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Greenhouse gases emitted into atmosphere are virtually permanent, and because they (i)_________ in the atmosphere, their effects is (ii)_______. These facts necessitate that policies related to greenhouse gases differ from policies related to various pollutants whose effects are (iii)______ and often temporary.
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If aging is merely an avoidable by-product of life rather than a necessary progression, it is possible that we might eventually forestall ________.
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The idea that Jim was ______, that he loved fighting for the sake of fighting, was a mistake, in reality he was a kind and gentle person.
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Experiments have shown that it is shockingly easy to elicit a sense of ________ among a group of strangers:just tell them they`ll be working together as a team.
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Ursula Le Guin claims that looking at schoolbooks from around 1900 can be________, given that the level of literacy and general cultural knowledge expected of a mere ten-year-old was, she notes, "rather awesome".
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If the African farmers face a soil fertility problem, providing funding for fertilizer seems________; closer examination of data raises some troubling questions, however.
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For the early years of the twentieth century, ecology remained essentially a ______ science: ecologists went into the field, counted plants and animals, made lists, and that was pretty much that.
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In years prior to the Civil War, Philadelphia`s African American press encouraged readers to be vaccinated against the smallpox. This journalistic campaign was initially (i)________, appealing to readers` sense of communal duty, and became even more (ii)________ once the war started, as smallpox outbreaks began to occur on Philadelphia`s city skirts.
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While Kwame Gyekye (i)________ that the distinction made in Akan thought between the nonsensible world(unperceivable) and the sensible world(the perceivable) (ii)________, he acknowledges that nonsensible causation is seen as a deeper kind of explanation by the Akan.
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Lohr`s (i)_______ the trappings of literary celebrity creates a Romantic aura for him: by distancing himself from all public discourse about himself or his work, Lohr becomes an even greater, albeit more (ii)________, celebrity than most authors manage in all their interviews and memoirs.
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Both inquiries were pushed forward by obsessive, heavy-handed investigators with political agendas; both dragged on interminably, with investigators ultimately chasing after details (i) ____________ the original alleged offenses. And just as the first inquiry long ago grew too (ii)____________ for most citizens to grasp, in the same way the second inquiry hinged on immunological experiments so (iii)____________-and produced so many conflicting interpretations of the allegedly fabricated experimental records-that impartial observers rarely knew what to believe.
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The historian argued that________ are essential to science, claiming that these inherited and untested beliefs often form the conceptual framework necessary for further research.
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Conchita evinced________ the arts: her favorite activities included visiting museums, attending plays or concerts, and reading poetry aloud.
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Computerized facial-recognition systems can be ________ by any number of factors, from the dirt caked on a camera lens to a hat pulled low over a subject`s face.
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Since their first appearance in the nineteenth century, commuter suburbs have been widely________ in print as both a social disaster and an aesthetic desert.
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The researchers theorized that people in power focus so keenly on their own prerogatives that they become oblivious to those around them and that their subordinates, not wanting to provoke the boss, ______this process.
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With Robert Lowell`s death, poetry appears to have shrunk from the ground he commandeered: his grand conception of the poet as public conscience has ______ in the present era of notably small and private poems.
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Ifeanyi Menkiti claims that changes in a person`s qualities over time are ontologically (i)________. That is, he argues that a person in her youth and that same person in her old age are fundamentally different people (i.e., they are ontologically distinct). This difference is not merely one of characteristics but one of (ii)________.
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The irony of digital networking is that it can produce more (i)__________ than did the geographical confinement it supposedly transcended. As human interactions become (ii)__________ physical location, people are less likely to have regular dealings with others who do not share the same values and outlooks.
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The (i)__________ of community ecology and population ecology is (ii)__________ insofar as the two subdisciplines partly address issues at different hierarchical levels and different spatial and temporal scales. But it is harmful insofar as it (iii)__________ the fields` mutual enrichment.
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