#instances

The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#between #choice #disrupted #independent #instances

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#both #controlled #dogs #environment #indoors

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ↗

— James Madison

#encroachments #freedom #gradual #i #i believe

Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#channel #drama #effectively #fascinate #few

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#agree #been #before #colin #ever

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. ↗

— John Perkins

#been #built #comes #done #empire

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter. ↗

— Gideon Welles

#been #brighter #errors #heart #hopes

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#fired #instances #neurons #only #some

The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#always #am #better #city #except

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances