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Though certain theories were built on the idea of invisible atoms, some prominent scientists still believed them to be a useful fiction, rather than actual physical objects.
So instead of waiting for cancers to be large enough to cause symptoms, or for them to be dense enough to show up on imaging, or for them to be prominent enough for you to be able to visualize on medical procedures, we can start looking for cancers while they are relatively pretty small, by looking for these small amounts of DNA in the blood.
Sex workers sometimes have two degrees, a bank job and a prominent role in church.
You are prominent.
I was prominent for a 24-year-old: intelligent, I spoke well, dressed decent; I was an upstanding citizen.
Their complexity has kept Austen prominent on stage and screen, and made her work easily adaptable for modern sensibilities.
I'm going to guess that most of you have probably never heard of the Triple Revolution report, but this was a very prominent report.
We've gone through the Sputnik phase, and now, as you see the increase in the pace of what we're doing, it becomes even more prominent.
As a prominent scientist and lecturer, his authority influenced many young doctors of his time.
Hypatia of Alexandria was a prominent mathematician, philosopher, and advisor to the city’s leaders.
Following the revolution, Christophe and generals Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Alexandre Pétion rose to prominent positions in the new government.
Known as the “plica semilunaris,” it’s much more prominent in birds and a few mammals, and functions like a windshield wiper to keep dust and debris out of their eyes.
She accrued a massive library, and was visited by many prominent scholars.
Her sermons denounced the oppression of African Americans and women in general, and became prominent in campaigns for both abolition and women’s rights.
Let's take a final example that's prominent in contemporary political debate: same-sex marriage.
My uncle was a very prominent mathematician, and he told me, "Look, there's a problem which I could not solve 25 years ago, and which nobody can solve.
The other movie I do not think really has that key feature playing that prominent role in the movie and I see the score for this one is higher too, still it was just not the movie I was expecting.
The possessed astronaut's wife, to me, is the weak link in the ensemble - she doesn't seem to know what to do with her face in a lot of her most prominent scenes, for which I blame director Corman.
Saratoga Trunk tells the story of Ingrid Bergman, who is an the child of a prominent New Orleans man and his mistress.
Any time a movie feature a dwarf or a midget in a prominent role, the odds are 10-to-1 that the director threw him in because he didn't know what else to do to keep the movie interesting.
There also were some very prominent names involved in the production, like main stars Rock Hudson ("Giant", "Seconds"), Diane Ladd ("Chinatown", "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore") and director Nelson himself was responsible for the acclaimed classics "Soldier Blue" and "Charly".
As a socially prominent member of the British smart set, her British accent is basically non-existent and her line readings sound just like, well, line readings and her emoting seems trance-like and ponderous.
While the prominent and over use of the play-like format is in total operation throughout the film, it is not however this that lets this picture down.
Nor did it go as far as it might have in exploring what the "investors" -- all those prominent bankers -- thought they were doing.
The brothers can't prevent two more similar "accidents" before discovering the ghost-truck sudden presence relates all the way back to a racial dispute of the 60's, involving both of Cassie's parents as well as several more prominent inhabitants of the little town.
Alice is the daughter of a prominent scientist who invented a device called Mielophone that allows to read minds of humans and animals.
When television was still a young medium, there was a form of entertainment very prominent on the air that is but a memory today: musical variety.
While in one country, Spain, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali combined forces to create the benchmark of short-subject, cinematic surrealism, Un Chien Andalou, Walt Disney and his collaborator Ub Iwerks in America worked on Steamboat Willie, the most prominent of the early synchronized sound cartoons (it was revealed that this was not the first, contrary to other reports).
Speaking in broad terms to avoid giving anything away, the film's style and structure are much more experimental than the straightforward storytelling so prominent in the early 70s.
Roy is able to understand the unintelligible speech of Michael Connolly (Steven Robertson), who was left in the shelter by his prominent father many years ago due to his cerebral palsy, and they become close friends.
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