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It can be extremely difficult to uncover direct evidence of conspiracies, given that such activities are by their very nature ________.
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In clinical research into new treatments or the causal factors of diseases, randomized, double-blind controlled clinical trials are seen as (i)________ but, given their (ii)________ often are not feasible.
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Seigel has written an important and invaluable book on the history of Western ideas of the self, showing a genuine (i)________ in analyzing philosophical views of often daunting intricacy. Though a historian by profession, he keeps to a minimum his excursions into the (ii)________ of ideas, recognizing that great minds often (iii)________ the preconceptions of their age.
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She was a star adored by directors for her ________ : there was no volatile temperament; there were no tantrums.
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The poem is not nearly as (i)________ as it has often been said to be. Granted, it would be (ii)________ to claim that the poem is self-contained or that its proliferating allusions are self-explanatory. But the poem is more self-contained than it appears when you read only fragments of it, and its allusions are often (iii)________ by their contexts or by their repeated appearances in changing contexts.
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Jane Austen belonged to the social class about which she mainly wrote, and although her novels offer abundant satire, one never has the sense that she viewed the basic elements of this social sphere as _________.
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Although technically their members were hunter-gatherers, many early Native California communities exhibited traits more typically associated with well-developed agrarian societies and, therefore, are often presented in the ethnographic literature as ________.
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Archaeopteryx had feathers on its hind limbs that helped stabilize it and acted as air brakes, allowing the otherwise _________ creature to turn more adeptly and fly steadily.
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Since responsibility for content is often _________ in multiauthor papers, it is easy to suppose that such papers may contain more instances of questionable academic practices than do papers by a single author.
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Although celluloid film does record traces of real light reflected by real objects, this does not (i) _________ its representational truth: the image is still prone to technical manipulation. Conversely, digital video's lack of a physical, photochemical trace does not (ii) _________ : digital video can just as well (iii) _________ the presence of real objects at a given moment in time.
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These preludes and fugues might be thought of as _________ Bach' s final works, glimpses of what he would accomplish in later pieces such as The Art of the Fugue.
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Science is so good at what it does that many people feel a (i)________ to apply it to social and political issues, yet experience shows that science may add little to or even (ii)_________ social and political questions.
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Anonymous sources have a tendency to (i)________ the information content of news stories in which they are quoted. Most of these sources are (ii)________ because they spin and leak selectively for political, personal, or institutional gain; all the balancing quotations from other sources can never remove their (iii)________.
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While offering important insights into supernova remnants, Finch's paper is often rather (i)________: it is (ii)________ unexplained concepts and details.
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The figure shows the width, length, and height of a rectangular solid. Which of the following statements must be true?
Indicate all such statements.
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Helen plays a game at an amusement park in which each player can win prizes valued at $$$1$$, $5 or $10$$. If she plays the game 3 times and wins a prize at least twice, which of the following could be the total value of the prizes won?
Indicate all such values.
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A car traveled at an average speed of $$45$$ miles per hour for $$1$$ hour, at an average speed of $$60$$ miles per hour for the next $$\frac{1}{2}$$ hour, and then at an average speed of $$50$$ miles per hour for another $$\frac{1}{2}$$ hour. What was the car's average speed, in miles per hour, for the $$2$$ hours?
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If $$a=\frac{b}{6}$$ and $$a =2-c$$, then in terms of $$a$$, what is the value of $$b+c$$ ?
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In the rectangular coordinate system above, if $$(6, 5)$$ is the midpoint of $$OP$$, what is the area of triangular region $$OPQ$$?
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The positive number $$y$$ has the property that $$y$$ percent of $$y$$ is $$169$$. What is the value of $$y$$?
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