The decision to pass on retaining "Earl," a hit for NBC when it played at 9 p.m. Thursday, and still a reliable performer at 8, may be part of a networkwide trend this spring.
Or was it something tangible, some particle or fluid in the male's semen or blood that had been passed on and retained?
Nic Von Wielligh, a former South African nuclear official, explained that de Klerk believed that "as a future signatory of the NPT, South Africa had an obligation not to pass on detailed plans" — and should not retain any documents with nuclear weapons know-how.
When there is no forward pass on, they pass sideways or backwards and retain possession.
Thus the existence of an afterlife and the influence of spirits who have passed on and yet retain their earthly identities is integral to all of the plot arcs in the series.
Veterans are hanging in, and their wealth of experience is retained and passed on.
If a combined Aetna-CVS were to negotiate better drug prices, whether or not those are passed on to consumers or just retained by the company depends on things like the degree of competition in the insurance marketplace.
For thousands of years, China has retained and passed on its traditional heritage of design, art, architecture and style through its diverse range of peoples and cultures.
Then superior sets of genes will be retained and passed on, both in current planting and each time regeneration occurs in the future.
The values held by the group may be passed on to their children and thereby retained by the cultural group [ 1, 2].
We applied a series of filters (described in Additional file 3: Supplementary methods) to the sites identified in the 17 HC monkeys to reduce the set of variants passed on to Stage 2. Importantly, to retain polymorphic markers that would be the most useful in genetic mapping, we filtered out variants with minor allele frequency (MAF) < 25%% in the set of 17 HC monkeys.
