Replacing or improving existing more invasive or less accurate techniques to deliver the same therapeutic result.
But the mycobacterium tuberculosis develops resistance to the existing antibiotics more or less because of the excessive abuse of antibiotics, so it is still essential for the prevention and control of tuberculosis.
Libeskind said that his evolution was triggered by a simple realization: he went from fighting to collaborating because he realized that he needed to work within the existing system — that is, the more-or-less democratic process of rebuilding the site.
According to Horkheimer, the traditional approaches are content to describe existing social institutions more or less as they are, and their analyses thus have the indirect effect of legitimating repressive and unjust social practices as natural or objective.
Yet, existing research has more or less neglected the impact of the declining fertility rate on marriage stability.
However, we did not try to enroll GPs that were representative of GPs in the Netherlands, but that offered the existing spectrum of more or less optimal depression care.
Evolution is the story of shifting genes: New ones arise, old ones pass away, existing ones become more or less widespread in response to the pressures of life.
Instead of attempting to measure absolute levels of restrictiveness, they assessed whether a given policy change made the existing policy framework more or less restrictive.
In the plan, Mr. Romney says that "before President Obama exploded the size of the federal government, our existing tax rates were more or less adequate to pay for the government we needed".
On the sixth floor, the top, a wide skylight provides an alarming upward perspective of Cesar Pelli's fifty-two-story residential tower, erected in 1984 on museum land to one side of the existing museum and now more or less in its center.
