All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
As a defender, how much ground I cover isn't up to me. I'm defending against a forward, so her movement determines my movement.
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
We cannot let it be said of modern Australia that the colour of your skin determines whether or not you end up in jail.
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
He's a big player, and the big players score the big goals and make the big contributions in the big games. That's what determines a great player. That's what Steven Gerrard is.
I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.
What one does in one's club is what determines whether one gets called up for the national team.
We promote new fossil fuel infrastructure, from airport expansion and coal mines in the U.K. to oil pipelines in the U.S. Investments are meant to build and secure our shared future - but all these fossil fuel investments are directly fuelling the climate crisis that threatens to undermine that future.
