It gradually obscured "the sheer brute fact that the results of human activity cannot be anticipated," as the economist Frank Knight wrote in 1921.
Once hearings became adversarial (resembling "junior varsity criminal trials," as one court decision put it), the system's original mission was gradually obscured.
What they wrote — Chinese folktales, poems, names — was less important than the fact that the ink-brushed characters gradually obscured his features.
Orpheus by Don Paterson 80pp, Faber, £12.99 Masterworks, those rare pieces of writing held in practically universal regard, regularly develop a thin coating of dust derived from precisely that regard: considered, praised and appraised, they seem gradually obscured by all that handling.
We recorded a nocturnal generalized tonic clonic seizure on video-EEG in patient A.III.17, which started with a 1 s burst of polyspikes on EEG, followed by generalized slow sharp waves admixed with spikes, which became gradually obscured by muscle artefacts.
A comparison of rainbow trout genes with Tc1-like transposon from plaice confirm the conservation of functionally important domains in distantly related proteins, which is gradually obscured during the course of neutral evolution (Ks/Ka ratios in the younger Glan and older Barb genes are 4.85 ± 0.31 and 3.35 ± 0.04 respectively).
But there used to be other slogans, ones that Moyal's vision of a Greater Israel have obscured and gradually destroyed.
The high-order structures of both the paternal and maternal genomes in zygotes and two-cell embryos are obscure but are gradually re-established through development.
Typically of scriptwriter James Toback, however, the gambler (incisively played by James Caan) is beset by an obscure existential angst that gradually takes shape as a drive to self-destruction.
The old practice of hiding new discoveries in private jargon, obscure language, or even anagrams gradually gave way to the ideal of universal comprehensibility.
And so, once obscure Russian names are becoming gradually more familiar to those who enjoy seeking out interesting additions to the style world.
