Their lack of sight does not hinder their ability to get any and all food before it hits the bottom.

Their small size, adaptable metabolism, and ability to move to more favorable habitats were key factors in their survivability during the late Cretaceous and early Paleocene.

Their survival is aided by their ability to breed rapidly.

Their crystalline biology apparently gives them the ability to send and receive hyperwave transmissions.

Their activity is regulated by factors that control their ability to bind to and hydrolyze guanosine triphosphate ( GTP ) to guanosine diphosphate ( GDP ).

Their ability to attract members was largely due to their pragmatic stance, especially their rejection of extremism, and to their growing independence from Moscow ( see Eurocommunism ).

Their use is restricted in eliciting testimony in court, to reduce the ability of the examiner to direct or influence the evidence presented.

Their ability to spread efficiently enough to cause a pandemic is limited, however, as transmission of these viruses requires close contact with the infected vector, and the vector only has a short time before death or serious illness.

Their ability to recognize pain may be blunted by illness or the use of multiple prescription drugs.

Their patents included two other major interrelated innovations: one concerning the use of parallel connected, instead of series connected, utilization loads, the other concerning the ability to have high turns ratio transformers such that the supply network voltage could be much higher ( initially 1, 400 to 2, 000 V ) than the voltage of utilization loads ( 100 V initially preferred ).

Their effect is due to their ability to bind to intracellular receptors, modulating the gene expression, and subsequently regulating protein synthesis.

Their greatest power is often the ability to force a government to reveal certain pieces of information.

Their affordability and ability to run on personal computers also allowed engineers to do their own drafting work, eliminating the need for entire departments.

Their lifespans depend on temperature, humidity, and their ability to successfully obtain a blood meal while avoiding host defenses and predators.

Their ability to influence and participate in the external policies that may exercise jurisdiction over their traditional lands and practices is very frequently limited.

Pointing out the achievement given the conditions, he further stated, " Their ability to replicate that exact point — what they did was phenomenal, what they did was spot on.

Their ability to run swiftly has also led to their association with the wind, such as in the Rig Veda, as the steeds of the Maruts and the wind god Vayu.

Their ability to spread further south is restricted as their prey hunting method, pursuit diving, becomes less efficient in warmer waters.

Their influence draws, in part, from grassroots activism as well as their focus on social issues and ability to motivate the electorate around those issues.

Their ability to run at high speeds,, is due to their highly specialised pelvic limb musculature.

Their ability to operate off-road, in deep water and mud makes it easier to access remote areas in emergency situations.

Their purpose was " to transform one's ability to experience living so that the situations one had been trying to change or had been putting up with, clear up just in the process of life itself.

Their ability to contribute to the economy and family are respected but, they are believed to be less capable than men as managers and their work is looked upon as insignificant.

Their coercive power arose from the ability, on authority of the crown, to hold a violator in contempt, and take away his or her freedom ( or money ) until he or she purged himself or herself of his or her contumacious behavior.

Their low diversity in Africa may explain why some primitive fish families and Cypriniformes coexist with them while they are absent in South America, where these fish may have been driven extinct.

Their time-share business allowed multiple users from multiple businesses to coexist on the same computer, presenting many of the same vulnerabilities of modern networked information systems.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;

It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.

Their expressed standards concerning sex roles, desirable age for marriage, characteristics of an ideal mate, number of children desired are congruent with the values and stereotypes of the preceding generation -- minus compulsive rebellion.

Their burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always familial -- neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis.

Their names had not come up in any discussions with Laura, and he had no idea what they would be like.

Their ham butts, cured in oak-log smoke, were also esteemed when roasted or boiled, and served with this original sauce:

Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.

Their appearance, next spring, coincides in an almost uncanny way with the flowering of their host plants.

Their experience is quite in contrast with that of children of upper- and upper-middle-class native-born parents, who are more likely to regard education as good for its own sake and to discount the vocational emphases in the curriculum.

Their characteristic experience is that of the individual at an altar or a shrine rather than that of a continuing social group with a distinctive kind of fellowship.

Their old errors of judgment were equated, in the curious logic of the time, with present treasonous intent.

Their autumn tints are all fairly low keyed compared with the fiery stabs of crimson, gold, purple, bronze, blue and vermilion that flame up in North America.

Their lungs improved and their skeletons became heavier and stronger, better able to cope with the increased gravitational effect of life on land.

Their bodies writhe and they raise and lash their tails which makes it difficult for the predator to avoid contact with their poison-producing granular glands.

Their lack of eyes, a morphology not well-suited for swimming, and their fossils found in association with other benthic trilobites all suggest a benthic ( bottom-dwelling ) mode of life.

Their leaves are of variable size and alternately arranged, or alternate with the upper leaves becoming nearly opposite.

Their fecundity is high and increases with their size ( from 10, 000 to 11 million eggs at a time ).

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

Their fur is a reddish or dark colour above, with a paler underside.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

Their main force was infantry, armed with javelins in the front ranks and pikes behind, which formed into a phalanx ; and was supported by camelmen and horsemen on the flanks.

Their houses, scattered throughout Lombardy and Venetia, were united into a congregation by St Pius V, under the Rule of St Augustine with a mother-house, residence of the prioress general, at Pavia.

Their honeymoon journey to Italy sealed an intellectual bond with the culture of the Mediterranean region that was to remain important to Aalto for the rest of his life.