"We were not engaged in the promotion of abusive tax shelters," the statement said, "and are disappointed that the I.R.S. has taken the extraordinary step of proceeding with a summons enforcement action without discussing the matter with us first".
Even the conjunction "and" (er) here is open to different interpretations, as it could refer to a two-step process of first comparing expressions and then jointly proceeding with them or to a single step of proceeding jointly with them in parallel.
The Senate Intelligence Committee took the unprecedented step of proceeding without Republicans even though previous investigations have always been bipartisan.
Table 1 provides suggested steps for proceeding with an evaluation of combined effects for an effects-based assessment.
This finding is made using the screening exposure assessment performed in Step 4. Instead of proceeding further with the Group 1 exposures the assessor should determine if the concerns from the individual chemicals in the screening exposures assessment are warranted.
The analysis presented here indicates that the initial steps of evolution proceeded in the habitats that were rich in Zn, but deficient in Fe.
The purpose of this participatory partnership was to meet at regular interval, to decide mutually on processes and procedures, and to interpret results of steps taken before proceeding to a next phase.
Therefore, in the present study, a 'first-order analysis' was utilized to ascertain the behavioral tendencies of the implants as a first step before proceeding with an analysis of implant mechanics using a three-dimensional FEA.
The initial steps of our proceeding are state of the art in environmental toxicology modeling.
All of the steps described above proceed in chloroplasts [ 13], but the process of thiamine conversion to TDP occurs in the cytosol and is catalyzed by thiamine pyrophosphokinase, encoded by the TPK genes [ 14].
Furthermore, we recently demonstrated that a normal Map9 function is required for the MT network to allow the first steps of development to proceed [ 23].
