I felt he should have exerted some leadership, and he never did".
The exhortation by the cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was significant because he had exerted some influence on past elections.
Children accepted them because they were the best reading available; and Anatole France's tribute in Le Petit Pierre (1918) shows that they must have exerted some charm.
Ironically, getting rid of DeLay, who did have interests to protect – like his subsidized orphan villages – may have had the unintended consequence of removing the one person who could have exerted some control over the aliens.
From an evolutionary point of view, the asymmetrical behaviour of supercoiled DNA of opposite signs may have exerted some physical constraints and contributed to orient early choices for DNA topology in the nascent DNA world.
Interestingly, EDV is lower in the hESC-EC group (n = 8) compared to PBS group (n = 6) (P = 0.03), indicating that hESC-EC transplantation may have exerted some benefit on cardiac diastolic function.
We cannot exclude the possibility that cariporide may have exerted some effects on mitochondrial NHE and [Ca2+]m in the present study.
These observations indicate that though the amino acid usage patterns in Prochlorococcus are primarily guided by their directional mutational bias, other selection pressures must also have exerted some significant influence.
