The Mubarak government's policy is simple: finesse — periods of tolerance followed by crackdown.
Periods of tolerance are followed by waves of repression.
In reality, the lessons of history have only bred more of the same -- hatred for hatred, hatred for suffering, some brand of revenge, and fierce protests which bring about all too brief periods of tolerance.
The crackdown dealt a devastating blow to an opposition movement that had raised its profile in the last year, calling for democratic reforms to the one-party state while enjoying a rare period of official tolerance.
The determined period of starvation tolerance was 4 weeks in the absence of nitrite, 5 weeks in the absence of ammonium, as well as 7 weeks for the absence of these two substrates at 36°C, pH 7 8 and anaerobic conditions.
"It is a time that really is kind of reminiscent of the early period of zero tolerance [school discipline policies]," said Russell Skiba, director of Indiana University's Equity Project, an educational research institution.
During the two-hour period of SBT, tolerance was continuously evaluated by the physician in charge.
Traditional society never had any reason to marry gays, even in periods of relative tolerance, because it never had any need for homosexual sex.
Repeated endotoxin exposures induce periods of endotoxin tolerance, characterized by diminished proinflammatory responses to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and modulated production of proinflammatory cytokines.
