Sentence examples for abortive steps from inspiring English sources

In the end, Moyn's main pieces of evidence for taking the 1970s as the time of a human rights breakthrough are Carter's abortive steps to inject human rights into foreign policy and the 1975 Helsinki accords with the Soviet Union.

"In the end," Belinda Cooper writes of my book, "The Last Utopia," "Moyn's main pieces of evidence for taking the 1970s as the time of a human rights breakthrough are Carter's abortive steps to inject human rights into foreign policy and the 1975 Helsinki accords" ("New Birth of Freedom," Sept. 26).

If this is true then identification of small molecules that promote de-adenylation of DNA ligase could potentially reverse the abortive DNA ligase step that creates 5′-AMP breaks and thus circumvent the requirement for APTX.

His filmography certainly hasn't been stellar, but I think he also stepped – especially with the abortive xXx franchise, touted as a kind of multicultural 007 – into the kind of overly focus-grouped, demographic no-man's land that is the most artificial aspect of multiculturalism, and that infringes upon the rules of close audience identification on which stardom ultimately rests.

It was 4.08pm when the Pringle erupted for the first time, when Vicky Pendleton and Jess Varnish stepped up for their ultimately abortive attempt on team sprint gold.

The last step in (1) competes with abortive initiation [ 14].

Later, we found a factor, designated as influenza virus replication factor (IREF -1, whIREF -1egulates unprimed cRNA synthesis from vRNA by the vRNP complex through promotion of the promoter clearance step and avoidance of premature abortive RNA synthesis.

The budget does not direct the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee or the House Energy and Commerce Committee to draft legislation — a signal that Republicans are stepping aide, for now, from their abortive health-care efforts.

"The budget notably does not direct two key committees with health-care jurisdiction -- the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee or the House Energy and Commerce Committee to draft legislation — a signal that Republicans are stepping aide, for now, from their abortive health-care efforts," Mike writes.

As a result, we are beginning to understand the mechanism of open complex formation, of abortive initiation, as well as the rates for these steps in the eukaryotic system.

During infection of LD652 cells, VACV undergoes early gene expression, DNA replication and late gene expression, but the infection is abortive due to a defect in one or more steps of virion morphogenesis (Li et al., 1998).