Now, most people assume these crackdowns have to do with fraudulent returns or return scams, and they do to an extent.

These layoffs have to an extent hurt the luster of the tech industry, but not to the point that I think that people all of a sudden are going to decide not to go work for them anymore.

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Or perhaps our parental figure was constantly at the office or unavailable behind a locked study door. They might have had a violent, unpredictable temper or left us somehow feeling that we were just never good enough for them. As a result, to an extent we may not even have realised, we became experts at independence. We came to associate safety with a high degree of self-protective isolation. We might have become big readers or fascinated by the animal world or obsessed with music or computer games. Without quite knowing we had done so, we learnt never to trust a flesh-and-blood, three-dimensional human again. Our experiences may not have affected the strength of our longing for love, but they have heavily impacted our capacity to endure mutually satisfying relationships. We may now, as adults, tell ourselves that we want closeness and surrender. We will sob sincerely when we lose love, but we are continually taking steps to ensure we will never be at any sustained risk of finding it. The true terror for us is not that love should fail, but that it should, by some oversight on our part, succeed. For this would ask of us a level of defencelessness and exposure to another person and to a chance of happiness that has no precedent in our lives and poses immense, ego-shattering challenges to the armoured way our personalities have been structured.

To an extent, you pay for what you get with luggage.

Well, in a sense, Trump is currently reaping what he sowed to an extent.

While I do understand the complaint and even agreed with it to an extent when I first watched the film, I ultimately believe this mindset to be a misunderstanding of the core concepts that Grave of the Fireflies is trying to portray.

You know, Rocket League and even Call of Duty to an extent is easy to get into these days.

And to an extent, there's so much expectation from the hardcore fans that I'm not sure I could ever match up to it,

So caffeine can work to an extent if it's a one-off.