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She took our order, and then went to the couple in the booth next to us, and she lowered her voice so much, I had to really strain to hear what she was saying.
So there's a very sharp decline in liberal ideas in the Muslim world, and what you see is more of a defensive, rigid, reactionary strain, which led to Arab socialism, Arab nationalism and ultimately to the Islamist ideology.
In the best of times it puts strain on our resources.
I gave her medications to relieve the strain on her heart.
Now the odd thing is, is that once you've been bitten by this mosquito, and you've had this disease, your body develops antibodies, so if you're bitten again with that strain, it doesn't affect you.
So the next time you get dengue fever, if it's a different strain, you're more susceptible, you're likely to get worse symptoms, and you're more likely to get the more severe forms, hemorrhagic fever or shock syndrome.
We're simply trying to recreate in this tiny chip the smallest functional unit that represents the biochemistry, the function and the mechanical strain that the cells experience in our bodies.
The more we like each other, the more we avoid the real cooperation that would strain our relationships by imposing tough tradeoffs.
That sort of likens it to the amount of strain to be at the service of the observer and present this piece of paper very delicately to the viewer in front of them.
For the first time, we had a flu vaccine developed ahead of time for a new and potentially dangerous strain, and the US government ordered a stockpile.
That flu vaccine could even be specifically tailored to the flu strain that's circulating in that local area.
But if you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes, and we become attached to the heroic strain in our own lives.
We put them in a materials testing machine to look at the stress strain analysis and showed that they can withstand forces 800 times their body weight, and after this they can fly and run absolutely normally.
Some genealogy has an elitist strain, like people say, "Oh, I'm descended from Mary Queen of Scots and you're not, so you cannot join my country club."
They did an x-ray and discovered an injury in her lungs, and at the time they thought that the injury was a strain in the muscles and tendons between her ribs, but after a few weeks of treatment, again her health wasn't getting any better.
So here's some data from a maize strain that's very popularly used in Africa.
Over time, this causes wear and tear in your spinal discs, overworks certain ligaments and joints, and puts strain on muscles that stretch to accommodate your back's curved position.
This keeps your center of gravity directly over your base of support, which allows you to move efficiently with the least amount of fatigue and muscle strain.
Here, the word Gothic was repurposed again to describe a literary genre that emerged as a darker strain of Romanticism.
And many secondary headache triggers, like dehydration, eye strain, and stress, can be proactively avoided.
Unfortunately, there's one very tiny problem, and that is that the user of this product, you or I, would probably die within one week of the next winter, when we encountered a new strain of the influenza virus.
And this is putting enormous strain on infrastructure and services.
I say we're going to take a long-lived strain of mouse, which basically means mice that live about three years on average.
We need rapid diagnostics so that we can tell if somebody has a strain of flu which we have only identified very recently.
This is a strain that kills up to 60 percent of the people it infects, more than Ebola.
So we don't actually know what the lethality was of the 1918 strain to wild birds before it jumped from birds to humans.
It's a strain of bacteria that's found in the soil where it lives in a community with other organisms, decomposing organic matter.
So that's why every year you can catch a slightly different strain of flu.
The system is reliable but the problem is you never know how well a strain is going to grow.
This year's swine flu strain grew very poorly in early production: basically .6 doses per egg.
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