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One view of historicism holds that systems of belief prevalent during different periods in history are _____ and therefore cannot be understood except in their own term.
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The company suffers from an almost total lack of _____: even the most innocuous communications between departments lend to devolve into acrimony.
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One way to predict the effects of global climate change on an ecosystem is to extrapolate current trend in global change factors into the future. A (i)_____ of this method is that its predictions (ii)_____ actual observation, but the method also makes the questionable assumption that the future will resemble the present.
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So (i)_____ is the reputation of the city`s police force for (ii)_____ that whenever a new police chief take office, he or she routinely promises to clean up the force.
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Scientists said that cosmology was the field where the ratio of theory to data was (i)_____: there was an abundance of theories, but almost no data. Recently, however, that ratio has flipped. A huge and ever-increasing amount of data has (ii)_____ all theories but one.
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Many fairy tales are complex narratives of wish fulfillment. They teach the reader that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is (i)_____, that it is an intrinsic part of human existence, and that if one does not (ii)_____, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end (iii)_____.
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Despite her rather _____ choices, Moreland was neither a rebellious spirit nor someone who saw herself as anything out of the ordinary.
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Despite their cultural and social significance, rapid growth, and widespread appear in China, video games—unlike traditional media—have received _____ attention from international communication researches.
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The artist`s career was remarkable partly because it was so _____: she died, with only a few paintings to her credit, while still in her twenties.
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Scholars have marveled over the (i)_____ that Shakespeare displays in his works, noting that such broad learning is all the more remarkable given that books were relatively (ii)_____ in Shakespeare`s time.
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She was never (i)_____; she was nothing if not discreet, so she (ii)_____ for the present to declare her passion.
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Except for a few passages in the biography in which the subject`s flaws are (i)_____, the author`s treatment of her subject is (ii)_____.
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In Ramachandran's opinion, it is perfectly acceptable to propose bold speculations about the brain, even if these speculations seem _____; as Ramachandran frequently remarks, science thrives on risky conjecture.
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Any notion of justice in the fortunes of artists is _____: works of equal value and quality produce quite different returns or no returns at all.
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Agencies responsible for protecting natural resources too often issue permits allowing exploitation of those resources, a process that remains _____ given that agencies have become experts at masking their decisions in the scientific terms.
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The history of the region`s natural resources has been one of initial (i)_____ followed by (ii)_____; as such the region has over time gone from a resource-rich to a resource-dependent economy.
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Any account of experimental music in the United States that (i)_____ the predominantly African American bebop and free jazz movements is (ii)_____, since this body of music constitutes what is arguably the most influential African experimental music in the decades following the Second War War.
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Despite the abundance and importance of maize, its biological origin has been a long-running mystery. The bright yellow, mouth-watering treat does not grow in the wild anywhere on the planet, so its (i)_____ is not at all (ii)_____.
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In medieval Europe, watermills were more (i)_____ than windmills. It is true that windmills could be built virtually anywhere, whereas watermills (ii)_____. However, watermills` greater capacity and reliability provided a better (iii)_____ the money required to build the mill.
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Although legislators on both sides of issues have repeatedly _____ a desire to find a middle ground, until now no acceptable compromise has been achieved.
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