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In China, beginning in the 1920s, the field of geography was (i)___________ discourse, alive to indigenous Chinese traditions even as it (ii)___________ key elements of Western scientific geography.
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An affinity for (i)___________ is a characteristic of Bynum`s work and of her rhetorical strategy as a historian, and it is often both refreshing and illuminating. But this predilection for (ii)___________ can be vexing, too, by appearing to eschew necessary distinctions.
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Sociological jurisprudence has a (i)___________ rather than (ii)___________ focus: it is concerned with what actually goes on in the legal system, not with what ought to go on.
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When learners are engaged in mathematical problem-solving, their activity does not have from the outset the structure of what will be considered a mathematical proof. Instead, a tangle of intuitions, know-how, factual knowledge, and a variety of other mental constructs allows learners to entertain choices and make decisions. Nonetheless, (i)___________ such mental activity (ii)___________ is (iii)___________: in many situations this process works, although it can prove to be wrong as a result of overgeneralizations.
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The problem a generation ago was not the new art itself but the heightened intensity of conviction surrounding it, which is thankfully absent in our wonderfully _____________ times.
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He found his new acquaintance to be ___________: trying to understand her personality was like peering into an unknown dimension.
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The _____________ of Craig`s government had left the nation almost totally unprepared for war when it came.
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A priori mathematics, according to Galileo, does not ____________ the need for observation, but mathematics does allow us to deduce unobservable properties and thus to penetrate further into the structure of nature than observation does.
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For Confucius, names had ____________ contents; no matter how time marched on and the affairs of the world changed, the proper names of things absolutely could not vary.
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Astronomy dominated ancient science partly because it was ______________ in a way that the physics and biology of the time were not: even in prehistory, people probably used the apparent motion of the Sun, for example, as a crude clock, calendar, and compass.
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During the decade 2000-2010 in the United States, the increase in self-employed Hispanic entrepreneurs (i)____________ the increase in Hispanic workers overall. Historically, Hispanics have been (ii)____________ in the self-employment sector, so this change reduced the amount by which the Hispanic self-employment rate trailed the overall self-employment rate.
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Unlike, say, locusts, which simply raze entire fields, stinkbugs wreak their havoc (i)____________. The injury they do to corn, for instance, is (ii)____________ the ear is husked, at which point certain kernels—the ones into which a stinkbug stuck its pointy mouth—will reveal themselves to be sunken and brown.
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Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie often reminds her readers that although a novel may not be written as (i)____________, its author`s (ii)____________ may nonetheless be (iii)____________, even if only because the stories we tell always emerge from our particular social and political context.
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It appears that the terrestrial biosphere has been absorbing a significant fraction of anthropogenic CO2, thereby slowing down the rate of global climate change. However, the (i)____________ of this (ii)____________ is not (iii)____________: if pushed too far, the biosphere might become a net source of CO2, thereby accelerating climate change and causing a positive feedback loop.
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Japanese law draws a distinction between currency imitation and actual counterfeiting: only the latter involved an explicit intent to _______________ the public.
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It's easy to see why the aspiring singer was ____________ the awareness of her lack of talent: her shaky voice notwithstanding, she was a kindly woman with a genuine appreciation for music.
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A decisive way to test planet formation hypotheses is to study planetesimals, but these objects are quite ___________, neither numerous nor large enough to emit significant radiation that can be captured by telescopes.
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The ____________ of native South American textiles at the time of the Spanish conquest should not be surprising: it represented the apogee of one of the world`s oldest and most sophisticated weaving and dyeing traditions.
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Since the fundamental frequency of an object`s vibration is determined by its size and shape, a sequence of sounds having _____________ pitch is perceived to have been produced by a single object.
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The field suffers from being puffed up with its own importance, and that attitude of ______________ seems to infect very professional utterance.
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