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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
Their ability to focus on faraway details in addition to other factors make them extremely effective hunters.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
In English, the keen vision of eagles and hawks describes a certain type of person.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
If you have an eagle eye you have the ability to see or notice distant objects.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
Also, you observe everything, even very small details which others might miss.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
On the same note, someone who is hawk-eyed watches and notices everything that happens. These types of people may even perceive things that are not clear to others.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
Both eagle-eyed and hawk-eyed people are observant or perceptive. A person does not have to have this ability all the time.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
They might use their keen vision and powers of observation only at certain times, especially times when they need to keep a close watch.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
For example, during Christmastime, hawk-eyed children might search the sky looking for Santa Claus.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
These children may not be very observant during the rest of the year, but during Christmastime, they are looking for gifts. Let’s hear these terms used between two friends.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
Thanks for inviting me. B: The more the merrier! This yearly neighborhood party always draws a huge number of people.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
There must be over a hundred people here! Hey, wait a minute.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
I think I see our old co-worker. Isn’t that Samantha way over there by the food and drinks?
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
My eagle eyes don’t miss a thing. I’m going to go say hi and grab the last hamburger while I’m there.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
Oh, and you should let the hosts know that they’re low on drinks.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
You’re right. I didn’t realize you were so hawk-eyed.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
A: Only at parties. I start off with a bird’s eye view and then focus in on the food, drinks, and people I want to see more closely.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
See you in a few… The term “eagle eye” has been used for hundreds of years. Word experts say it was first used in writing in the mid-1500s.
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
The Oxford English Dictionary website says the “earliest evidence for ‘eagle eye’ is from 1567, in the writing of Thomas Stapleton, a Roman Catholic theologian.”
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Don't Miss a Thing With 'Eagle Eyes'
A theologian is an expert in religious thought. And that’s all the time we have for this Words and Their Stories
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
Late last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race cannot be the reason for colleges to accept students.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
The high court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not permit such decisions based on race.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
The policy that many colleges used to increase the percentage of minorities they admitted was called affirmative action
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
They said the policy helped make their groups of students more diverse and improved the ability of minority groups to get higher education.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
Those opposed to affirmative action said the policy prevented some qualified students from getting into selective universities.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
Colleges in much of the U.S. were permitted to partly consider a student’s race in their admissions decisions for over 50 years.
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