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When urged to give up his place in line, the child initially _______ but eventually acquiesced.
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The regulatory agency's attempts to impose new and harsher restrictions on the business community were met with such _______ that the agency finally opted to maintain its existing rules.
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In his discussion of art, Ramachandran makes no distinction between the arousal value of a stimulus and its aesthetic value; he takes the emotional power of an artwork to be _______ that work's aesthetic quality.
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The only way to definitively test a large civil engineering structure such as a bridge is to build it in anticipation of possible challenges from nature and then let nature take its course. That is not to say that every new large structure is a (i)_______. Engineers understand a great deal about the behavior and limitations of their structures' components. Furthermore, it is the (ii)________ structure that is built more than 10 or 20 percent larger than its predecessors, thus allowing engineers to move (iii)_______ into unknown territory.
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Geologists' customary distinction between planetary mantle and core material appears increasingly _______: liquid oxides can be considered either molten mantle constituents or electrically conducting core components.
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Scholars and journalists interested in the ideology of rock music have rightly noted that Romanticism and Modernism provided rock with an aesthetic morality (i)_______ commercialism. However, while openly expressing (ii)________ mass culture, rock has exhibited a remarkable capacity to (iii)_______ it, calling the genre's subversive image into question.
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Terms like "mystery fiction" and "crime fiction" have connotations that may not be _______ but are hardly laudatory, at least not in the way that those of terms like "literary fiction" and "metaphysical poetry" are laudatory.
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Though the progress of the reform legislation was _______, it was surprisingly steady, and there never seemed any reasonable doubt that it would eventually be enacted into law.
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Preservation of historically significant architecture once (i)_______. But as preservation's scope has widened from individual buildings to entire urban districts, it has become a cultural (ii)_______. Much of the debate involves modernist architecture's role in areas preserved as historic districts. Although preservation professionals often (iii)_______ modernist additions to these settings, there is strong public support for keeping new buildings traditional.
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Local seawater acidification caused by carbon dioxide bubbling from the Pacific Ocean floor above a buried volcano _______ projected levels of climate-change-induced ocean acidification and so provides insight into likely future reef ecosystem effects.
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Because video game users control their character's actions, the distinction between media user and character is not as _______ in video games as it is in traditional media, where audience members simply witness characters' actions.
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Although it is premature to say whether nanomotors would _______ conventional methods, Wang believes that the most promising applications for nanomotors lie in fast drug delivery or low-cost cleanup of environmental pollutants.
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Pearl millet possesses the unique genetic predisposition to withstand environmental stress and produce appreciable yield, cultivation on _______ soils notwithstanding.
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