What we must have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's ambition.

Shortly before its final " flowering ", the changes in a single minute of the Blight's life are said to exceed those of 10, 000 years of human civilization.

* Only encoding sounds that could be made by a single human voice.

It is not a coincidence that this happens in the " visible range ," as the mechanism of vision involves the change in bonding of a single molecule ( retinal ) which absorbs light in the rhodopsin the retina of the human eye.

" Evolutionary psychology is the long-forestalled scientific attempt to assemble out of the disjointed, fragmentary, and mutually contradictory human disciplines a single, logically integrated research framework for the psychological, social, and behavioral sciences — a framework

Molecular evidence suggests that between 8 and 4 million years ago, first the gorillas, and then the chimpanzees ( genus Pan ) split off from the line leading to the humans ; human DNA is approximately 98. 4 % identical to that of chimpanzees when comparing single nucleotide polymorphisms ( see human evolutionary genetics ).

This is an example of anisogamy or heterogamy, the condition wherein females and males produce gametes of different sizes ( this is the case in humans ; the human ovum has approximately 100, 000 times the volume of a single human sperm cell ).

This makes the battle one of the most catastrophic defeats in the history of Ancient Rome, and one of the bloodiest battles in all of human history ( in terms of the number of lives lost within a single day ).

The illustration she used of the Cogul painting leaves out a number of figures, human and animal, and the original is more likely a sequence of superimposed but unrelated illustrations, rather than a depiction of a single scene.

Many modern kayaks have modified the traditional design in various ways, such as: eliminating the cockpit by seating the paddler on top of the boat (" sit-on-top " kayaks ); having inflated air chambers surrounding the boat ; replacing the single hull by twin hulls (" W " kayak ), and replacing paddles with other human powered propulsion methods, such as foot-powered rotational propellers and ' flippers '.

Pike's approach to the study of language put him outside the circle of the " generative " movement begun by Noam Chomsky, a dominant linguist, since Pike believed that the structure of language should be studied in context, not just single sentences, as seen in the title of his magnum opus " Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior " ( 1967 ).

In many cases a single topic, for example, the heart or the human fetus, is covered in detail in both words and pictures on a single sheet.

Mature human lactase consists of a single 160 kDa polypeptide chain that localizes to the brush border membrane of intestinal epithelial cells.

For example, the human eye uses four genes to make structures that sense light: three for color vision and one for night vision ; all four arose from a single ancestral gene.

For example, the human eye uses four genes to make structures that sense light: three for color vision and one for night vision ; all four arose from a single ancestral gene.

* The Unique World of Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaljian: A collection of micro-miniature sculptures, each carved from a single human hair and placed within the eye of a needle.

Well-studied biological nucleic acid molecules range in size from 21 nucleotides ( small interfering RNA ) to large chromosomes ( human chromosome 1 is a single molecule that contains 247 million base pairs ).

With respect to the universe, existential nihilism posits that a single human or even the entire human species is insignificant, without purpose and unlikely to change in the totality of existence.

Where Nestorianism holds that Christ had two loosely-united natures, divine and human, monophysitism holds that he had but a single nature, his human nature being absorbed into his divinity.

A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when USS Cyclops, under the command of Lt Cdr G. W.

The theory asserts that all currently living organisms on Earth share a common genetic heritage with each being the descendant from a single original species, though the suggestion of substantial horizontal gene transfer during early evolution has led to questions about monophyly of life.

For him, celibacy is the single life, free from such distraction, not a life of saintly denial.

A clade ( from Ancient Greek, klados, " branch ") or monophylum ( see monophyletic ) is a group consisting of an ancestor and all its descendants, a single " branch " on the " tree of life ".

In the same play the character Hermia is told by the Duke Theseus that she must either wed the character Demetrius " Or on Diana's alter to protest for aye austerity and single life ".

Satirising life in a British prison, meanwhile, the Bowie-penned " Over the Wall We Go " became a 1967 single for Oscar ; another Bowie composition, " Silly Boy Blue ", was released by Billy Fury the following year.

Jonathan Kozol, a former public school teacher and prominent public school reform thinker has called vouchers the " single worst, most dangerous idea to have entered education discourse in my adult life.

A wave as it is understood in everyday life would paint a large area of the detection screen, but the electrons would be found to impact the screen at single points and would eventually form a pattern in keeping with the probabilities described by their identical wave functions.

A film could be under a minute long and would usually present a single scene, authentic or staged, of everyday life, a public event, a sporting event or slapstick.

* 1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

The Gaia hypothesis deals with the concept of homeostasis, and claims the resident life forms of a host planet coupled with their environment have acted and act as a single, self-regulating system.

The most extreme form of Gaia theory is that the entire Earth is a single unified organism ; in this view the Earth's biosphere is consciously manipulating the climate in order to make conditions more conducive to life.

For example, the ship Wilhelm Gustloff sank taking about 9, 400 people with her – the worst loss of life in a single sinking in maritime history.

This is the case when presenting computer performance with respect to a reference computer, or when computing a single average index from several heterogeneous sources ( for example life expectancy, education years and infant mortality ).

But if, say, ten Companions record a text reporting a single incident in the life of Prophet, hadith scholars can count this as ten hadiths.

As of June 2006 32 Italian troops have been killed in Iraq – with the greatest single loss of life coming on November 12, 2003 – a suicide car bombing of the Italian Carabinieri Corps HQ left a dozen Carabinieri, five Army soldiers, two Italian civilians, and eight Iraqi civilians dead.

The single was released in 1986, and Marrow learned that " 6 in the Mornin '" was more popular in clubs than its A-side, leading Marrow to rap about Los Angeles gang life, which Marrow described more explicitly than any previous rapper.

A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

Later in his life, Greenberg proposed that nearly all of the language families of northern Eurasia belong to a single higher-order family, which he called Eurasiatic.

First formulated by Lovelock during the 1960s as a result of work for NASA concerned with detecting life on Mars, the Gaia hypothesis proposes that living and non-living parts of the Earth form a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism.

A single verse is not poetry unless it is a one-verse poem ; and even the finest line draws its life from its context.