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A second kind of comparison focused on so-called paralogous proteins, which are descended from a common ancestor within the same creature as a result of gene duplications.
He was not deemed a creature of the "family" (Yeltsin's trusted advisers, supporters and aids).
Third and last, the past two decades saw America change from a largely middle-class society of the same genus as Europe's social democracies into a creature with extremes of wealth unseen since before World War I.
Then, five years later, the missing evidence showed up at another site in East Africa where, 3.3 million years ago, some creature was making flaked stone tools for the apparent purpose of butchery.
This date is too early for that creature to have belonged to a species of Homo, so it must have been an ancestor.
Free to Be FatLONDON – The classic 1981 horror movie The Monster Club, starring Vincent Price, Donald Pleasance, and John Carradine as monsters, included a cast of cannibals, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and a hybrid creature called a “shadmock.”
As the Chinese Communist Party elite and their relatives, foreign financial institutions, and some Chinese small investors (enabled by margin lending) made money on stocks, no one bothered to comprehend the mutant creature they were milking.
We are told that global warming will wipe out this majestic creature.
The combination of foreign-policy optimism, creature comforts, and domestic repression seems to be a potent elixir.
The heroine of the US Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin, is as much a creature of twittering and the vast new blogosphere as she is of television and radio – perhaps more so.
And Biden is too much a creature of the establishment to plausibly attack the rich.
The explanation is a special-interest lobby operating largely out of public view – a political creature that has stalked America’s judiciary for generations and is determined to capture as much control as it can, while it can.
But the more light we can shine on their creature, the less able it will be to operate in the shadows.
More generally, as a monetary union that lacks a fiscal union to share risks, the eurozone is an unstable creature.
I don't know.''Haven't you heard?''You know I shall be the last to hear of it!''Is there a creature more venomous than that Kartasova?''But what has she done?''My husband told me...
But now, having returned to the world of actuality, he had to make great efforts to understand that she was alive and well, and that the creature that was yelling so desperately was his son.
And Mary Vlasevna held out to Levin on one hand (the other merely supporting the nape of the shaky head) this strange, limp, red creature, that hid its head in its swaddling clothes.
What he felt toward this little creature was not at all what he had anticipated.
– a hideous old creature!
'What have I discovered?' he asked himself, turning back the leaf that it should not hinder the insect and bending another blade for the creature to pass on to.
And although he made the greatest efforts of imagination, he could not picture to himself the bestial creature he would have been, had he not known what he was living for.
His wife had appeared, a pitiful creature who passed all her days over a ledger, without even daring to lift her head.
"That lean, little creature!
The latter decided to place Estelle on a chair, and by a miracle, finding herself near the fire the child did not scream, but turned towards her parents the vague eyes of a little creature without intelligence.
He, always restrained, and taking refuge in the deceptive coldness of a man of business, was torn by desire for this creature, one of those late desires which are so violent and which increase with age.
Only Mouquette was showing her teeth with laughter, amused at the way in which Mother Brulé was abusing her daughter, an unnatural creature who had sent her away that she might gorge herself with rabbit, a creature who had sold herself and who fattened on her man's baseness.
Then a shudder ran over her childish breast, over the belly and thighs of the poor little creature deflowered before her time.
A fine guard, that poor creature worn out by blows!
Since he had been here he noticed at a window of his house his wife's thin silhouette, pale and confused, behind the panes; no doubt she was watching the blows with her usual silent air of a poor beaten creature.
For every rotten society there must be a massacre, until the last creature was exterminated.
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