Examples of sit-in in the following topics:
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- During the sit-in movement of the 1960s, students and other civil rights activists would "sit-in" at whites-only locations.
- In the first sit-ins, students would sit at white-only lunch counters and refuse to leave until they had been served.
- As early as one week after the Greensboro sit-in had begun, students in other North Carolina towns launched their own sit-ins.
- The first large-scale organized sit-in in Nashville was on Saturday, February 13.
- Interviews with some of the sit-in participants and the effect of the sit-ins
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- To find the average GPA of all students in a university, use all honor students at the university as the sample.
- To find the average annual income of all adults in the United States, sample U.S. congressmen.
- Then survey every U.S. congressman in the cluster.
- Conduct the survey by sitting in Central Park on a bench and interviewing every person who sits next to you.
- To determine the average cost of a two day stay in a hospital in Massachusetts, survey 100 hospitals across the state using simple random sampling.
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- Forms of protest or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama; "sit-ins" such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama or the march on Washington as well as a wide range of other nonviolent activities .
- The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
- While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement.
- These sit-ins led to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history.
- Scenes from Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C. in August 1963.
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- In mammals, the adrenal glands (also known as suprarenal glands) are endocrine glands that sit atop the kidneys.
- In mammals, the adrenal glands (also known as suprarenal glands) are endocrine glands that sit atop the kidneys.
- In humans, the adrenal glands are found at the level of the 12th thoracic vertebra sitting above and slightly medial to the kidneys, lying within the renal fascia and separated from the kidneys by a thin layer of connective tissue.
- In humans, the right adrenal gland is triangular shaped, while the left adrenal gland is semilunar shaped.
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- As American expansion continued, Native Americans resisted settlers' encroachment in several regions of the new nation (and in unorganized territories), from the Northwest to the Southeast, and then in the West, as settlers encountered the tribes of the Great Plains.
- In the latter stages, Tecumseh's group allied with the British forces in the War of 1812 and was instrumental in the conquest of Detroit.
- Conflicts in the Southeast included the Creek War and Seminole Wars, both before and after the Indian Removals of most members of the Five Civilized Tribes, beginning in the 1830s under President Andrew Jackson.
- Defeats included the Sioux Uprising of 1862, the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), and Wounded Knee in 1890.
- In 2006, the U.S.
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- In these cases, the district courts have jurisdiction to hear appeals from such lower bodies.
- In the latter case, many defendants appeal to the Supreme Court.
- In addition, the Constitution specifies that the Supreme Court may exercise original jurisdiction in cases affecting ambassadors and other diplomats, in cases in which a state is a party, and cases between the state and another country.
- In all other cases, however, the Court has only appellate jurisdiction.
- Such cases are generally referred to a designated individual, usually a sitting or retired judge, or a well-respected attorney, to sit as a special master and report to the Court with recommendations.
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- Remain sitting at your table and listen.
- To a casual observer, Masashi would seem to be "just sitting there."
- Masashi held a black belt in karate and once rose to become Japanese national champion in that sport.
- That lesson is that taking time to "just sit" provided we open our minds and concentrate our senses while we're sitting—may save us from boring our family members, offending our business associates, misguiding impressionable young people, or otherwise hurting ourselves or others.
- In the long run, taking the time in business to clear our minds for thoughtful action may pay off in the form of positive results.
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- The urinary bladder is a hollow, muscular, and distendible or elastic organ that sits on the pelvic floor.
- The bladder is a hollow, muscular, and elastic organ that sits on the pelvic floor.
- The ureters enter the bladder diagonally from its dorsolateral floor in
an area called the trigone, which is a triangular shaped anatomical region.
- The bladder has a minor temperature regulation function in that some heat may leave the body in the form of urine.
- As urine accumulates, the walls of the bladder thin as it stretches, allowing the bladder to store larger amounts of urine without a significant rise in internal pressure of the bladder.
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- The informal economy is thus not included in a government's Gross National Product or GNP.
- Although the informal economy is often associated with developing countries, all economic systems contain an informal economy in some proportion.
- Examples of informal economic activity include: the sale and distribution of illegal drugs and unreported payments for house cleaning or baby sitting.
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- Moreover, businesses and industries that fail to comprehend the issue of finite resources and increases in resource prices should elicit no sympathy when they claim they ‘didn't see it coming'.
- Instead, what usually happens is that management chose to ignore the warning signs – and now it can no longer afford to sit passively on the sidelines and do nothing.