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Susanne Prediger argues that although rational decimals and fractions are mathematically equivalent, students generally deal with them in _____ ways, hence they are not cognitively equivalent.
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Although Lemettais was _____ computer engineering, he lacked the spirit or enthusiasm to pursue it as a lifelong occupation.
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The architecture of the Shanghai Bund was for decades presented as an archetypal symbol of abhorrent Western influence, which may be one of the reasons that these grand buildings were _____ for so many years.
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The wonder of Amy Chapman was her _____, her tenacious devotion to certain causes.
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In her new biography, Gonzalez doesn`t (i)_____ the aspects of her subject that have drawn criticism but instead creates them with considerable (ii)_____: hardly a fact or assertion goes by her without being sourced in the endnotes.
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The governor is known for her unwillingness to (i)_____ policy decisions in the face of opponents: typically, if she announces a specific policy and is confronted with objections from interest groups, she (ii)_____ the policy.
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At least one otter species, the sea otter, has a large, often dominating, effect on the structure of its own habitat. There is no evidence that other species have ever exercised such (i)_____ effects. That lack of evidence could merely be because the other species have been studied less thoroughly. However, the size and density of the historic sea otter populations in many Pacific coastal regions (ii)_____ those of other otter species elsewhere, so perhaps the sea otter is indeed (iii)_____ in its effects on habitat.
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For many years Cole experienced (i)_____ his professional circle. He was a (ii)_____ figure in the Middle East Studies Association of North America, editing for five years its flagship publication, and in 2004 he was even elected the association`s incoming president. But because his research focused on highly (iii)_____ aspects of the eighteenth-and-nineteenth century Middle East, he was unlikely to achieve any sort of public acclaim.
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In science, replicability comes with the idea that the pursuit of scientific truth should not be _____: researchers who make claims must allow others to test them empirically.
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Even the most hard-nosed critics could hardly deny that the novelist`s best books are _____: they are filled with energy, imagination, and something close to a white-hot inspiration.
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Liam Clancy described the young Bob Dylan as a sponge, eagerly absorbing the possibilities life and culture might provide, and Dylan presents himself so in his memoir, _____ in his intellectual and musical curiosity.
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The Red Sea town of Aydhab presents scholars with _____: medieval records describe it as a major port for ships engaged in trade, yet today there is no trace of a viable harbor at the site.
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The author affects _____ in the tone of his novels that is quite at odds with his predilection for invective in his nonfiction publications.
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The combination of Isabella Beeton`s short life and the _____ of evidence for some parts of her story means that at times her biography, Kathryn Hughes, is forced to fill out her narrative with background information.
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Far from (i)_____ the actions taken by the newspaper's executives, William praised the executive's resistance to corruption—yet he doubted that their policies were practical enough to warrant (ii)_____ by other papers.
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If you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as (i)_____. We are far too willing to (ii)_____ the belief that much of what we see in life is random.
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Although political events in different countries were (i)_____ in the nineteenth century, their interrelationship was (ii)_____ compared with the present, when (iii)_____ has become far greater, isolationism has ceased to be an option.
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At a recent conference on ancient DNA, one presentation opened with the claim that the field was now mature and could move ahead with confidence. This (i)_____ is (ii)_____, as demonstrated at the conference by the many presentations that notably lacked an adequate methodology for ensuring that DNA was uncontaminated by material that is more recent. In fact, ancient DNA research presents extreme technical difficulties, in part precisely because of the (iii)_____ of surviving DNA.
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As clucks of disapproval about Americans` political _____ have grown louder in recent years, many historians have looked for contrast to the decades before the Civil War as a time when Americans were enthusiastically engaged in politics.
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The latest publications predicting disastrous coastal erosion are unlikely to _____ knowledgeable readers because variations on the same claims have been effectively refuted in the past few years.
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