but intransitivelaypersists in familiar speech and is a bit more common in general prose than one might suspect. Much of the problem lies in the confusing similarity of the principal parts of the two words. Another influence may be a folk belief thatlieis for people andlayis for things. So...
At the time, Burch defended geofencing as needed to “reach our fellow Catholics in the pews” and “ensure that our fellow Catholic voters get the facts and hear the truth — not the latest lies peddled by the media.” Dec 2024
One can argue there are many places in the world where it is a near statistical certainty that the laptop will be stolen, so in one sense, a risk management sense, it may be Bob’s fault that the machine was stolen, but in a moral sense, the fault lies with the guy who stole it...
It might seem like there is some repetition in these principles, but the difference lies in the way they will be upheld. Take rights to privacy and data protection, for instance: For governments to respect and protect these means setting out regulations and monitoring for abuse, as well as e...
Establishing settlements beyond Earth would serve as an insurance policy, but it would also mark a giant leap in what Hawking regards as a 21st-century brand of manifest destiny. During the Starmus talk, he said the cosmos is “where I believe our ultimate destiny lies.” ...
Set beyond good and evil -- literally in Los Angeles and the barren wastescapes of the Mojave desert, and figuratively in the landscapes of a broken spirit -- Play It As It Lays is an immaculately wrought vision of Californian culture on the cusp of the 1970s。 Three decades after its ...