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The auditors are relying on the failing bank to make changes that it has steadfastly resisted for years and even now does not seem _____________ to carry out.
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Faced with so much conflicting information on the internet, many people come to believe that all sources are so _____________ that efforts to discriminate between the true and the false are inevitably futile.
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This artistic and literary movement reflected a widespread nihilistic protest against every aspect of Western culture and thus _____________ the particular aesthetic values of that culture.
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In the solar system, collisions involving cosmic objects are among the most _____________ processes shaping surfaces: images of many solar system objects show a proliferation of impact craters formed throughout the past 4.5 billion years.
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Feeling that Francisco Suarez`s views on early modern philosophy had received an amount of attention (i)_____________ their great importance, the scholar decided to write a paper about Suarez to help (ii) _____________ that neglect.
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Though nations no longer (i) _____________ nuclear physicists—the men and women who once delivered the destructive power of the atom bomb—physics still has the same power to (ii) _____________, but in another way, by revealing the basic truths that underpin reality.
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In light of Elizabeth's habitually (i) _____________ nature, her friends were quite surprised by her (ii) _____________ at the convention.
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Although the Endangered Species Act is intended to conserve ecosystems, it is only the ecosystems of listed endangered and threatened species that the statute (i)_____________. Moreover, even in this sense, the conservation of ecosystems is (ii)_____________ the conservation of listed species: the word “ecosystem” appears only once in the statute, in the purpose statement, and from there the statute is (iii) _____________ species.
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Coral reefs are often referred to as the rain forests of the sea, _____________ comparison given that only tropical rain forests can compete with the sheer concentration of biodiversity found in coral reefs.
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Only novel ideas should be awarded patents; if a concept is _____________to practitioners in a given field or has previously been published in almost any fashion, that fact should invalidate the application.
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The vast majority of universities in the United States promote themselves as institutions of free speech and thought, construing censorship as _____________ their search for knowledge.
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Although evolutionary psychologists do not seem quite as imperialist in their intellectual ambitions as their sociobiologist forebears of the 1970s, they tend, in some critics' view, to be no less _____________ in their claims.
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Given the many thematic strands that the book seeks to draw together into a continuous cord of narrative, it is perforce a work of _____________, which is not to say that the author's research fails to provide sufficient detail about each of his chosen themes.
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The organization's parlous fiscal condition led its members to expect that their plans for expansions would be ______________.
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Parker's model of human affairs reflects (i) _____________outlook, in stark contrast to the generally (ii) _____________ analyses of her colleagues in the economics department.
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As theories, quantum field theory and theory of general relatively have been astonishingly (i) _____________, in that no experiment yet has shown a crack in either of them, even though both of them (ii) _____________ wildly counterintuitive properties in physical reality. And yet even proponents note that the two theories are (iii) _____________, a fact that has disallowed theorists—at least so far—from incorporating both into a self-consistent theory of quantum gravity.
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The notion that scientists consider the work they do to be (i) ______________ contradicts popular stereotypes that depict the work of scientists (and the scientists themselves) as being formal and rigid, following lockstep procedures in which the (ii) ______________ elements of researchers' personalities fail to enter their labors.
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For decades scientists believed in the (i) _____________of long-term memories; they were unstable for a few hours but then became etched into the brain for good. Current research, however, suggests that recalling a memory causes it to revert temporarily to an insecure state in which the recollection can be (ii) _____________. Thus, memory is much more (iii)_____________ than scientists had previously thought it to be.
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Coral reefs are often referred to as the rain forests of the sea, _____________ comparison given that only tropical rain forests can compete with the sheer concentration of biodiversity found in coral reefs.
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The rebellion was _____________ one, driven less by ardor than by reason and calculation.
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