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While the writer was best known for her much-ballyhooed _____, her impact reached far beyond memorable quips.
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Although she admitted that her airport expansion plan had recently collapsed, the governor (i)_____ the significance of the failure, pointing out that competing economic development proposals are now more (ii)_____.
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Assessing otters' environmental requirements is surprisingly (i)___________. One reason for this has to do with establishing how much they use different areas. Doing so may be (ii)____________ in some kinds of terrain,such as Shetland, where the Eurasian otters are active in daytime and have clear individual markings. There it is possible to recognize individuals over stretches of coast of a few kilometers and to see what kinds of coast they use. However, those kinds of field conditions are (iii)____________.
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Even the reader acquainted with the outlines of Pushkin`s biography will be (i)_____ the (ii)_____ so vividly conveyed in Binyon`s biography. Not only was Pushkin`s personal correspondence intercepted and his movements (iii)_____, but Tsar Nicholas I`s decision to oversee Pushkin`s career obliged Pushkin to submit all his manuscripts for inspection.
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While normal floods resulting from usual monsoon rainfall are _____ the growth of crops, recently there has been an increase in the frequency of high-intensity floods that do not have such welcome effects.
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The difficulty of reforming electoral politics is not lack of the right tools but the need to put them into the hands of impartial agents: the goal should be to build capacity while _____ partisanship.
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That guild of experts has always appraised the economic stimulation plan as bootless, while the advocates of the policy do not take their _____ evaluation for granted.
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In noting that critical and popular opinions about Li's art coincided, Chuang _____ the existence of an exception to her general theory of art criticism, which posits that critics' views do not intersect with those of the general public.
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One baffling aspect of the novel is its capacity to generate emotional power from a plot that lacks the most elementary _____: readers must accept not an occasional coincidence, but a continuous stream of them.
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Though humanitarian emergencies are frequent features of television news, such exposure seldom _____ the public, which rather seems resigned to a sense of impotency.
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Partly because of Lee`s skill at synthesizing (i)_____ trends drawn from many fields of study, her theories appeared to present, with uncanny aptness, ideas already (ii)_____ in the minds of her contemporaries.
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Research into butterfly wings could have (i)_____ implications, since knowledge of their optical and thermal properties may be (ii)_____ controlling the behavior of computer chips, which likewise consist of finely structured thin film.
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Viewing people as ''social atoms'' that obey rather simple rule (which are not unlike the laws of physics), one may discover certain (i)_____. Take, for example, the way channels emerge when people move in crowds. In the midst of initially (ii)_____ movements, one person begins to follow another-in an effort to avoid collisions-and streams of movement emerge. As more people join in, there is greater pull on others to join the flow, and the particular channels become (iii)_____.
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In this single volume, Kenny aims to survey for the general reader all of ancient philosophy; understandably, space in such a book is (i)_____, and he is not to be faulted for minor omissions. However, Kenny would have added significantly to his book`s value had he more effectively (ii)_____ the influence of ancient philosophy on the subsequent tradition. As it is, newcomers to the subject will have little (iii)_____ the afterlife enjoyed by ancient philosophy in the period 1600-1750.
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The ambassador's critical remarks seemed to be less a product of _____ and more the careless utterances of a fatigued or undisciplined individual.
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In sharp contrast to the novel`s scenic realism and precisely characterized figure is its persistent philosophical _____.
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Individuals, governments, and companies show ample ability to _____ themselves by setting goals based on current conditions and then blindly following them even when those conditions change drastically.
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The cat known to researchers as M-120-beefy, audacious, and apparently smart enough to spot a free lunch-is perhaps the world`s least _____ lynx: the scientists catch him several times a year.
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Among the Meakambut people of Papua New Guinea, legends are associated with specific caves in the Sepik region, and these legends are _____: only the cave owner can share its secrets.
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The province has long claimed to be just another developing region, even as its economy _____ those of other regions and threatens to eclipse the rest of the country combined.
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