Yet meeting Phillips in Charleston, South Carolina, the "black Ellis Island" which was the gateway into America for a third of captive Africans, he reveals more complex affiliations.
The Saudis and Qataris are themselves relying on intermediaries — some of them Lebanese — who have struggled to make sense of the complex affiliations of the rebels they deal with.
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We reasoned that professional status (trainee vs professional) and amount of time spent in GHEs were important criteria that would shape perceptions of the complex affiliations and expectations in GHEs.
The more the English try to get to grips with this alien land – its awkward geography, its hostile climate, its complex clans and affiliations – the more clumsy their efforts to tame it look.
This is particularly important in the study of collective phenomena like protest coordination via social media: these communication networks tend to be large and complex, with distinct local affiliations, a small core of highly active actors, and a large periphery of lowly committed users [13] [16].
"The small-business affiliation rules are complex and are not intuitive, so I'm hesitant to potentially trigger jail time for companies that make a mistake," he said in an interview with VetLikeMe, a newsletter for business owners who are wounded veterans, "although I agree that we need to more vigorously enforce the certification rules".
The remaining 184 proteins did not show a clear affiliation to any complex and were excluded from this analysis.
He outlined a mind-numbingly complex network of entities and affiliations.
The affiliation of isolates to clonal complexes (CCs) or sequence types (STs) as defined by MLST [25] was determined by an automated comparison of hybridisation profiles to a collection of reference strains previously characterised by MLST [29]; [29].
