthusiasm with which Bobby and his associates perpetrate their...
...their martyrdom imposes on the living, I will allow myself a prophecy. Or maybe it is a warning. More than 3 billion human beings on this planet right now live on less than $2 a day. And every day that breaks, 40,000 children--more than one every second!--succumb to diseases linked to chronic hunger. They are there, always there, the terrifying conditions of injustice and inequality that led Che many decades ago to start his journey toward that bullet and that photo awaiting him in Bolivia...
...decide for ourselves, the frightening control over our destiny and its consequences, that frames both the beauty of a Harvard education and its frustration. We are forever indebted to this institution for fine-tuning our ability to analyze critically and to examine, and yet, it is difficult not to succumb to occasional bouts of heightened consciousness and self-doubt as we analyze and over-analyze our every action. As a smart man named Charles Dickens once wrote, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
...objection is that Pennsylvania's idea will disproportionately affect the poor. The rich, it is argued, will not be moved by a $300 reward; it will be the poor who will succumb to the incentive and provide organs...