Half of the significant genes departed from neutrality in the direction of positive selection (i.e. a relative excess of nonsynonymous divergence) (Table 4), while the other half departed from neutrality in a pattern consistent with either balancing or weak purifying selection (i.e. a relative excess of nonsynonymous polymorphism).
Within a week, Bonaparte had resupplied his ships, and on 19 June, his fleet departed for Alexandria in the direction of Crete, leaving 4,000 men at Valletta under General Claude-Henri Vaubois to ensure French control of the islands.
Building nuclear power plants would depart from the direction of the previous government of Yoshihiko Noda, who had pledged to phase out nuclear power by 2040.
And all attempts to depart from the nation-state in the direction of the U.N. and a United States of Europe have so far been complete disasters.
The ability to change direction, a key element of locomotion, requires the generation of instantaneous "pushing" surfaces, from which the animal can obtain the necessary force to depart in the new direction.
This means that it has to have a "pushing" surface in water from which to depart in the new direction.
— in the direction of our departing president in his latest politically minded play, "A Light Lunch," which opened on Friday night at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa.
In the end, though, perhaps it was Ashley Orr who paid Dr. Pruden the highest compliment in the lexicon of 17-year-olds when he nodded in the direction of the departing physician and said simply, "He's cool".
But Boll being Boll, he could not quite resist departing the scene without sending one last barb in the direction of his critics.
