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The fate of nerve cells is dependent largely on whether they succeed, directly or indirectly (through other neurons), in connecting with peripheral organs.
In the oft-repeated words of Clinton strategist James Carville, the key issue of the day was "the economy, stupid!" Bush, the first vice president since Martin Van Buren in 1836 to succeed directly to the presidency via an election rather than the death of the incumbent, lost to Clinton by a popular vote of 37 percent to Clinton's 43 percent; Perot garnered an impressive 19 percent of the vote.
It is the first time this typing method succeeded directly on patient samples.
Juvenal pelage is succeeded either directly by adult pelage or by the subadult pelage, which in some species is not markedly distinct from that of the adult.
Some Syrian rebel leaders have said the force the United States is training risks sowing divisions among opposition forces and cannot succeed without directly targeting Syrian government forces.
Nor was there any agreement on the efficacy of the device whereby Earl, in entering the primaries, was challenging the Louisiana constitution, which provides that a Governor may not succeed himself directly.
Much of the current political intrigue surrounds Julius Malema, the leader of the A.N.C. Youth League, who, at twenty-nine, is too young to succeed Zuma directly but who could eventually be part of a coalition that tries to bring him down.
Although astronomers had found extrasolar planets mainly by indirect methods, such as by detecting tiny periodic motion in the stars they orbited, in 2008 two groups of astronomers succeeded in directly imaging extrasolar planets.
We succeeded in directly preparing syndiotactic-rich poly NIPAAm), the syndiotacticity of which (r=70%) is the highest among those of radically-prepared poly NIPAAm s so far reported, by lowering polymerization temperature to −60 °C in the presence of a two-fold amount of HMPA.
Iain Duncan Smith's reappointment as work and pensions secretary is surprising, not least because there is so little hard evidence that his "behaviour change" reforms, from benefit sanctions and the benefit cap to the work programme, have succeeded in directly propelling huge numbers off the dole.
Now, Laird Close, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, and his collaborators believe they have succeeded in directly and accurately weighing a young, low-mass object for the first time.
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The phrase "succeeds directly" functions as a connector or linking phrase , establishing a relationship of immediate succession between two elements, actions, or entities. It emphasizes the absence of intervening steps or mediators in the sequence.
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