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  • Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations. -- Jessica Brown Findlay
  • Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
  • Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil. -- Basil Hume
  • A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation. -- Paul Nurse
  • In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool-wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis - man, the inventor of the city - we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages. -- Howard Bloom
  • In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one. -- Andrzej Wajda
  • I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns. -- Francis Collins
  • After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No. -- Wole Soyinka
  • The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator. -- Seth Shostak
  • I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. -- Nelson Mandela
  • Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation. -- Angela Carter
  • I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets... I underwent commando training. -- Michelle Rodriguez
  • As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique. -- Amrita Sher-Gil
  • A person who underwent hardships at some points in life couldn't turn a blind eye towards another person who is undergoing the same situation presently in life. -- Chandrababu V.S.
  • A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners. -- Kevin Myers
  • I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative. -- Stephen Roche
  • In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the powers not given to the government, were withheld from it. -- James Madison
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