Sentences with phrase «only small fragments»

The newest generation of vaccines includes recombinant vaccines that use only small fragments of the disease agent, which are inserted into a harmless carrier virus.

Yes, the earliest manuscripts we have are after His resurrection, but there were earlier writings that were not on durable material, and writings that were destroyed by the Romans and Jewish leaders, but the surviving record captures all the necessary Truths, even though the Gospels cover only a small fragment of Jesus» activities during His time on earth.

At the outset we noted that the nineteen and a half centuries we have covered are only a small fragment of the course of Homo sapiens and even of what we call civilization; when viewed against cosmic time they constitute only a fraction of a second and embrace a small planet which is a mere speck in the vast universe.

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The master implicitly renders entrenched social fragments irrelevant — if only in his small kingdom.

Only faith derived from Christian preaching is able to deduce the certainty of God acting upon us even from those fragments, which otherwise would remain only a small part of the history of ideas, and quite a problematic part at that.&raOnly faith derived from Christian preaching is able to deduce the certainty of God acting upon us even from those fragments, which otherwise would remain only a small part of the history of ideas, and quite a problematic part at that.&raonly a small part of the history of ideas, and quite a problematic part at that.»

Secondly, let's remember that we're only seeing a small snippet in this «Coptic Fragment» without the context... The ramblings are pretty humorous.

When Plato acted it was probably in the belief that his freedom to act could only affect a small fragment of the world, narrowly circumscribed in space and time; but the man of today acts in the knowledge that the choice he makes will have its repercussions through countless centuries and upon countless human beings.

The site provides new information about the region's sauropods, which were previously known only from fragments of a tail bone, a leg bone, and a few bits of teeth — scraps so small that researchers couldn't assign the fossils to a particular species or even estimate its size.

According to the article, in smaller forest fragments, the researchers recorded only 20 % -50 % of the species expected to occur across the region.

Only the most generalist species remain in the smaller fragments, she added, such as the white - eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) or the nine - banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), which are able to adapt to disturbed environments because they do not need such large areas to find food.

But too small a bomb would cause the fragments to fly apart only slowly, allowing them to clump together under their mutual gravity.

And when a mile - wide comet fragment plummets to Earth and creates a 600 - mph tsunami, the scene was very accurate, except for only a few small details.

Only a few photos and small fragments of bones bear witness today to the original find situation.

«When we analysed the smaller fractions, which are called fluff and fragment, the plastic leakage was more than a hundred times greater than when we only counted the pellets.

To prevent this only a small voltage is applied, so the DNA fragments move slowly.

«What our results then mean is that if we keep splitting natural habitats into smaller and smaller pieces, we may not only lose a lot of species from the resultant fragments, but also change the structure and functioning of local food webs.»

Until now, the only evidence that sauropods lived in Scotland came from a small number of bone and teeth fragments.

The difficulty in measuring such a small increment in chromosome 21 DNA concentration has recently been overcome with the use of massively parallel genomic sequencing.20 This technique can identify and quantify millions of DNA fragments in biological samples in a span of days.23 Three cohort studies have shown the feasibility of using the technique to identify fetuses with trisomy 21 by analysis of maternal plasma DNA.24 25 26 The sample numbers studied were small because, typically, only a few samples could be analysed in each sequencing run.

This vintage aqua bottle is going to be used to house a sea glass collection — only the very smallest fragments.

Perhaps aiming to evoke the ruptured fabric of the small family unit on which the film focuses, but achieving only a frustratingly distancing effect, Gröning employs a self - consciously fragmented structure.

This fragment of rib bone is the only known piece of small, portable Ice Age art showing an animal from Britain and tells us about the movement of people, the animals they hunted and how these people saw the world.

As many of us have experienced with our own children, parents sometimes only receive a small, fragmented picture of their children's school work.

A window they could peer through to watch the modern world unfold in its myriad variations, while only the smallest, strangest fragments washed ashore on the island.»

On islands and in fragmented urban and suburban habitats unnaturally high densities of cats are not only capable of reducing or eradicating populations of birds and small mammals, they can out - compete native predators like foxes and weasels.

That's the only way to see whether it has been made from a single, long sheet of rawhide - or whether a smaller sheet has been wrapped around a lot of bits and fragments of rawhide.

With only three super airlines controlling the majority of the US market, instead of being fragmented across 6 legacy carriers and several smaller carriers, airlines are now free to screw the consumer every which way till Sunday.

Today, the only opportunities for high school graduates to engage in international volunteer service (outside the military) are small, fragmented and extremely expensive.

The portion of the payments space representing startups and smaller companies like Venmo or Square Cash, while robust, still only comprise fragmented solutions that together could be powerful.