Sentence examples for germinate from inspiring English sources

The council said that 92% of the votes were cast for Jean-Bertrand Aristide, whose Lavalas Family party was widely believed to be responsible for intimidation and violence before the election.But perhaps the biggest embarrassment is to the various foreign countries and agencies who have attempted to sow a seed of democracy in Haiti, which seems to have failed to germinate.

But foresters have learned that forests need fires to clear out the brush and even to get seeds to germinate.

Most notably, as Jon Keeley, an ecologist at America's Geological Survey, pointed out to the meeting, the seeds of between 100 and 150 species of Californian wild flower germinate in response to smoke.

For reasons that are not yet entirely clear, it looks as though exposing seeds to carbon nanotubes before they germinate makes the seedlings that subsequently sprout grow faster and larger.A carbon nanotube is, as its name suggests, a tiny cylinder of carbon atoms.

As they report in ACS Nano, the seeds exposed to the nanotubes started to germinate within three days.

THE best ideas in business often germinate in a pub.

Seeds intended for foodstuffs could spill, germinate and grow, allowing their genes to enter the ecosystem unintentionally.

The success of these "fire followers" depends on their seeds being retained dormant in the soil for decades, ready to germinate with the heat shock of a passing wildfire, aided by chemicals precipitating from the subsequent smoke.

As a control, they repeated the process without the faeces.The fungus germinated on all the control slides.

Now his aides are weaving pre-emption into a new national security strategy to be presented in the autumn.In fact, the idea has been germinating in the president's mind for some time.

How, despite the critical bile spewed over much of his fiction, he still had germinating in him the Great American Novel that would out-Tolstoy Tolstoy and out-Dickens Dickens.