Their high risk / high payoff technology is aimed at solving the national level problems of protection from biological, chemical and information attack and to provide operational dominance for mobile distributed command and control, combined manned / unmanned warfare, and dynamic, adaptive military planning and execution.

Their form can range from simple implements such as clubs to complicated modern implementations such as intercontinental ballistic missiles and biological weapons.

Their maleficium is often seen as a biological trait or an acquired skill.

Their aim was to classify artifacts, like biological organisms, according to families, genera, and species.

Their intelligence is measured against that of an average biological member of the Culture ; a so-called " 1. 0 value " drone would be considered the mental equal of a biological citizen, whereas lesser drones such as the menial service units of Orbitals are merely proto-sentient ( capable of limited reaction to unprogrammed events, but possessing no consciousness, and thus not considered citizens ; these take care of much of the menial work in the Culture ).

Their survival during speeds over 10, 000 miles per hour was America's first biological step toward putting a man into space.

Their biological augmentations make them an equal match for the Skins, which they invented years ago, and inflict severe casualties on the asset realization force.

Their family includes three children: Lindesfarne, a hedgehog adopted from Kevin's first marriage ; Rudy, a wolf / fox hybrid born during Kell's first marriage ; and their only biological child Coney, a carnivorous rabbit.

Their ideas used recent achievements in biological fisheries modelling, primarily the works by Schaefer ( 1957 ) on establishing a formal relationship between fishing activities and biological growth through mathematical modelling confirmed by empirical studies, and also relates itself to ecology and the environment and resource protection.

Their biological similarity with humans is also key to the traits for which they are valuable as research subjects.

Their mother's elder brothers have important roles in raising them, as they belong to the same clan ; their biological father, of a different clan, does not have the same status.

Their name is both an anagram of " Dalek ", as " Dalek " is itself of " Kaled " and a play on the biological term " clade ", being a group of species sharing a common ancestor.

Their ability to emulate the operation of biological muscles with high fracture toughness, large actuation strain and inherent vibration damping draw the attention of scientists in this field.

Their origins are diverse ; they include posthumans or other ascended biological beings, ascended cyborgs, ascended vecs ( sophont robots ), aliens, AIs, or other beings, remotes or agents of archailects, offspring of other transapients, or any combination of any of these or more.

Their attempts were thwarted when the child's biological father ( who had been working as their butler ) intervened.

Their marriage produced three children ; two biological sons and an adopted daughter.

Their biological children are Toryn and Landen.

Their culture is far more egalitarian, with different twists and customs at every hand ; Mamutoi Camps, for instance, are co-ruled by headmen and headwomen who are biological, or adoptive, siblings, and the Sharamudoi, a people that lives half-on and-off the Great Mother River, form complex co-mate systems between river couples ( Ramudoi ) and land couples ( Shamudoi ).

Their secondary structure is key to their biological activity.

Their design is such that they mimic the subject's outer appearance ( i. e., fingerprints, hair, all details of the skin ), speech patterns, scent, iris and retina patterns, body language, thought patterns ( to fool telepaths ), and any other biological indicators.

Their spells utilize biological attacks which steadily cause damage over time.

Their effects, whether fortunate or unfortunate, depend on the circumstances of the environment, biological, social cultural.

Their visual image also evolved and, although they had worn make-up since their creation in the mid 1970s, the band was unintentionally tagged with the New Romantic label in the early 1980s.

Their make-up and orchestration ( by Juan Formell ) has been so greatly altered that it is difficult to identify traces of danzón, indeed, their present styles owe more to the son than to the danzón.

Their appearance has changed over the years ; the nun motif remains the same, but it has been joined with exaggerated make-up that accentuates the rebellion against gender roles and religion.

Their music was traditional in make-up, and the group covered a variety of American blues standards, as well as composing several home-spun tunes.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

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 President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''.

Their writing, born of their experiments in marijuana and untrammeled sexuality, reflects the extremity of their existential alienation.

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 eyes betrayed too much of their emotions, she thought sadly.

Their locations in all parts of the United States, and their locations in the several kinds of educational and research institutions that are the principal homes of our intellectual and artistic strengths also are factors in the Trustees' minds.

Their two boys were `` well adjusted '' and, like their parents, always did the right thing at the right time and damn the consequences.

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.

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

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

Their own experience in the social system influences their work and attitudes as teachers.

Their affection for their college home has even caused President Dickey to comment on this `` place loyalty '' as something rather specially Hanoverian.

Their presence is not as frightening as the discontent which creates their opportunity.

Their names are Mantle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real.

Their direct descendants inherited not only their worldly fortunes, but also the mandate of their newfound power as spirits in the other half of the universe.

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

Their metabolic rate is low and as a result, their food and energy requirements are limited.

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 therapy consisted of constraint-induced movement therapy which resulted in improvements of their arm function.