A great short story has to function like a black hole, demanding our entire attention, drawing all available light into itself, but Doctorow's energies are too diffuse and variegated to achieve that effect often.
Furthermore, the forelimbs of Caudipteryx were too short to have functioned as wings, suggesting that complex feathers originally evolved in nonflying animals for purposes other than flight.
In short, Wi-Fi has to function as transparently as a mobile phone.At present, it does not.
About an hour later and eight hundred miles away, President Obama delivered a short and sober speech designed to function as an anti-inflammatory.
Local jurisdictions argue they do not have the resources to make up all of the remaining costs, leaving the local criminal justice system well short of the money needed to function effectively.
Both short and long ncRNAs appear to function by guiding the recruitment HDACs, HMTs and DNMTs, and other proteins involved in the epigenetic regulation of transcription, to homology-containing loci on gene promoters and in the genome.
The new organs were able to function for a short time when transplanted into rats.
Due to its irreversible nature, these devices are designed to function for a short period and be disposed afterwards.
Had this occurred, global trade would have ceased to function within a very short period of time".
It is apparent that no human decision-making system can be devised to function in such a short time span.
Though the Fed report and the FHFA program focused on already-foreclosed properties -- as opposed to short sales, which function as an alternative to foreclosure -- the same argument applies to both, said Newbery of the American Homeowner Preservation.
