By a surprisingly lopsided 7-to-2 margin, the court voted to pull back from its own recent rulings, and those of lower federal courts, that had significantly narrowed the ability of environmental groups to pursue polluters in court.
In the Senate the Democrats, who now command a smaller majority in the chamber, tried to force changes to parliamentary rules that would narrow the ability of a senator to mount a vote-delaying filibuster.
The spokesman, Andrew Arulanandam, said the N.R.A. feared that an altered Supreme Court could reverse a pair of landmark 5-to-4 decisions that affirmed an individual's right to bear arms and narrowed the ability of states and cities to enact gun control laws.
The most significant change came in June, when Sessions, who oversaw immigration courts and could overrule judges' rulings, issued a decision that effectively narrowed the ability of people to gain asylum.
In December an appeals court suspended a new Environmental Protection Agency directive narrowing the government's ability to file such suits.
Although the margin of safety between effective and potentially toxic doses of oxygen is relatively narrow, the ability to carefully control its dose, meticulous adherence to currently accepted therapeutic protocols, and individually tailored treatment regimens make it a cost-effective safe drug.
Lanny A. Breuer, the assistant attorney general and head of the criminal division, told senators Tuesday that the Supreme Court's ruling this year in a case involving Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former chief executive of Enron, significantly narrowed the government's ability to bring cases against officials involved in secret, self-dealing activities.
The third method is the best, but as n becomes larger, the ability to narrow the genome position down becomes weaker, and so the load of the post process to find n-mismatch sequences increases.
The ability to narrow the QTL region and increase the statistical support for the QTL demonstrates the advantage of QTL mapping using more than one population that have close and/or historic genetic links.
The largest contig is 19,739 ESTs with a 1283 bases consensus sequence; with the narrow depth, the ability to bury all but 342 of ESTs greatly speeds up assembly and display.
