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But over time, interestingly enough, this concept adopted the branching schema of a tree in what became known as the Porphyrian tree, also considered to be the oldest tree of knowledge.
And these technologies were very promising, but the problem was that they were either inefficient, or they were difficult enough to use that most scientists had not adopted them for use in their own laboratories, or certainly for many clinical applications.
"We adopted our son.
When the new constitution was adopted in 1787, the structure of the infant government of the United States called for three separate branches, each with their own powers, and a system of checks and balances.
We adopted the fledgling internet working standard from the States, followed by the rest of Europe, and we established the principal link at CERN between Europe and the States in 1989, and the truly global internet took off!
By the next Olympic Games, almost all of the competing of high jumpers had adopted what came to be known as the Fosbury Flop.
How has the situation come to this, that we've adopted such an inhumane response to a humanitarian crisis?
Brazil has adopted a pioneering approach where over 2,000 Syrians have been able to get humanitarian visas, enter Brazil, and claim refugee status on arrival in Brazil.
And so impeachment was adopted in the United States as a power of Congress applying to any civil officers, up to and including the president.
I am the adopted son of a police officer, a Marine and a hairdresser.
He was adopted by those who I know as my grandparents.
One in a toasted-peanut skin and the other, also adopted, more on the beige side, like a pancake.
So, as I look back over the past six years, first I remember the day the Paris agreement was adopted.
We also adopted by ballot referendum the Office of Immigrant Affairs for the City of New York.
And now that I've been there for 28 years, I really couldn't tell you very much at all about my adopted home.
But consider this: the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which is the most widely adopted arms control treaty in history with 190 signatories, sets no specific date by which the world's nuclear-armed nations will get rid of their nuclear weapons.
No sooner was it proposed than reformers in Nigeria adopted it, pushed it and published the revenues in the paper.
She adopted a child.
We adopted these practices in our own communities, and so it's no wonder why today the typical ideal vision of a professional black woman, especially in corporate America, tends to look like this, rather than like this.
Sometimes I'll be alone, sometimes with other people, sometimes in a restaurant, sometimes at home, but the rule that I've adopted is: I will never use my phone at the table.
Those two parties adopted positions on national politics that were extreme and exaggerated.
So there are seven principles that have now been adopted by the highest levels in the Chinese government, and they're moving to implement them.
China has now adopted policies that put six meters of bike lane on every street.
Models like these are being adopted across Lagos.
A lot of the kids who had been adopted wrote back to the other kids, telling them what their life was like with their new families.
This is a woman who is now working at the orphanage, whose son had been adopted.
And the pilot, Jeff Cowley, actually went back and adopted one of the other kids at the orphanage after meeting Natasha.
The answer both to why has a car seat been so successful, and why this may someday be adopted or not, lies in a story that my dad told me, relating to when he was a doctor in the U.S. Air Force in England.
I was raised there in part by my grandmother who worked as a domestic, and by my sister, who adopted me a few years after our mother, who struggled with mental illness, disappeared.
Adopted by the Black Arts movement, I won the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam title.
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