Here we advance these notions by proposing a scenario in which sex evolved to cope with the pervasive genotoxicity produced by ROS and UV in the harsh conditions that accompanied incipient O2 emergence on the surface of the Earth.
For example, a pleasure craft with incipient slime on it may be considered fouled by the owner who may insist on cleaning, but it may not impact the overall performance of that particular vessel.
She's been subjected "to a regime of hygiene and beautification" that hasn't overlooked "even the incipient down on her pubis".
After this defeat, there was much local muttering that "politics" was the culprit and that Washington might have been punished because of the unpopularity abroad of the incipient war on Iraq.
While the rest of my trees have little more than incipient buds on skeletal branches, the filberts are covered with yellow drooping catkins of male flowers, as if they'd been lavishly decorated for spring.
Supachai Panitchpakdi, the director general of the World Trade Organization, released a statement Thursday afternoon saying he welcomed the incipient agreement on agriculture, which he said gives momentum to the talks.
Sob! Garry, who knows his audience as he knows every incipient wrinkle on his forehead, is quickly unencumbered of Miss Stillington, this morning's problem, but a host of other torments are soon assailing him.
The few visible manifestations of incipient terrorism, on the other hand, tend to be tough to parse -- a man talking on the phone in a language the average mail carrier does not speak, a man withdrawing money from an ATM, a man renting a truck.
Instead, he thinks to save businesses £350m by scotching any regulation they can, between them, think of – starting with the last government's incipient measures on equality, as well as health and safety legislation, paternity leave … you name it, if it sounds sensible, particularly if it sounds like something they might do in Scandinavia, then we can no longer afford it.
Compared with complaisant national regulators, it is more insistent that banks are strong: witness an incipient clampdown on the use of deferred tax assets (a kind of credit to offset past losses) to bolster the capital bases of banks in Europe's weaker economies.
Crosses indicate the center of the incipient disturbance on 15 (red), 16 (blue), 17 (black), 18 (green), 19 (purple), and 20 (orange) June 2008.
