Cell functions are performed by functional modules [ 10, 33] and gene network co-evolution has been proposed as an important evolutionary driving force agent [ 34].
"You can't do anything about the stickers and the decals," Chris Quick, a former FBI joint terrorism task force agent, told me.
Merriam-Webster tells us that a victim is: 1) one that is acted on and usually adversely affected by a force or agent 2) one that is injured, destroyed, or sacrificed under any of various conditions 3) one that is subjected to oppression, hardship, or mistreatment 4) one that is tricked or duped.
For natural selection to avoid reducing to merely an assumption of natural forces behind evolution (rather than supernatural forces), we must carefully define natural selection as a theory of how evolution occurs, not a force or agent "selecting" traits, organisms or populations.
We had this strong idea of a guy who was a pretty regular bloke; he's not a ninja, he's not a special forces agent... he's fit and healthy, but he's also a bit clumsy – we needed that to come through.
AS A special-forces agent in the French Navy, Michel Malalo has clandestinely entered several African countries by sea to extract endangered French nationals.
Among the many matters they misrepresent are: the significance of carbon emissions as a climate-forcing agent, the mechanics of climate modelling, the temperature record of the past decade, and the climate history of the past several hundred thousand years.
Jet stream variability has been recognized as a powerful forcing agent on local water dynamics such as oceanic upwelling [42], and the present findings suggest similar relationships in lake Baikal.
A furious backlash against a plan for border force agents to check the visa status of people in central Melbourne saw the operation hastily ditched before it began.
LOS ANGELES — Jordan Yospe had some notes on the script for "The 28th Amendment," a thriller about a president and a rogue Special Forces agent on the run.
