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As his lab worked on the mechanism that under certain circumstances causes the bacterium E. coli suddenly to produce bacterial viruses (which had been dormant), another research group was analyzing how the synthesis of a certain enzyme in E. coli is induced in the presence of a specific sugar.
From the 1970s to the late 2000s, demography was essentially a dormant issue.
France also agreed -- in principle -- with other NATO members on the creation of multinational forces, such as the one organized to separate the warring parties in Bosnia, and on the idea of a "European defense identity," implying reactivation of the European Defense Union, created in 1955 but dormant since.
The Great Deflation now gripping both sides of the Atlantic is reviving political forces that had lain dormant since the end of World War II.
The Union State has been dormant since 1997, but it could be revived to serve Putin’s purposes.
The best way to make that point would be to revive the dormant debate about adopting narrow guidelines for military intervention, as recommended by my commission and Secretary-General Annan prior to the UN vote in 2005.
But, rather than seizing on that shift to legitimize its birth in the eyes of its Arab neighbors, Israel preferred to reopen the dormant debate on Zionism’s territorial objectives.
But, with today’s dormant markets, the pickings are slim.
This suggests that the issue of modernization, which lay dormant throughout the fat years of high oil prices, is back on the Kremlin agenda.
This is a point made most recently by former ECB president Wim Duisenberg in a CNN interview -- Europe must wait before its dormant growth engine re-ignites.
Though intolerant conservatives are currently in firm control of Iran’s government, the moderates and reformists among the political elite – dormant but not dead – may be resuscitated by Obama’s victory.
Once rates get to 5% or 6%, assuming inflation remains dormant, the Fed can expect a backlash from Congress, the administration, unions, homebuilders, and others.
It is less clear whether they have enough historical sense to know that they are poking a monster that post-World War II generations hoped was dead but that we now know only lay dormant, until obliviousness to the past could enable it to be reawakened.
Opponents of the trade say demand for horns could increase as a result of legalization, reviving dormant interest.
To date, however, this legislation has lain dormant.
In a world of slow growth, high debt, and tremendous distributional pressures, whether inflation is dead or merely dormant is an important question.
Recognizing that inflation is only dormant renders foolish the oft-stated claim that any country with a flexible exchange rate has nothing to fear from high debt, as long as debt is issued in its own currency.
Inflation may be dormant, but it is certainly not dead.
Recently, the eurozone debt crisis, dormant since 2012, has looked as though it could erupt again.
It’s not as if Asian consumer demand is dormant.
The female gives birth to a fully mature larva, which pupates and remains dormant underground until it hatches as an adult.
After the failure of President George W. Bush’s and Senator Edward Kennedy’s comprehensive immigration reform effort last spring, most observers thought the matter would remain dormant until 2009, since even touching it was potentially fatal for Democrats and Republicans alike.
The good news is that, as we search for new ways to push plants to do more, the most promising technologies are natural, resting dormant in the ground beneath our feet, waiting only to be discovered.
By awakening dormant fears, this debate threatens to halt what to many had seemed like a budding nuclear renaissance.
When conditions improve, the dormant life forms revive and reproduce.
Moreover – and this has proved to be the hardest part of all – we have had to deal with the pernicious legacy that the Communist period left behind in our souls and to confront all the bad things which had lain dormant in us, and which our newly acquired freedom brought to the surface of our lives.
Recent studies – from both the laboratory and the clinic – suggest that many cancer cells that leave the primary tumor may lodge themselves in new organs and go into a dormant state.
We also have evidence that says that these dormant cells may resist most current treatments.
Moreover, we are beginning to identify molecular mechanisms that regulate the entry of cancer cells into a dormant state, as well as their re-awakening at later times.
We also need to understand better the prevalence of long-term dormant disease in patients.
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