As he told a Senate committee, " Significant cuts in the Defense Budget now would seriously weaken the U. S. position on international negotiations — in which U. S. military capabilities, in both real and symbolic terms, are an important factor.

Significant age-related declines in dopamine receptors, D < sub > 2 </ sub > and D < sub > 3 </ sub > were detected in the anterior cingulate cortex, frontal cortex, lateral temporal cortex, hippocampus, medial temporal cortex, amygdala, medial thalamus, and lateral thalamus One study also indicated a significant inverse correlation between dopamine binding in the occipital cortex and age.

Significant correlations were also found in the auditory cortex, the somatosensory cortex related to the organs responsible for speech ( lips, tongue and mouth ), and frontal and parietal regions related to attention and performance monitoring.

Significant use of tortoise plastrons does not appear until the Shang culture sites.

Significant part numbering systems are easier to use if you are trying to identify an item though the use of its code inside your company rather than a long description ; however, many variations can start to appear when the code is used by other companies, which may be your distributors, and then people can become confused.

Significant progress in Big Bang cosmology have been made since the late 1990s as a result of advances in telescope technology as well as the analysis of data from satellites such as COBE, the Hubble Space Telescope and WMAP.

Significant elements of English common law prior to 1776 still remain in effect in many jurisdictions in the United States, because they have never been rejected by American courts or legislatures.

Significant carbonate deposits have not been found on Mars via remote sensing or in situ missions, even though Martian meteorites contain small amounts.

" Significant amounts " of hexavalent chromium were found in the water of more than 40 homes in the area, some of which have now been fitted with state-monitored filters on their water supply.

Significant stands of trees have been destroyed by the ravages of the war.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

Significant syntactic changes have arisen in Modern Hebrew as a result of non-Semitic substrate influences.

Significant discoveries of petroleum and natural gas, an extension of the West Siberian Oil Basin, have been made but have not yet been developed.

Significant variants of the game, such as where the starting position differs from standard or the objective is to have the fewest pieces one's color at the end, are sometimes — but rarely — played.

Significant deposits of elemental sulfur, believed to have been ( and are still being ) synthesised by anaerobic bacteria on sulfate minerals like gypsum, exist in salt domes along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and in evaporites in eastern Europe and western Asia.

Significant advances in the state-of-the-art in CSR have been achieved, and current efforts are focused on integrating speech recognition and natural language processing to allow spoken language interaction with a naval resource management system.

Significant amendments were made to the Constitution in 1991, and there have been a number of judicial interpretations made to take into account the fact that the Constitution covers a much smaller area than originally envisioned.

Significant measures have been taken to liberalize the Tanzanian economy along market lines and encourage both foreign and domestic private investment.

Significant positive correlations have been found between grey matter volume in elderly persons and measures of semantic and short-term memory.

These " Bloomsbury assumptions " are also reflected in members ' criticisms of materialistic realism in painting and fiction, influenced above all by Clive Bell's " concept of ' Significant Form ', which separated and elevated the concept of form above content in works of art ": it has been suggested that, with their " focus on form ... Bell's ideas have come to stand in for, perhaps too much so, the aesthetic principles of the Bloomsbury Group ".

Significant fatality rates from epidemics have produced ghost towns.

Significant areas have been converted to plantations, or for use in agriculture and pasture.

Significant changes in the number of fixed and mobile services deployed in Bangladesh occurred in the late 1990s and the number of services in operation have subsequently grown exponentially in the past five years.

Significant statistical anomalies have also been found when using the logistic distribution in chess.

Significant collections of Tiffany windows outside the United States are the 17 windows in the former Erskine and American United Church, now part of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, Canada, and the two windows in the American Church in Paris, on the Quai d ' Orsay, which have been classified as National Monuments by the French government ; these were commissioned by Rodman Wanamaker in 1901 for the original American Church building on the right bank of the Seine.

Significant additions have been made to the campus since January 1999, when a powerful tornado destroyed nearly complete new school buildings and historic residential areas surrounding the downtown area.

Significant efforts have been made by residents to maintain the rural character of the town through advocacy for the preservation of open spaces.

Significant growth in recent years has occurred to the northeast, where homes have been built along the ravine of Maple Creek as well as alongside Brooktree Golf Course, to the north, and to the southeast.

Significant and largely successful efforts have been made to deal with deteriorating housing, brownfields, drug problems, and other issues as population leaves the city limits and concentrates in suburban boroughs and townships.

So, after the sitting has been held, several readings at one time are mailed, and the distant sitter ( whose name or whose communicator's name was given to the medium ) must mark each little item as Correct ( Hit ), Incorrect ( Miss ), Doubtful, or Especially Significant ( applying to him and, he feels, not to anyone else ).

Significant research has been applied to the application of microfluidics for the production of industrially relevant quantities of material.

Significant progress has also been made in bringing the world of UML modeling and the Semantic Web together through the adoption of the Ontology Definition Metamodel which relates UML models in a standard way with RDF and Web Ontology Language ( OWL ) models.

Significant research has been undertaken into the development of novel wine yeast strains that produce atypical flavour profiles or increased complexity in wines.

Significant work has been performed on a more ambitious concept, the Venus Geoscience Aerobot ( VGA ).

Significant excavation has since been conducted at the site of the city, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.

Significant contribution to Russian horror literature has been done by Ukrainians Andrey Dashkov and Alexander Vargo.

Significant internal reforms were introduced during the later part of the 18th century, but the reform process was not allowed to run its course, as the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy through a series of invasions and partitions terminated the Commonwealth's independent existence in 1795.

Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of HMS Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard ; HMS Challenger during the 1870s ; the USS Tuscarora ( 1873 – 76 ); and the German Gazelle ( 1874 – 76 ).

Significant progress came following the work of Louis Pasteur and his advances in microbiology, when the British surgeon Joseph Lister began experimenting with using phenol during surgery to prevent infections.

Significant exceptions before 1800 can be found in Purcell's works, German opera of Hamburg during the Baroque, ballad opera and Singspiel of the 18th century, etc.

Significant events shape the period during which Yoshiharu was shogun:

Significant urban growth occurred in the 1920s, and during the 1930s to 1950s large-scale growth occurred.

Significant numbers of Adiabene population follow her, later also providing limited support for Jews during Jewish-Roman wars.

Significant concern was raised during the 1960s, with developers threatening the destruction of historical buildings, especially in Sydney.

Significant canyon-shaping events occurred as recently as 15, 000 years ago during a massive outburst flood from Glacial Lake Bonneville in Utah.

Significant former members include bass guitarist Derek Forbes and keyboard player Michael MacNeil ( the latter credited as a significant band composer during the band's rise in the 1980s ).

Significant opposition to the Iraq War occurred worldwide, both before and during the initial 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and smaller contingents from other nations, and throughout the subsequent occupation.

Significant events shape the period during which Yoshiaki was shogun:

Significant progress in science was made in the Muslim world during the Middle Ages, especially during the Islamic Golden Age, which is considered a major period in the history of science.

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