And if the military elite is shocked to find that this administration considers eliminating the inheritance tax more important than providing new weapons systems, that it is more concerned with the security of estates than the security of the state -- well, that's what you get when you trust in winks and nudges instead of checking the numbers.
Woese [ 7] argued that vertical inheritance would become more important when cell design became more complex and a more integrated cellular organization emerged.
Rescuing an empire in crisis from destruction was more important than preserving the rituals of imperial inheritance.
In French he found it easier to write, he said, "without style" — that is, free from the influence of Joyce and, more important, from his own vast English lexicon, deep lyrical inheritance, and Irish penchant for rhetoric.
At stake for Mr. de Bourbon is a possible inheritance and official recognition long denied, but more important, perhaps, reassurance that he and his extended family have not built their carefully cultivated identities on an elaborate lie.
But more important for the concept of heredity is cellular transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.
It also suggested the gut microbiota is inherited to a significant extent from the mothers, and that "inheritance" of the gut microbiota may be more important for microbial community structure and function than the actual genetic context of the host.
Family inheritance means that inequalities within a generation remain more important than inequalities between generations; in fact, the generational decline in fortunes only serves to make class more important than ever.
The institution of marriage, shorn of its utility for the inheritance of property and the assurance of legitimate children, now seems more important for the ratification it bestows on our relationships, for its sacralization of love.
No other univalent chromosome had an effect on fertility, despite the extreme bias towards inheritance of some chromosomes, suggesting that some chromosomes or chromosomal loci may be more important for somatic viability but not fertility and vice versa.
