In their best-selling book, Why Nations Fail, economists James A. Robinson and Daron Acemoğlu discuss the double-edged nature of what they call critical junctures: Seismic events, which shake up the foundations of the status quo.
The resiliency of an ecosystem, and thereby, its sustainability, can be reasonably measured at junctures or events where the combination of naturally occurring regenerative forces (solar energy, water, soil, atmosphere, vegetation, and biomass) interact with the energy released into the ecosystem from disturbances.
In the '50s and '60s, Stanford became a glamorous figure, whose murder was an iconic event at the juncture of the centuries; Paul Baker's "Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White" (1989) was the first biography to examine Stanford's personal and professional life.
The hotel hosting his event stands at the juncture of two highways, and he spoke in a ballroom adorned with video screens of American flags.
It is impossible at this juncture to know what type of event triggered the deletions we have discovered in pAtC58, but given the nature of the deletions they may be phage-mediated.
It is impossible at this juncture to predict the outcome.
Her crisp mission statement suggested that I was witnessing the juncture in the creative process where current events find their expression in brick or chintz.
Rather, we must understand the windows of opportunity provided by "events, dear boy" as critical junctures when our long-term work creating constituencies for change, transforming attitudes and norms, and so on can suddenly come to fruition.
Then there was an odd juncture in his day when, instead of going to the event, the event came to Mr. Santorum.
1 4 Medication error is more prevalent at these junctures and may result in harm: a type of adverse drug event (ADE).
