One of the criticisms often levelled at political songs written by pop stars in the 1980s was that these tracks tended to be ill-focused polemics or even offensive flights of fancy; that they were little more than passing whims of the ill-informed and loosely engaged.
I've been loosely engaged in Dan's campaign, including co-hosting a fundraiser (citizen's style, as he got ready to qualify for public financing) for him this past spring for more than 50 supporters so that we could hear his perspective on leadership, the economy and taxes, job creation and the future of the state.
The five top ranked solutions for Model B (one from each independent docking run) were found to possess similar binding modes, in which the N-terminus adopts a disordered conformation, with a stretch of seven residues, 10TLTIIKT16, loosely engaging the hydrophobic groove of the DRS of ERK2 (Fig. 3A).
A new theory suggests that in the earliest years of life on Earth, dozens of types of loosely organized protocells engaged in an active swap meet as they exchanged and tested what are now the basic building blocks of the cell.
On Monday, two days before the ceremony, the Russian Ministry of Justice put Zimin's Dynasty Foundation on its list of "foreign agents," or nongovernmental organizations that receive foreign funding and are engaged in loosely defined "political activity".
Federal elected officials spend only a fraction of their time engaged in what might loosely be called the business of governing — even when they belong to the party that believes in government.
Collective behaviour, the kinds of activities engaged in by sizable but loosely organized groups of people.
Before the peace treaty, gang members were basically loosely-organized individuals who sporadically clashed and engaged in urban warfare with nearby enemies, however, the treaty encouraged dialogue, collective decision-making, and unified goals.
In other countries, CAM is loosely assigned to anyone who wishes to be engaged in the field, with CAM systems largely based on voluntary regulatory arrangements to which not all practitioners are legally bound.
However, the notion of 'community' has often been too loosely applied with the risk that those eventually engaged for study purposes are not true representatives of the research participants and their communities.
If satisfied, the surgeon placed the final implant loosely on the screw to confirm correct rotation, and engaged it by means of a gentle hammer-stroke on an impactor.
