Sentences with phrase «only a marker of»

Still, time - limited renewable marriages won't necessarily give them what they want unless they know what they hope to achieve in their marriage beside longevity — our only marker of success.

I'm not sure why we consider longevity to be the only marker of a successful marriage or lifelong love to be the best kind of love.

Although pacifier use ultimately may be determined to be only a marker of women at risk for shortened breastfeeding duration, education and support of these women and their efforts to breastfeed is vital.

However, loss of bloat and temporary weight loss are not the only markers of a successful detox as there are plenty of ways to reduce water retention and promote weight loss that are not necessarily healthy.

In fact, the only markers of the passage of time in the film come through the makeup and hair styles on the actors.

A well - designed text is not only a marker of professionalism, it influences the way that your readers enjoy the book.

Longevity isn't the only marker of health of course.

Not exact matches

There is no one - size - fits - all solution, as the markers of interaction, participation and engagement will be different for each company, but you are limited only by your creativity.

You can only tell movement has happened by looking at the marker of its position a year or a decade or a century ago.

Let me reiterate that both Banerjea and Upadhyaya were able to encounter only one facet of the historical Jesus because they ignored the markers of what constituted concrete human identity.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

His second was disrupted by a five - man pass rush and good coverage; on third - and - 7, linebacker Eric Striker blitzed untouched from Rees» blindside, and with his only option (T.J. Jones dragging underneath) only semi-open and on the wrong side of the first - down marker, Rees held the ball too long, got hit as he was throwing, and got picked off.

Senna edged out Prost in the F1 Drivers» Championship, but even more significant was the margin of victory the MP4 / 4 delivered over its competitors, often lapping not only the back markers but the entire field.

When Bellerin first came into the side he not only defended well but was always so dangerous going forward.His pace and ability to go outside his marker gave us an attacking outlet that allowed us to play without a recognised right sided attacker which coincided with Walcott getting less and less game time.We all thought this boy was going to turn into someone very special and so obviously did the management who apparently renewed his contract on a reputed # 100k per week.What have we seen since then?A player that seems as indecisive and under coached as the rest of the defenders at the club.A player that has rarely delivered a performance that reflected his initial early form.A player whose body language seems to display his displeasure at being at our club when Barcelona reputedly offered # 40m for him in the close season.

That is to say, it is unique in the technique he employs to not only get Robert Pires» drilled diagonal pass under control but to manipulate the power and pace of it with an outrageous flick and swivel around his marker.

Three of his 11 goals this season have been headers, but only one has been via an aerial duel at a set - piece, with Selke often drifting away from his marker to get on the end of crosses in open play.

Five years of cats, kittens, puppies, dogs, lambs (well, that was only one time), not to mention markers, paint, and gosh, that awful glitter glue (that she loves sooooo much and uses sooooo creatively that I just can't bear to ban it)!

My daughter placed it in the bathroom next to the potty chair but so far the only thing my grand daughter found of interest was the red marker that she used to create art work on her arm!

My next marker was 27 weeks; only because for some reason I will never understand an unbelievable amount of women I know in the last few years have had babies that have survived and thrived when born during this week.

«But modern America is a place of extremes, and what you eat for dinner has become the definitive marker of social status; as the distance between rich and poor continues to grow, the freshest, most nutritious foods have become luxury goods that only some can afford.»

The Atlanta - based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal agency that collects data on a range of other health markers, only started tracking breastfeeding statistics in 1994.

You're only going to need a handful of items to do this craft: a cardboard box, of course; a glue gun, a craft knife, a ruler, a pencil and a marker, twine, twigs, and fabric for the sail.

It's only during back to school season that you can find the really amazing bonus packs stuffed with extra colors and pretty much enough Sharpie markers to last anyone a solid year of hard core DIYing.

In the latest attempt, three crack teams of investigators pooled genomic data from 8,000 schizophrenics of European ancestry but could lay claim to only a handful of weak genetic risk markers.

Attempts to analyse fetal DNA in the mother's blood for markers of the male - only Y chromosome can give inaccurate results if not enough DNA is available.

Published in the peer - reviewed journal Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, the study, «Sperm RNA elements as markers of health,» from the lab of Stephen A. Krawetz, Ph.D., the Charlotte B. Failing Professor of Fetal Therapy and Diagnosis in the Wayne State Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, indicates that RNA found in male sperm not only shows promise as a determinant in successful live birth, it may also tell us more about the health of a child as it matures.

The only signs of the pipe are a gap in the trees that stretches for kilometers, a tiny yellow marker that says «Warning: Carbon Dioxide Pipeline,» and a little shack that houses the pumps that keep the CO2 moving underground and pressurized.

In a meta - analysis of studies that linked genetic markers to cultural heritage in North and Central America, Iceland, Australia, Africa and New Guinea, they found that only Y - chromosome DNA reflected the cultural origins of the local language.

«The idea is to mobilize an immune response that will target the tumor very broadly, hitting a variety of markers including some that would be found only on that particular tumor,» Tanyi said.

Cesium - 134, with a half - life of only two years, is an unequivocal marker of Fukushima ocean contamination, Smith said.

They compared the DNA of family members, looking for distinctive markers shared only among the ones who had trouble with language.

Intertidal zones that once looked like pools of purple held only burrows in the bedrock — telltale markers that purple sea urchins were once there.

In addition to differences in regenerative capacity, the investigators also found an indicator of tissue fibrosis or «scarring,» profibrotic marker PAI - 1, was markedly elevated only after transmural injury.

And a single marker doesn't carry much information about ancestry; only a combination of markers does.

At this time, it is only possible to verify the decision retrospectively with cell surface markers,» explains Dr. Carsten Marr, head of the Quantitative Single Cell Dynamics Research Group at the Helmholtz Zentrum München's Institute of Computational Biology (ICB).

Before the TAGC study, data was available for a limited number of DNA markers (only approximately one in every 3000 letters of DNA) that are mostly common in Europeans.

«Only a subset produces IL - 17A upon skin injury, although the surface markers on these cells seem identical to those of other DETCs,» MacLeod said.

Years of formal education was the only marker tracked among the study participants.

«If the usefulness of these macrophage markers is established, it will be possible to evaluate kidney stone risk not only through inorganic but also some organic substances.

With the advent of more and more sophisticated ways to measure genetic variation and relatedness using molecular markers, such as allozyme polymorphisms and DNA - based markers, not only can individuals be tracked as to their parentage, but changes in allele patterns over time and thus the effects of evolution on populations can be «seen» in the genetic information.

«In the space of just five years, reasonably affordable studies using DNA sequencing have advanced from using only a handful of genetic markers to more than 2,000 — an unbelievable amount of DNA,» adds Simison.

Most of the known genetic markers for ancestry are shared by tens of millions of people, and so can provide only a general sense of geographic origin.

Heavy smoking based on cotinine, a reliable marker of nicotine in maternal sera, was reported by 20 percent of the mothers of cases, but only 14.7 % of the mothers of controls.

Previous studies in this field have predominantly focused on blood risk markers taken in the fasted state, which only tend to be, in for the minority of the time, overnight.

They seem to get exponentially bigger in relation to the capacity of the theatre, but usually only seem to be used for the lecturer's notes, chalk / whiteboard markers and a glass of water.

Gene signatures have generally been studied only as markers of poor prognoses, she says.»

The inability of the brain to adjust the size of eye movement may not only be a marker for cerebellum dysfunction, but it may also help explain the communication and social interaction deficits that many individuals with ASD experience.

However, the test is only a screen because it relies on DNA markers on chromosome 21 that vary by ancestry, and it misses about 7 % of cases in the U.S. population.

«Much to our surprise, in studying the fate of eight neuronal and synaptic markers in our subjects» prefrontal cortices, we only observed very minor neuronal and synaptic losses.

These cells also showed early markers that are specific to developing Purkinje cells, granule cells, or deep cerebellar projection neurons — all types of neurons only found in the cerebellum.