Some conjecture that the role of play in the animal kingdom is to hone skills and develop capabilities.

And these stem cells then float in the bloodstream and hone in to damaged organs to release growth factors to repair the damaged tissue.

NEW YORK Barack Obama s election was historic on many levels. Between now and his inauguration on January 20, he will need to hone his policies.

Or Jenny, who is a single mother of two and wants to hone her skills so that she can go back and complete her master's degree.

Winston Churchill often attributed his success to his mastery of the English sentence. The ancient Greeks had schools of rhetoric to hone their skills for the assembly.

Although universities develop and hone the skills of these professionals, primary and secondary education ignite the interest of, and lay the foundation for, pupils to pursue these professions.

Further efforts must be made to hone this function and re create the required capacity, as both the need for policy analysis and the acknowledgement that UNHCR currently lacks this capacity are widely recognized both inside and outside the organization.

We want to act sooner, more decisively, and in a more substantial manner not just when crises become acute, but also by focusing on conflict prevention and post conflict management. This requires that we hone our tools and develop new ones, ranging from early warning mechanisms to enhanced means of international cooperation.

To enforce the statute, regulators periodically examine banks for CRA compliance. To hone in on the regulatory enforcement effect, the recent study compares the behavior of banks that are undergoing examination (which takes place over several quarters) to that of banks that are not undergoing examination in a particular tract in a particular month.

And one of the things that you see is that male line, the mortality is going down, down, down, down, down.

Twenty percent of the foreign fighters were from Libya, 50 percent of those from a single town in Libya, hugely important since prior statistics put that figure at three percent. It also helped to hone in on a figure of rising importance in al Qaeda, Abu Yahya al Libi, a senior cleric in the Libyan Islamic fighting group.

Man down! Man down!

Gradually, bringing it down, bringing it down.

Unemployment up. Housing values down. Equity markets down.

Soldiers Sergeant Smith is down! Sergeant Smith is down?

The next thing is that if you want to predict the effect of one species on another, if you focus only on that link, and then you black box the rest, it's actually less predictable than if you step back, consider the entire system all the species, all the links and from that place, hone in on the sphere of influence that matters most.

For now, increased engagement in multilateral institutions seems likely to change China more than it changes the institutions, even as China s voting power increases to reflect better its growing contributions. A closer look at the experiences of long standing institutions including working with civil society groups and promoting local ownership of policies will help China hone its strategy for engagement in Africa and elsewhere.

Evelyn He ordered us to sit down, so we sat down.

We go back down. It's going to go up and down.

And down here, and they winter down here in southern Africa .

That We pour down the water, pouring (it) down in abundance,

That We pour down the water, pouring (it) down in abundance,

He reached down. He pulled a lever. And the chair sank down.

See, Uganda coming down, Zimbabwe coming down, Russia went to one percent.

Surely We have sent down the Koran on thee, a sending down

Surely We have sent down the Koran on thee, a sending down

When it is said unto them Bow down, they bow not down!

When it is said unto them Bow down, they bow not down!

When they are bidden to bow down, they do not bow down.

When they are bidden to bow down, they do not bow down.

Get down!

Quiet down.

Quieten down!

Stay down!

Slow down.

Bow down!

You can see muscles pulling down at flesh to bring her eyebrows down.

And as you go down, the washing machine at the surface calms down.

Do you send it down from the clouds, or We send it down?

Do you send it down from the clouds, or We send it down?

Send it down ye from the raincloud, or are We the Sender down?

And when it is said Unto them 'bow down, they bow not down.

Send it down ye from the raincloud, or are We the Sender down?

And when it is said Unto them 'bow down, they bow not down.

and turned the land upside down, and rained down stones of baked clay.