Thus, demonstration in psychology was thought to borrow its principles or starting points from physics, the higher science to which it is subordinated, with its conclusions in turn supplying principles for demonstrations in the more specialized studies of sensation and animal locomotion.
While unable to retropose autonomously, Alu elements are thought to borrow the factors that are required for their amplification from the LINE (long interspersed element) elements [ 6- 9], which encode a protein with endonuclease and reverse transcriptase activity [ 10, 11].
Still, I can imagine the writhing and groaning of his detractors, those sceptics who think, to borrow a phrase from New York magazine, the director has "become pickled in a world of his own creation".
They think, to borrow one of Jesus's favourite metaphors, that they're living in the darkness and just waiting for the light.
"And the ones who got these colonies going, the first generation or the migrants, did think, to borrow a phrase from The Blues Brothers, that they were on a mission from God.
The Arabs are thought to have borrowed the name from Indians with whom they traded.
Mayan, some Mixe-Zoquean languages, Xinkan, and varieties of Nahua all share VOS word order, thought to be borrowed (due to language contact) among them, a relatively rare word order among the world's languages.
Not a single note of instrumental music from the Shakespeare plays has been preserved, with the possible exception of the witches' dances from Macbeth, which are thought to have been borrowed from a contemporary masque.
That didn't begin to change until the early 15th century, when the word "boy" – thought to have been borrowed into English from French around a century earlier as another name for a slave, or a man of lowly birth – began to be used more generally for any young man.
All true, but let's think different, to borrow the Apple marketing slogan of years back.
Now you may think -- to borrow the title of a book by Erasmus I read long ago -- that this is all "Praise of Folly".
