Ravelled up inside that gamble is another daring hunch: that, of all Americans, Obama is uniquely qualified to braid together the two great strands of national rhetoric.
And here they are, on one street corner, the three great strands of life — Defenselessness, Cluelessness and Helplessness — and now the innocent children are on the bus, it swings out into traffic: Oh God, no seat belts!! Have mercy.
Although by the mid-1980s hadhad relinquished formal control of the two great strands in his business empire, the Anglo American Corporation and De Beers Consolidated Mines, he continued to exercise a daily influence as the grand old man of South African mining, and remained a De Beers director until 1994.
Ultimately the West rests on one great idea and one set of actions, one that stands behind and unites the six great strands of Western civilization.
An interesting question would thus be whether vesicle-level selection can result in evolution of a greater strand preference than that seen for the finite diffusion system studied here.
Sometimes, he jokes, "we squint through binoculars on the great yellow strand and see a group walking in the distance and feel crowded out… When I can't sleep, I walk around it in my imagination".
Of course I do". Bell is robust in the way he bats away the suggestion that the BBC should have picked up South Bank Show – "I think we've got a great arts strand on BBC1 called Imagine, and I think it covers many of the names that South Bank Show would otherwise cover" – but he does it with enough humour not to sound as though he's reciting management lines.
Now the water slowly picked them up again, moving them a little higher up the sand, along with some great black strands of seaweed.
The hyd 1 ein2 and fkhyd2 ein2 seedlings (Figs. 7E, F) have greater vascular strand coherence than do fk/hyd single mutants (cf. Figs. 4D G).
An average of 50 PBMC cells/time-point were analysed and the tail moment (TM) calculated, as the product of the percentage of DNA in the comet tail and the distance between head and tail distributions; higher TM values reflect greater DNA strand breakage.
