Modernization, too often confused with Westernization, has swollen the cities, shaken traditional values and power structures and encouraged new ideas, from Marxism to democracy to Islamic fundamentalism.
For all his modernity, however, Ballard was formed by the fashions of a previous age; he could never quite shake the values instilled in him by Biggles and Boy's Own.
Even so, when characters start dying — dropping off the mountain, or laying down in the snow to freeze — the film has trouble investing their deaths with much emotional weight, and seems unable to shake the values of a Hollywood disaster movie.
Since one atmosphere of pure N2O gas was supplied in the headspace, and the bottles were vigorously shaken, the theoretical value of N2O in the aqueous phase was 905 mg L−1 and therefore non-rate-limiting.
0.1-g sample of the prepared AC was weighed into 250-mL conical flasks containing 30 mL of de-ionized water at the desired pH values and shaken for 24 h at 30 °C.
Those recent returns have not shaken Mr. Rodriguez's strict value discipline.
50.0 mg of SF was conditioned with 50.0 mL of water sample spiked with 1.0 and 2.0 mg L−1 of Cd II) after adjusting the pH samples to the optimum pH value and shaken for 30 min.
Briefly, the mixture of n-octanol and phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) with different pH value was shaken for 12 h to mutually saturate on a mechanical shaker, and then the n-octanol and aqueous phases were separated.
With her equine good looks and a well-defined jaw that is still partly locked, Ms. Sullivan is also absolutely credible as a born patrician who never entirely shook off the values she ran away from.
Costs drop in American cities thanks to a battered buck Shifts in currency values shook up the rankings this year.
