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The politician's record while in office, though (i)____________, hardly accounts for her high standing three decades later—a standing all the more (ii)____________ because of continuing assaults on her reputation during those years.
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At first glance, each of the stories in the anthology seemed (i)____________; upon closer inspection of their protagonists, implied morals, and fantasy elements, however, subtle similarities among the stories emerged to (ii)____________ this initial observation.
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Often, developing new methods for scientific research demands a willingness to reach across disciplinary boundaries, something that is notoriously difficult to carry out. Therefore, even though interdisciplinarity is often proclaimed to be (i)____________, there are many structural reasons why it remains (ii)____________.
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To pay for the extra spending under this international poverty plan, each American would have to contribute less than the cost of buying a premium cup of coffee once a week. But financial aid is not (i)____________, and even if the funding recommended here were to (ii)____________, the grandest objectives may well remain unfulfilled. Nonetheless, carefully targeted aid can reward responsible governments, (iii)____________ individual initiative, and alleviate suffering. Many will think that`s worth a cup of coffee.
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If it is wrong to justify human selfishness on the basis of the alleged selfishness of nature, then it is equally mistaken to espouse ____________ merely because some animals happily assist each other.
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In many branches of science, our knowledge and technology have advanced so rapidly that new studies carried out with improved instruments and techniques may well ___________ research done just twenty years earlier.
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The campaign official argued that the large swings in the candidate's approval ratings were a result not of the ____________ of the electorate but rather of the polls' margins of error and divergent methodologies.
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Beauford Delaney`s dynamic depictions of Harlem and Greenwich Village, dating from 1929 to 1953, _______________ the energy of the city, while the equally captivating abstract compositions from his Paris years of 1953 to 1979 demonstrate his sustained exploration of color.
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The philosophy of Zhuangzi, because it implied a spiritual elite who could transcend the bonds of the world and wander in a realm beyond life and death, appealed to a society dominated by ______________.
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The book is not comprehensive but is, instead, (i)____________ in the most positive sense of the world: it (ii)____________ rather than settles.
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On one point the book may be said to be (i)____________: while the author claims that he will not (ii)____________ populism, his discussion implicitly attributes to it certain core beliefs and principles.
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Angela Merkel was genuinely new figure in politics, someone who could potentially bridge the two halves of Germany, which had drifted apart in recent years. And yet the (i)_____ circumstances of her victory (ii)_______ the reservations Germans had about her. She was chosen not with a rousing popular mandate but after protracted backroom negotiations.
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The (i)____________ in local coverage of a rabies outbreak in colonial Hanoi may be startling today, but it cannot be attributed solely to the (ii)____________ of the era`s journalists. Rather, before the advent of modern public health systems, (iii)____________ the unpleasantness of the disease and its treatment was seen as a way to ensure that the public remained vigilant against possible sources of contagions.
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Paleoclimatic records recovered from land, the ocean, and glacial ice (i)____________ a (ii)____________ global climate over much of the last glacial cycle. Indeed, in many locations in the Northern Hemisphere, changes in climate spanning almost the full range of glacial to interglacial conditions were so (iii)____________ that the transition between climate states occurred in decades or less.
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The _____________ diction of the short Somali poetry form known as balwo was well suited for political purposes: invective could easily be hidden in an apparent love poem.
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The athlete had long been recognized as having two sides to her personality: she was an imperious, steely competitor and at the same time ___________ sportswoman.
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The common principle behind the hourglass and the water clock is ___________: controlled movement of a fluid or fluid-like substance from one vessel to another can measure a predetermined amount of time.
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Monarch butterflies sequester toxins in their skin to discourage predators, but black-backed orioles (Icterus abeillei) ___________ the defense: they consume only the soft insides of the butterfly.
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The company suffers from an almost total lack of ____________: even the most innocuous communications between departments tend to devolve into acrimony.
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Some species` camouflage patterns may be ___________, granting those species a higher chance of survival in a heterogeneous environment.
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