Sentences with phrase «by the discovery of»

The Kuwait ban was first imposed in February, triggered by the discovery of a murdered Filipina maid whose body had been left in a freezer for a month by her Lebanese employer.

Homicides there are up 400 % so far this year, underscored by the discovery of 14 bodies in a mass grave in June.

After the 2008 troubles, plutocrats slumming for socks and underwear were betrayed by the discovery of Missoni at Target, or Jimmy Choo at H&M.

They produced antiseptic, ready - to - use surgical dressings — a newly important and growing market sparked by the discovery of the importance of keeping wounds sterile.

This is resolved by the discovery of two kinds of fluency, macrocosmic (transition) and microcosmic (concrescence).

Sagan's second alternative, the oscillating universe model has been discredited by a lack of sufficient matter to cause a contraction.1 It was further discredited by the discovery of dark energy, which shows that the universe is actually expanding at an ever increasing rate.2 So, Sagan's first alternative is the one that turned out to be true.

The only way in which we can overcome our impotence and save our civilization is by the discovery of a sufficient faith.

She's excited by the discoveries of new mind - stretching truths.

Some might argue not, on the grounds that metaphysics speaks about such general features of reality - of being as being - that it can not be affected by discoveries of particular contingent facts about the world.

Lewontin thus saw creationism as falsified not so much by any discoveries of modern science as by universal human experience, a thesis that does little to explain either why so absurd a notion has attracted so many adherents or why we should expect it to lose ground in the near future.

He amazed the medical establishment in Paris by his demonstrations of dissection with a dexterity second to none, by his discoveries of various glands, and by his findings regarding the functioning of muscles and the brain.

You or will not end up exactly where we belong simply by discovery of a loophole.

And the whole foundation of the Faith movement, of course, is an attempt to integrate modern rationality, not least as inspired by the discoveries of modern science, with the timeless truths of the Faith.

Another door might be opened by the discovery of phenomena that do not fit neatly into the ordinary scientific scheme and can more easily be understood in terms of process concepts.

I am both thrilled and terrified by the discovery of the site..

During a recent visit, I was compelled to order several cocktails, simply because I was intrigued by the discovery of world - class ingredients (including even the secondary and tertiary ingredients).

This supposition has been authenticated by the discovery of an English manufacturer who has been producing winks, as the disks are called, for over a hundred years.

That attack, however, may have been prompted less by fears of a metal shortage than by the discovery of several politically embarrassing znachki, including a dog - club pin that resembled a Soviet military decoration.

Some of the formula recalls in the last few years have been triggered by the discovery of high levels of phytoestrogen hormones, high levels of aluminum and lead, bacterial contamination, unsanitary production linked to gastrointestinal illness, salmonella, and glass particles mixed in with the powder Researchers in the Netherlands found dangerous bacteria, which can cause meningitis and sepsis, in 52.5 percent of the formula samples they cultured from 35 countries.

Prompted by the discovery of an old tweet sent by Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn, we ask if belief in homeopathy says a lot more about a politician than simply suggesting they may be a tad eccentric.

Concern about the growing support for the SNP's proposals for an independent Scottish state — boosted by the discovery of North Sea oil in 1970 — led Harold Wilson's government to set in motion the devolution referendum, which took place, and failed, in 1979.

Found and Lost Galvanized by the discovery of Malin 1, astronomers pored over the previous decades» photographic plates for hints of unnoticed, low - surface - brightness galaxies.

Optimism for an unseen Neptune - like planet in our solar system may be dimmed by the discovery of a new batch of distant worlds.

«These beliefs were boosted by observations that exposure to ultraviolet light and sunshine could heal some skin infections and rickets, and by the discovery of vitamin D,» she said.

Hall was excited by this discovery of a potential biomarker for placebo responses, especially because it suggests there may be many more.

Treatment plans are shaken by the discovery of swine flu that is resistant to the antiviral drug Tamiflu and the realisation that the H1N1 vaccine is growing only half as fast as the ordinary flu vaccine.

«Technology is often driven by the discovery of new materials, but the process of discovering these materials has always been rather haphazard,» Tropsha said.

But after having some of their preconceptions shattered by the discovery of Jupiter - size planets orbiting their stars in less than two days, planet hunters are no longer so confident of the others.

Over the last decade, marine researchers have been delighted by discoveries of deep - water coral gardens — and appalled by damage from trawlers, which are moving into deeper waters (ScienceNOW, 26 February 2002).

Sleep - wake cycles and our understanding of narcolepsy have been advanced by the discovery of orphan receptors, as well as their associated ligand peptide hormones and the genes that code for them.

ALMOST two years ago, the astronomical world was set alight by the discovery of dim, point - like objects called MACHOs in the invisible halo of dark matter that surrounds our Galaxy (This Week, 25 September 1993).

In every branch of science, Maxwell declared, «the labor of careful measurement has been rewarded by the discovery of new fields of research and by the development of new scientific ideas.»

The study was prompted by the discovery of the world's earliest tin bronze artefacts four years ago in Serbia and the ongoing debate into what significance colour played in the advancement of metal - making technologies.

Stimulated by the discovery of this flea, Poinar says that he and his wife will try to find more samples of Atopopsyllus cionus in the future.

The working group review was triggered last year by the discovery of fungal contamination in two vials from a pharmacy sterile production unit.

This social and technological revolution was triggered by the discoveries of two scientists.

On the basis of dubious experiments, Lysenko postulated that plants could pass environmentally - acquired traits to their offspring, a theory discredited by modern science, not least by the discovery of DNA's structure in 1953.

The microscopic critters need plenty of sunlight to thrive, so scientists were stunned by the discovery of a sprawling bloom below the normally sun - blocking Arctic ice in July 2011 (SN: 7/28/12, p. 17).

Planetary scientists long skeptical offinding extraterrestrial life are intrigued by the discovery of deepmicrobes.

In recent years, the study of human biology has been shaken up by discoveries of how the bacteria that live in the gut, the so - called microbiome, affect metabolism, the immune system, and disease progression.

This is the prospect raised by the discovery of gene variants that seem to predict whether an individual will produce enough antibodies in response to a vaccine to protect them against disease.

Inspired by the discovery of more than 1000 eriophyoid mite species in China so far, Dr. Ji Wei Li and his team collected mites from four different areas across the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China.

Dr. Jiangshan Yu at the University of Luxembourg, Professor Mark Ryan at the University of Birmingham and Professor Cas Cremers at the University of Oxford, were motivated by the discovery of mass software vulnerabilities, such as the Heartbleed bug, that make the majority of devices vulnerable to compromise.

But the past decade or two of research, which is marked by the discovery of thousands of specimens of early birds and flying dinosaurs, also shows that feathers were an early evolutionary innovation — even if they probably arose for reasons unrelated to powered flight, such as insulation or sexual display.

But it's also a benchmark of sorts, a measure of the sheer strangeness of reality as revealed by the discoveries of modern physics, discoveries that Greene chronicles with brilliant clarity.

But in the 1980s the subject was revolutionised by the discovery of the «Jones polynomial» by Vaughan Jones, a New Zealand mathematician.

A century ago the educated world was shaken by the discoveries of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, and the evidence they presented for the evolution of life on this planet.

The researchers point out that the previously known upper magma chamber was the immediate source of three cataclysmic eruptions of the Yellowstone caldera 2 million, 1.2 million and 640,000 years ago, and that isn't changed by discovery of the underlying magma reservoir that supplies the magma chamber.

This profound search was thrown into the limelight recently by the discovery of seven small alien worlds orbiting the tiny, red dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1.

Homo erectus: has not been displaced by the discovery of ER 1470.