The ethical egoist might reply that, if predominant egoism is true, ethical egoism may require less deviation from our ordinary actions than any standard moral theory.
Isolated bacterial species were classified as an aetiological pathogen if predominant growth of a typical respiratory tract pathogen was observed.
We hypothesized that if predominant expression of the TGFBR1*6A allele exists in the 6A/9A heterozygous individual, global functional reduction of the pathway would be evident and would increase the risk for CRC.
Commensal oropharyngeal flora included (a combination of) the following bacteria: viridans streptococci, coagulase-negative staphylococci, Haemophilus spp. (excluding H. influenzae if not predominant), Moraxella spp. (if not predominant), Corynebacterium spp., Neisseria spp., Peptostreptococcus spp., Stomatococcus spp., and Prevotella spp. [ 28].
Children are significantly less likely to be driven to school than to walk unescorted if they are older, B=−0.88, OR= 0.42, Wald χ (1)=63.55, p <.001, if the predominant language spoken at home is English, B=−1.45, OR= 0.23, Wald χ (1)=10.49, p <.001, and if their current household is within one kilometer from school, B=−2.24, OR= 0.11, Wald χ (1)=24.91, p <.001.
If the predominant feeling is tired, stiff and tight muscles, treat it with heat for 30 to 40 minutes.
It fears that if Assad goes now he might be replaced by anarchic forces in which al-Qa'ida-linked militias would be a powerful if not predominant component.
If the predominant notion of the Broadway conductor is of a fairly drab, anonymous eminence, then young, energetic conductors like Ms. Grigsby, Mr. Chase and Mr. Ellison, all in their 30's or early 40's, are adding new colors to the portrait.
If a predominant stream of 20th-century art consisted of fragments of disparate images, Aldridge has artistic fun disassembling and even seemingly exploding her hand-crafted elements across gallery floors and walls.
Its portrait of what the author called "the progress of the Russian Soviets and their two dictators" would have been found less offensive, he wrote, "if the predominant caste in the fable were not pigs".
If the predominant party of power throughout most of the twentieth century finds itself reduced to brief banalities on one of the early defining issues of the twenty first - if it has scarcely any questions to ask of the government of the day - then I say that's a party which is rendering itself redundant and irrelevant in the body politic of our country.
