Problems included lack of aid, degraded water systems and unexploded bombs. |
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Therefore, one or more optical regenerators is spliced along the cable to boost the degraded light signals. |
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Certain fragments of the scrolls were so degraded that the ink was impossible to see with the naked eye. |
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Whenever we are perpetrators or victims of oppression, we feel diminished, degraded, dehumanized. |
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About one-fifth of the degraded local road pavements are rehabilitated by chemical stabilisation in Australia. |
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Competitive eating, like world federation wrestling, is a sport for our degraded times. |
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Journalism is becoming badly degraded, when we can hardly tell the difference between straight newsies and opinionists. |
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Under such conditions man is a degraded animal, and the noble savage as great a myth as the elixir of life. |
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Surrealism was seen as one of the most vilified and degraded forms of cultural and artistic expression. |
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Their message about humanity is even more degenerate and degraded than that spouted by the previous administration. |
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He also talks about the fact that the Agency's capabilities, in human intelligence and otherwise, were degraded over the years. |
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For these critics, public indifference was a mark of distinction, a sign of the artist's refusal to pander to the degraded tastes of the crowd. |
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Only in the extreme case of overheating will the wire be degraded or even destroyed by melting. |
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Radar made air defence practical, but was soon degraded by countermeasures. |
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From sea turtles to fringeless white orchids, native species are declining at alarming rates as their natural habitats are lost or degraded. |
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We have seen no evidence that this degraded fault-line scarp is Holocene active. |
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This turnover releases significant amounts of the iron-free portion of heme, porphyrin, which is subsequently degraded. |
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Wars should result in improved security for an affected nation's citizens, but often result in degraded or deteriorated social conditions. |
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In the Philippines, for instance, nearly a quarter of cropland is degraded. |
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They have succeeded in creating autonomous food communities in one of the most degraded regions of India. |
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Virtually all of the carbohydrate accumulated as starch and sucrose during the day was degraded at night. |
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Most such sanctuaries have either been encroached on or have been completely degraded. |
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I degraded myself for letting him catch me like that and than letting my voice crack. |
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But because steranes are commonly degraded by bacteria, they are of limited use. |
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They could be endocytosed from the cell surface and degraded via the proteasome mechanism or some other pathway. |
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However, if not properly managed, the supply would be depleted, or at least the quality degraded. |
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In apoptosis, DNA is degraded into oligonucleotides with a few hundreds of basepairs that subsequently diffuse out of the nucleus. |
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The tower appears to be structurally sound but internally the condition of the wall tops, window heads and windowsills are greatly degraded. |
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The one-day strike was to protest the wave of budget cutbacks that have degraded medical care. |
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Khan says at least 40 percent of Kashmir's forests have been degraded during the conflict. |
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Given the present degraded state of the film industry, its subject matter, this is nearly a provocation. |
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How much does the experience of transcendence alter the modern world of degraded or cheapened thought and feeling? |
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We have tried to reinfuse words like freedom and rights with the power they once had, but they have become too degraded by overuse. |
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They don't give us a discount to compensate for the degraded shopping experience. |
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New Walk has been further degraded by the removal of wide channels of soil between the tow path and the walk. |
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Oil-importing countries are considering the production of biodiesel from physic nut or jatropha grown on degraded land. |
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These degraded accuracies persisted for hours and were well beyond system tolerances specified for marine DGPS users. |
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The exposed dark wood of the coffins had degraded but they were basically undamaged. |
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Too much of the potential triggering energy of the degraded gammas is dissipated in Compton and photoelectric interactions. |
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By the first week in June, French rail and road communications had been seriously degraded. |
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Each time the soil is ploughed or cultivated and exposed to more oxygen and high temperatures the existing organic material is degraded. |
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Of course, Chesnutt exposes the fictiveness of a degraded black essentialism in Dr. Miller's upward mobility. |
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They essentially consist in transferring power from nature to man, leaving nature degraded and depleted in the process. |
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A strange contradiction emerged as the art was praised while those who created it were degraded. |
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They drink two liters of water daily, minimize fried foods and avoid junk foods, white rice, white flour, processed sugar and degraded oils. |
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And if we make it so tough that quality of life is degraded, we're not going to see those recruitments meeting the goal. |
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And in some situations reclaimed land is already degraded and faces long-standing feral animal or weed infestation problems and future risks. |
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The vegetative cover of this area may have been degraded in very early times and now the soil is impoverished by overfarming. |
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On the two occasions I have heard him perform, what I heard was degraded, simple-minded, noisy, tuneless pop wailing. |
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Interspersed among the spermatozoa are what appear to be the cytoplasmic contents of degraded cells. |
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Some local residents advocate pre-emptive privatization of degraded communal lands to protect these areas from municipal encroachment. |
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The squandering of funds and reported misuse of the resources have already degraded the personality of the hero that the movie wants to depict. |
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He was in disgrace in 1552 and degraded from the Garter, but restored to favour by Mary, whom he served as lord privy seal. |
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Prisoners, he conceded, often felt worse for the experience, feeling degraded and punished. |
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The project will reforest old crop fields and pastures and an abandoned rock quarry that has degraded over the years. |
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This would mean that the decaying matter was buried before it could be completely degraded to carbon dioxide and water. |
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Three other profiles, measured across the portion of the scarp degraded by a landslide, also share distinctive features. |
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Use of these drugs is routinely equated with socially degraded status and participation in activities indicative of the code of the streets. |
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To a Latin American, it might mean coaxing life from marginal soil that becomes more degraded with every planting. |
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Its ecological values are being degraded, due to the rapid invasion by grey and crack willows. |
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In fact, the only activity allowed will be the ethical collection of seeds to help strategically revegetate nearby degraded areas. |
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In his case, several of the actor's accusers claim to have been humiliated and degraded by him at work. |
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Not only did he believe in managing wilderness, he believed in rewilding degraded wilderness. |
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Us librarians must rise together to prevent our place in society from being demeaned, diminished and degraded! |
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Because PVC is degraded by light, it requires a minimum of 12 inches of clean soil cover placed over the liner to function as designed. |
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Bro also gets degraded by other schoolchildren, something pop captures on film as it helps boost his ratings. |
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The tanker then confessed to a degraded hydraulic system, which accounted for the malfunction of the take-up reel. |
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By now the path has degraded into the faintest of trails, partly hidden by leaves, obscured sometimes entirely by masses of tangled roots. |
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The fashion for equating chimps with children is based on a degraded view of humanity and an ignorance about animals. |
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By the twentieth century the dry forests were severely depleted and degraded. |
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Some materials are better degraded under anaerobic conditions than under aerobic conditions. |
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They were unaware that a degraded environment leads to a scramble for scarce resources and may culminate in poverty and even war. |
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They believed themselves descended from demigods whose divinity had degraded through centuries of interbreeding with lesser races. |
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Eight granite columns with marble Corinthian capitals encircle the baptismal basin, now much degraded. |
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Able to survive extremely degraded water quality, they can live in areas where other fish have been pushed out by pollution. |
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The most sexually intolerant countries seem to be those in which women are degraded most. |
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Similar water diversion plans by upstream non-Indian users severely degraded Walker River Reservation resources as well. |
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This is a lengthy and very harrowing account of an abused and degraded girl, whose story is at once pathetic and tragic. |
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Dr. Sreenath explained that in normal dentin, decorin and biglycan are probably degraded and then mineralization proceeds. |
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The result would be a degraded air transportation system that would put a huge dent in economic prosperity. |
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Religion has oppressed women, and degraded women for ages and ages, since the beginning of times. |
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An unspeakably peaked-looking shoeless fellow wrapped with bandages in a degraded state, approached me. |
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The purse-lipped PhD People in charge think tv, movies and pop music are degraded and evil. |
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It also, more disturbingly, shows us up as a people who are appallingly irresponsible, callous and who have devalued and degraded human life. |
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It is necessary to design the antenna properly or system performance will be degraded. |
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Additionally, 4 acres degraded by an invasive stand of black locust were restored to native grasslands. |
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As human society becomes degraded by the influence of the age of Kali, people become unfit for the vedic system. |
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Like other electronic components, solar cells are degraded by radiation during a long space mission. |
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They decided to build what they called a Multifunction Polis on degraded land, some of which was within Salisbury's Council area. |
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The rough uneven surface of slate can seem quite riven, chipped and degraded. |
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Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded into the class of things. |
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The actress could have been degraded by the exploitation material, but somehow she punches through the stereotypes and retains her dignity and poise. |
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And our soldiers are degraded and insulted on their own soil. |
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The good news is that there is a similar lag when quality is degraded. |
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Decades of harmful land use practices have degraded water quality in much of the species' historic habitat, leaving only a few remnant populations. |
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And the more you did, the less attention you could give to each, so the quality went down, so the nett result was very, very degraded quality in education. |
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He was degraded from the grandeeship and exiled to the Philippines. |
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The wild type molecule at the cell surface cycles from the membrane to sacs within the cell interior called endocytic vesicles where it may be degraded. |
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They feel humiliated and degraded, says an irked senior commander. |
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To feel humiliated and degraded is not what you signed up for. |
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The pool will continue to function, possibly in a degraded state. |
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A high end audio system from 50 years ago sounds better than your degraded, compressed product. |
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Fresh life is to be breathed into degraded peat moors in the Peak District over the next few weeks by a massive airlift of hundreds of tonnes of heather. |
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The nature of the mobile-enabled swarmcast means it appear to be degraded, but it has really only reconfigured. |
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He degraded her and he really put her through the wringer, but she survived that and stayed with him anyway. |
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When people and goods can't move because of a degraded transportation infrastructure, business comes to a screeching halt. |
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The result was excellent regeneration of tissue inside the spheres, which were then degraded and disappeared, and there were no signs of rejection. |
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Engineers preparing to replace the cables and computers discovered that the cables had degraded so much over the past 50 years that the work needed to be done all at once. |
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It is not affected by diet, reutilized, nor degraded further. |
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Blackened and degraded by centuries of dust and dirt, they emerged in a remarkable state of preservation that gives an excellent idea of their intended flamboyance. |
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Again like all proteins in the body, collagen has a finite life span after which it is degraded to the constituent amino acids and replaced by new fibres. |
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Thus previously authoritarian government officials joined with previously suspicious villagers to successfully regenerate the degraded sal forests of southwestern Bengal. |
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If the temperature is too high, the polymer can be degraded. |
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A victim of racism and classism, the asthmatic loner finds himself being degraded in every way imaginable, including a delousing that will make your scalp recoil. |
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We would be forwarding to listeners an already degraded signal. |
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However, accuracy of the position estimate by triangulation may be degraded depending on array geometry and rover location, the well known dilution of precision. |
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At one time it was unchurched altogether, then restored to a certain status, and again Cromwell degraded the venerable pile to the level of a stable. |
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Otherwise, our higher education system will become steadily more degraded. |
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Heat death will occur when all the energy of the cosmos has been degraded to random heat energy, with random motions of molecules and uniform low-level temperatures. |
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Sacred bovids, beginning with the fecund cow and advancing to the virile bull, were finally degraded to mere substance in the hands of humanized deities. |
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If enough plant cells die, the sugar beet's leaves will exhibit the disease's characteristic spots, which are actually colonies of fungi feeding on degraded plant material. |
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It is believed that the gels have not chemically degraded, but that the water eventually finds another fracture or vugular system to travel through. |
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This species' use of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as well as major migration staging areas, makes it vulnerable if these areas are lost or degraded. |
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While stabilized and vegetated, the dune fields are often degraded, since in some cases it has been many thousands of years since they were last active. |
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Even those single molecules must be further degraded by sunlight or slow oxidative breakdown before their constituents can be recycled into the building blocks of life. |
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They showed that quinotoxine could be degraded to a compound called homomeroquinene, and then they demonstrated the reverse synthesis of homomeroquinene to quinotoxine. |
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Indeed, in the absence of amylase starch is not degraded, and anoxia-intolerant cereals such as wheat and barley suffer soon from sugar starvation, and eventually die. |
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In Washington, they favor degraded or otherwise gravelly soils. |
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All simple direct conversion receiver designs suffer from degraded selectivity performance and are more subject to overload by contrasted to even modest superhet designs. |
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As ripening progresses, fruit colour changes from green to red as chloroplasts are transformed into chromoplasts, chlorophyll is degraded and carotenoids accumulate. |
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Although the epicuticle may be degraded during the life of the host, that is an intrinsic factor leading to epibiont patchiness, not a result of taphonomy. |
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Some coastal waters are degraded by oil production and sewage discharges. |
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It degraded the whole of colonial society, both felonry and free. |
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A freeze-dried, enzymatically degraded fruiting body extract is the best form, in my opinion. |
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Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. |
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Archive film materials are particularly degraded by blotch, scratch, flicker and noise. |
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The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. |
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In other areas where the soil has not been degraded, it has resulted in lush vegetation. |
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The lipooligosaccharide was degraded both by mild hydrazinolysis and by acetic acid hydrolysis. |
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These are classified as chalk streams, although the Lea is degraded by water from road drains and sewage treatment works. |
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The vast majority of fires are linked to the use of wood burners and faulty chimneys with degraded or poorly inserted or maintained flues. |
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These three elements work together in creating the disruptive and degraded people. |
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Like most of the uplands across Wales, intensive land use activities have resulted in many habitats being either lost or degraded. |
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However, many fisheries have either collapsed or degraded to a point where increased catches are no longer possible. |
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Large scale maerl extraction over the past 40 years has removed and degraded maerl beds. |
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The toxins are degraded by drying, so hay containing dried buttercups is safe. |
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In fact, different levels of immune responses and diseases have been triggered by the degraded products of silk fibroin. |
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Pomaceous and stone fruits can be degraded by a number of pathogenic species including Monilia laxa, M. fructigena and Rhizopus stolonifer. |
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Under the pornocracy in the first half of the 10th century, the Papacy was degraded and all Italy torn by factions. |
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By the 1990s economic activity was declining and economic infrastructure had become seriously degraded. |
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Many upland watersheds are being deforested and degraded, and fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce. |
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Although abundant and fully functioning on the peninsula, tropical savannahs are now rare and highly degraded in other parts of the world. |
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Once degraded, he lost all his rights, and if he committed another crime, he might then be punished with death like any other felon. |
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Whether it is degraded and newly synthesized or dispersed throughout the cytoplasm and subsequently reaggregated at the spindle is not known. |
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Thus rather than let a common become degraded, access was restricted even further. |
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This type of structure is provided by gases that are released when a third material, the spumific, is pyrolytically degraded. |
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Amino acids degraded to acetyl CoA or acetoacetyl CoA are termed ketogenic amino acids since they can give rise to ketone bodies or fatty acids. |
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However reproductively degraded, the old masterpieces more than hold their own against Romberg's cool, analytic deconstruction of them. |
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It's a place where minorities are degraded and maligned for fun. |
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When the tissue degraded in the ocean, the nondegradable scrim produced an unexpected problem. |
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The fibers appear degraded with absence of a covering matrix layer on them, and the microfibrils can be observed. |
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Forest experts have claimed that massive afforestation in the degraded areas comprises monoculture plantations. |
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The bubbles expand and condense into a liquid that solvates and softens degraded resins and remnants of the previous color or material. |
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Stereomicroscopic and histologic changes in the colon of guinea pigs fed degraded carrageenan. |
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Abolitionists argued that the slave system degraded nonslaveholding whites by impairing their ability to find work at livable wages. |
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In this method, the pollutants are degraded under ultraviolet light in the presence of a semi-conductive heterogenic catalyst. |
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Elongation to break was measured to determine decreases that would indicate embrittled surfaces or degraded mechanical properties. |
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Perclot granules are enzymatically degraded by alpha-amylase and glucoamylase and by macrophages. |
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This protein, which helps regulate the activity of certain genes in a cell's DNA, normally is degraded by ' the proteasomes. |
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Data from 4 additional polymerases could not be analyzed because the template was degraded by 3' to 5' exonuclease activity before acquisition. |
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This indicates that the tables didn't fall apart until Midas-fueled fungus had completely degraded the floor beneath them, says Filley. |
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Fanon understands that racism profoundly alters this relationship for both racially degraded and racially privileged subjects. |
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More specifically, they found, the process of stem cell differentiation stalled at the stage where mitochondria were degraded in erythroblasts, the precursors of erythrocytes. |
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In addition to glomerular filtration, BNP is eliminated from plasma mainly through natriuretic peptide receptors and degraded by neutral endopeptidases. |
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In the March 11 NATURE, they describe shrimp with chalky-white eyes, indicating degraded photopigments, at two fields of hydrothermal vents on the Atlantic seabed. |
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The components in the waste effluents can also be degraded if they are exposed to natural sunlight, either by direct photodegradation or indirect photodegradation. |
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Without water, the stearic acid monoglyceride formed degraded products such as stearoyloxyethylene carbonate, stearic acid diglyceride, and stearic acid triglyceride. |
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Many felt these occupations degraded and degendered black women. |
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Excluding this project activities will also help to make the land cultivatable which has degraded and environment of surroundings of these villages will also be made friendly. |
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Ultimately, bomber survivability could be achieved only if the warning and information radar provided to enemy counterair capability could be sufficiently degraded or negated. |
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The present study was undertaken to determine the woody overstory and understory species composition and structure of a degraded sand savanna at Sand Ridge State. |
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Furthermore, the brains of alcohol-fed animals had higher levels of the degradation products of a cytoskeletal protein called spectrin, which is degraded by calpains. |
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These compounds are easily degraded by microorganisms or absorbed by clay, so that regular doses are needed to maintain low activity of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. |
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However, Fassouri Marsh has seen its ecological value been degraded over the last few decades and needs the site to be managed in order to preserve it, BirdLife said. |
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A further explanation for the extremely positive effect of blueberries may be that the blueberry fibers are not degraded to such a high degree in the large intestine. |
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It identified 24 categories of such services, finding that 15 are being degraded or used unsustainably, 4 have been enhanced, and the remaining 5 are unevaluatable. |
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The rotation was changed by the Church Temporalities Act of 1833, which merged many dioceses and degraded the archbishoprics of Tuam and Cashel to bishoprics. |
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As the territory of the Russian State expanded the position was somewhat degraded for the territories that drifted away from the international borders. |
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These may be suitable to smaller, more intensively cultivated plots, and to farming on poor, shallow or degraded soils that ploughing would further degrade. |
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With Donglegate she pointlessly robbed that man of his employment. She degraded his masculinity. And so the community responded by degrading her femininity. |
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It leaches out of sediraents, washes in from rivers or is airborne in the form of volatile dimethylmercury, which is degraded to MMHg by ultraviolet light. |
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The dividing-line between auratic and non-auratic art by no means coincides with that between authentic art and the administered, degraded art of the culture industry. |
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