Implementation of the MLPA required stakeholders to understand and use a complicated set of spatial and scientific guidelines for MPA design that relied heavily on geographic information.
After a series of meetings between Dynegy and its auditor, Arthur Andersen, the company decided to create a complicated set of partnerships and transactions that would increase its cash flow and net income while also offering tax advantages, the S.E.C. said.
Powers tackled the question with a complicated set of experiments and analysis: He measured the animals' oxygen intake and adjusted it for age-related differences in body composition, organ weight, and blood concentrations of thyroid hormone, which controls oxygen-dependent metabolism.
Sharia is a complicated set of laws and regulations, but if one thing about those laws and regulations is clear it is that they must be applied even-handedly.
Critics say the B.C.S. is unfair to teams from outside the six most powerful and wealthiest conferences, whose champions are guaranteed a berth in the series, and they disagree with the national championship being determined by a complicated set of polls and computer rankings rather than on the field.
In the end, a complicated set of political and financial pressures kept the program ripe for corruption.Mr.
But what happened to LaKira's pregnancy raises a complicated set of legal and moral questions about what constitutes a life when taken by a stranger.
In practice, Professor Freed said, the guidelines imposed a mechanistic rigidity on sentencing by obliging judges to adhere to a complicated set of charts and tables in determining a sentence.
Smolke explained that she tackled the project even though many experts in the field viewed it as impossible — because it involved reengineering a complicated set of reactions and mix of enzymes that work together within the opioid poppy to build the opioid molecules.
The $625.5 million sale, which involved taking over a public real estate investment trust and making it part of the private Lightstone Group, took 18 months -- and was like "dealing with a huge, dysfunctional family, trying to get everyone to agree on a complicated set of points and each sign on the dotted line," Mr. Lichtenstein said.
In order for his climactic scenes – a cascade of triumphs, near-disasters and outright catastrophes, including the reprisal massacre at Lidice – to make their full impact, quite a complicated set of political and historical circumstances have to be laid in place.
