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The results of the latest survey being ____________, earlier results gave researchers little relevant experience for the new data's interpretation.
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Despite the fact that the political scientist's negative forecast about the country's future is altogether (i)____________, its believability is (ii)____________ by her unrelenting pessimism.
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It is often the case that a certain intellectual advantage may be found by being (i)____________ an established field of knowledge, but even if you accept the argument about the importance of (ii)____________ thinking, it is hardly the only significant thinking there is.
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The power of laughter to affect the perceived funniness of television programming is (i)____________: most researchers have found that the inclusion of laughter on a program's soundtrack (ii)____________ the overall perception of humor, although it appears that it can (iii)____________ humor at specific points and thus boost the total comic appeal of the program.
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Tao Zhu and Yaobin Lu found that personality traits can affect user adoption of mobile commerce, suggesting that a mobile service provider could benefit from ____________ the market, specifically targeting extroverts, for instance.
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Stars are not ____________ like people, they are born, they live, and then they die.
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Fara's book is no ordinary account of how scientific knowledge has accumulated. Instead, Fara focuses on how science has been guided by social and political factors. Her aim is to (i)____________ the notion of science as an objective search for truth. The study is an impressive (ii)___________ the idealization of science. Yet Fara takes her argument too far by (iii)_____________ how the knowledge produced by science relates to the external world: she treats all theories as equal, regardless of whether they are supported by evidence.
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Whereas unimaginative novelists were once routinely accused of simply changing the personal names in works that would otherwise have been (i)_____________, today it is more common to learn, conversely, that a genuine piece of (ii)____________ has been (iii)__________ a writer's true confessions.
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Natural selection has favored some instinctive reactions of organisms over others, so only those that promote survival and reproduction have become established, but instinctive responses need not be : they may adjust over time.
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Gramwell claims that questions such as "What are the core assumptions of astronarmy" are ____________ the field of astronomical science; if someone is discussing the nature of astronomy, that individual is engaged in the philosophy of science rather than astronomy itself.
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Orchestra players are not always the best judges of conduction. Not surprisingly, when evaluating conductors they put a high premium on musicianship and (i)____________ and therefore typically gravitate toward conductors who are both technically competent and (ii)____________. But the ability to galvanize a hundred musicians into giving a great performance requires more than proficiency and affability.
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Some renewable energy technologies are quite ____________: for example, hydro power from dams and rivers has been a source of power generation since the early 1900s, and today it supplies sixteen percent of electricity worldwide.
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The prime minister's reputation for ____________ was sullied when it was revealed that he had known of fraudulent activities taking place in the country's banking system but failed to report them.
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Because her poetry can be so (i)____________, Sylvia Plath's continued popularity with readers may seem surprising, but perhaps it is precisely that (ii)____________ quality that accounts for Plath's persistence: her poetry satisfies a hunger for subjective intuitions.
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By the end of the 1970s, the postmodern novel had degenerated from a bold attempt to (i)____________ the conventions of traditional narrative into a literary style as (ii)____________ as any other. There are, it seems, (iii)____________ number of ways to avoid telling a straightforward story.
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Although legislators on both sides of issues have repeatedly (i)____________ a desire to find a middle ground, until now their actions disclose an unwillingness to (ii)____________ any compromise. The script followed by the latest statements has therefore become a familiar one: (iii)____________ posturing of questionable sincerity accompanied by an hint of real concessions.
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Though the art of writing was well established in Egypt and Mesopotama long before Shang period, the Chinese writing that appeared then seems to have been an entirely ______________ development.
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Neuroscientists are discovering that our sensory systems are much more interconnected than previously thought: even in ordinary circumstances, our senses can ____________ one another in extraordinary ways.
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Though her works demonstrate a remarkable dexterity and command of technique with oil paint, as an artist Mangala Bai Thampuratty (1866-1953) was not ____________, having produced only a few paintings.
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The evidence for short-term effects of prenatal and early postnatal conditions on barn swallow is (i)____________. However, early-life ecological conditions, such as the size of the brood in which young are reared, may be similarly (ii)____________, affecting birds well into adulthood.
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