It's not for the activation or anything of that sort, but Apple requires you to use a marked form of payment for the transaction to help eliminate scalpers, a problem it's had between itself and AT&T.
As they struggle to reach a budget deal that would allow Congress to extend the nation's borrowing authority beyond an August 2 deadline, Republican leaders in the House of Representatives must keep an eye on a back bench that has shown a marked distaste for any sort of compromise.
Therefore, atrial cells from 8-week-old mice were used in subsequent experiments (n = 3 per experiment), allowing for a marked abbreviation of the sorting procedure.
"In the United States Army, from the time I was a West Point captain, really, I was sort of a marked man," he said, as we talked one day in New York.
The roads are public property, and allowing your horse to shit in them is a sort of vandalism, a marked disregard for the lives of others.
Propidium Iodide (PI) assay showed a marked difference in the cell cycle of CD133 sorted cells.
It is a marked change from a year ago.
Moreover, cell sorting of ALDHbright cells in human BM enables a marked enrichment of CFC-H as well as of endothelial and fibroblast colonies [ 11].
They were up 2%, a marked slowdown from 9% a year earlier.
The sort of small differences in cell count which, as we have shown, can have a marked effect on estimates, are an inevitable consequence of sampling variability.
"I guess it is sort of like a bar mitzvah," Mr. Alawan, 62, joked as he looked around the restaurant gathering, a marked contrast to the discomforts of the hajj.
