Throughout the debate, he was less noxious and less detached from reality than the others, though there were reminders that he is not all that moderate.
"One may not want to eradicate a population, but rather to transform it genetically so that it is less noxious," he wrote in a 2003 paper, "Site-Specific Selfish Genes as Tools for the Control and Genetic Engineering of Natural Populations".
Obama's use of the phrase in his speech was less noxious because he referenced only the Holocaust itself, while McCain used it in a more apocalyptic sense to evoke Iranian genocide against Israel.
We show that following UVB exposure mice with induced Trpv4 deletions, specifically in keratinocytes, are less sensitive to noxious thermal and mechanical stimuli than control animals.
The types of dispersants used today are far less noxious than the industrial-strength degreasers used in the past, said Beth McGee, a senior water quality scientist at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, a nonprofit conservation group in Annapolis, Md., and a coauthor of the 2005 review.
As well as guzzling less gas than the original Routemaster, the Boris Bus will, I hope, be less smelly and noxious, and more welcoming to wheelchairs, baby buggies and anyone luckless enough to be hauling heavy luggage around London.
The fuel is abundant, the process safe and the waste, though radioactive, is far less noxious than the stuff left over from fission.
Moreover, it is less effective in identifying noxious exercises utilizing the signature-based technique because of the quickly changing nature of portable malware [24, 25].
It sells juice from gas-fired plants, those being slightly less noxious than coal plants.
Although this result may appear surprising, it may be adaptive for guards to be less sensitive, and presumably more tolerant, to noxious stimuli (see discussion).
