The main reason for making a deal with Mr. Assad right now — even one where he is initially offered more carrots than sticks — is precisely that a Western-led process that steadily undermines his ability and desire to use violence would stabilize a quickly deteriorating regional situation, gradually opening up Syria's political system and reducing repression over time.
It is precisely this process that provides the large amount of energy available during nuclear fission, for example, in the spontaneous fission of the uranium-235 isotope.
"Having a trial," said Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., a lawyer for the plaintiffs in the Proposition 8 case, "is precisely the process that has been used time and time again throughout American history to decide landmark civil rights cases".
That is precisely the process we engaged in today, at this inaugural Innovation Forum, with the participation of so many in this room.
Rumination is a precisely timed process that occupies a large part of a sheep's day.
"We cannot say precisely how long that process will take, because it often involves a back-and-forth process with the state.
Although it is well established that EBV can activate resting B-cells into proliferating blasts, the question how precisely this process is induced is still open.
The stochastic version of this model enables us to more precisely simulate processes that include several steps and to investigate the efficacy of different regimes of treatment and switching drugs, e.g. the effectiveness of switching a patient from drug 1 to drug 2 after a fixed number of days of treatment with drug 1 rather than switching at the same rate per day.
This argument began last winter, in the Berlin loft where they brainstorm at the same long table they use for dinner parties, making it hard to know precisely when marital banter meets that process.
We call that process "innovation", and, precisely because it is innovation, it is inherently uncertain.
