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In a time like ours, when we are primarily concerned with the practical application of scientific discoveries, we are mostly accustomed to regard such flights of thought from a past age as nothing but the unessential accompaniment of youthful, immature science, and to smile at them accordingly as historical curiosities.

However, we had not updated our understanding of anthrax or other potential biological agents in years, primarily because of a lack of data.

For thousands of years, the threat of anthrax to humans was primarily limited to farmworkers, woolsorters, and, in rare cases, those who ate tainted meat.

The anthropological exodus is important primarily because here is where the positive, constructive face of the mutation begins to appear: an ontological mutation in action, the concrete invention of a first new place in the nonplace.

As I earlier pointed out, according to Berman our salvation must be primarily bodily, sensory, and somatic in nature, and thus what we really need, in this sensory-bound, pleasure-seeking, body-gratifying culture of ours is .

If, in its general, homophonic nature, your work belongs primarily to the romantic period, your conviction that the content conditions the form of every piece makes you the link between classic and modern musical art.

But if young people, before picking out their life partners, are thoroughly imbued with the idea that such qualities as energy, longevity, a sound constitution, public and private worth, are primarily due to heredity, and if they are taught to realize the fact that one marries not an individual but a family, the eugenist believes that better matings will be made, sometimes realized, sometimes insensibly.

I discovered that the exoskeleton was an organic-inorganic matrix composed of carbon compounds and silicate minerals, primarily olivine, pyroxene, and magnetite, substances commonly found in meteorites.

Dr Stuart is primarily a meteorologist he is not expected to proceed any further in this matter.

As far as the surface finds are concerned, these are all cranial and dental remains, the morphology of which is primarily apelike with some humanlike features.

But keep in mind the following: this sequencing operation is performed primarily on the basis of morphology, in order to preserve an evolutionary progression.

Primarily known as a writer of superior space opera like the Penton and Blake stories and THE MIGHTIEST MACHINE 1934 in the Stuart persona he changed to an emphasis on reflection and the responses of human beings to technology and the human condition.

After three days the side effects of some of the component minerals, primarily peridotite and olivine, cause violent mental aberrations and hallucinations.

Possum was composed primarily of crystals: plagioclase, pyroxene, ilmenite, olivine, and other minerals.

In this case, the plankton, having entered the shaft through a crack, suddenly found themselves in a primarily freshwater environment and bioluminesced in panic as the freshwater slowly killed them.