| Substantial transformation occurred in the anaerobic digester sludge and in freshwater aerobic and anaerobic sediment microcosms. |
| Temples were constructed as microcosms whose purity and wholeness symbolized the proper order of the larger world outside. |
| The earliest foreign settlements were microcosms of European metropolitan societies. |
| Her women are not feminist case studies but microcosms of the complex rules and regulations that govern such states. |
| The traditional linkage of human calendrical microcosms to universal historical macrocosms followed an argument in five stages. |
| The microcosms were fed methanol and dextrose to ensure the formation of anaerobic conditions, and to provide electron donors. |
