Several Afghan doctors and health care workers from around the country said that they had witnessed the despair of women when they gave birth to daughters, and that the pressure to produce a son fueled the practice.
As with so many other pursuits, you also need kind of adaptive, strategic component that directs and fuels the practice — the gritty guy working in a lab of his own making, like [Seinfeld] does, ruthlessly refining the craft..
The oxidiser tanks were located below the fuel tanks, following the practice of putting the more dense propellent at bottom in order to lower the centre of gravity and make the rocket easier to control.
Opponents say the industry contaminates groundwater and adds to greenhouse gas pollution from burning fossil fuels, leading to the practice being banned in some places, including France.
When fuel prices are rising, the practice can be beneficial.
Although child marriage is prohibited under international and Sierra Leonean law, an array of forces, including patriarchal customary practices, poverty, socio-economic factors, sexual abuse, and religious beliefs, fuels the perpetuation of the practice.
As well as agricultural exports, they also exported flagstones from the island and imported peat to burn as fuel; they were dismissive of the practice in some of the Orkney Islands of using cow dung as fuel, referring to the northern island of Sanday as "the little island where the coos shit fire".
If such energy savings were redirected to the fabrication of a dynamic ATP-consuming cytoskeleton in the host cell, they could (in principle, if not in practice) fuel the de novo synthesis and self-assembly of 800 microns of actin filaments every second.
