They are a symbol of national values, a way of conferring status on the good, and part of the glue of the nation itself, which might be why Scots, with only 9% of the UK's population, get 13% of the honours.
An hour and a half in line has a funny way of conferring upon anything an aura of significance – and an expectation that, if it can't be fulfilled by what you've waited for, it is by the very act of having waited.
The ability to cross-package the prototypic AAV2 vector genome into different capsids is a powerful way of conferring novel tropism and biology, with evolving capsid engineering technologies and directed evolution approaches further enhancing the utility and flexibility of these vectors.
If so, this would suggest that the addition of a chargeable ester group on the aromatic ring may be a way of conferring selectivity to these compounds.
The results suggest that young people's identification with Western influences may increase their risk for tobacco use, while their maintenance of traditional Indian ways of living confers some protection.
Use of the XA21 receptor similar to the Xoo-rice system in Xcv - tomato/pepper could be one of the ways to confer resistance to xanthomonads due to presence of a similar AX21 peptide and a functional rax system in Xcv.
In the context of natural cytokine:receptor complex, sequence divergence and the co-folding mechanism at interface V would provide a way to confer specie-specific activity of IL-3 or member-specific function in the IL-3, GM-CSF, IL-5 family.
Instead, Mr. Smith said, gay leaders are emphasizing that marriage is also a legal matter between two people and the state, and that civil unions are a way to confer rights on the domestic partners of gays.
Dunn's works, which combines imagery of astronauts and other civil rights activists as a way to confer superhero status onto black Americans, is grouped in the show's observational aesthetics art section.
Journalists vied to get invited onto "Meet" as a way to confer A-list status.
