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may and involve
The sequence may involve a sharp contrast: for example, a quiet meditative sway of the body succeeded by a violent leap ; ;
Martin said the government has been working to establish firmer prices on primary products which may involve the total income of one country.
This may involve snapping, chasing and sometimes biting, occasionally causing the loss of a tail.
Spinal disorders of various types may cause sensory ataxia from the lesioned level below, when they involve the dorsal columns
A key problem in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values.
This may or may not involve self defense in that, using a reasonable degree of force to prevent another from committing a crime could involve preventing an assault, but it could be preventing a crime not involving the use of personal violence.
Fire plans may also involve use of non-artillery assets such as mortars and aircraft.
This may involve various methods to persuade a person to take the medication, or actual physical force.
Because of the medical problems that can be caused by withdrawal, alcohol detoxification is carefully controlled and may involve medications such as benzodiazepines such as diazepam ( Valium ).
Genital modification and mutilation may involve amputating tissue, although not necessarily as a result of injury or disease.
It may involve chemical tests, physical tests, or performance tests.
In systems engineering it may involve black-box testing performed on a system ( for example: a piece of software, lots of manufactured mechanical parts, or batches of chemical products ) prior to its delivery.
Depending on the context, jumping may also involve capturing or conquering an opponent's game piece.
Planning may involve the development of biological identification systems. Until recently in the United States, most biological defense strategies have been geared to protecting soldiers on the battlefield rather than ordinary people in cities.
There are several other mental disorders which may involve similar symptoms to bipolar disorder.
In Sweden, bankruptcy ( Swedish: konkurs ) is a process that may involve a company or individual.
The company remains bound, but the directors retain the discretion to vote against taking the future actions ( although that may involve a breach by the company of the contract that the board previously approved ).
More complex computations may involve many operations and data elements together.

may and more
The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.
Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.
But a somewhat more detailed analysis of this process may be illuminating.
In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;
This is simple enough, but several more points of interest may be mentioned as relevant.
Father Murray goes back to the Declaration of Independence, too, though I may add, with considerably more historical perception.
Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.
The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.
Or in more Freudian terms, the experience may serve to sublimate our destructive urges and strengthen the ego and superego.
Since more is known about Quiney than about any other acquaintance of Shakespeare in Stratford, his career may be followed to its sudden end in 1602.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
what is new and compelling is that the West is now but one of several powerful civilizations, or `` systems '', and that one or more of the others may pose a mortal danger to the West.
South Viet Nam's rice surplus for next year -- more than 300,000 tons -- may have been destroyed.
For the young child this may be no more than providing food, light or movement.
This may be opera bouffe now, but it will become more serious should the cold war mount in frenzy.
This may be helpful in improving the competitive position of established firms through diversification and expansion or through more economical utilization of plant capacity.
In the more primitive areas, where the capacity to absorb and utilize external assistance is limited, some activities may be of such obvious priority that we may decide to support them before a well worked out program is available.

may and subtle
For this reason, then, poetry tends to weaken the power of control, the reason, because it tempts one to indulge his passions, and even the best of men, he maintains, may be corrupted by this subtle influence.
Even subtle cues indicating kinship may unconsciously increase altruistic behavior.
Some side effects, such as subtle cognitive problems, may go unnoticed.
They may show subtle early traits such as mood abnormalities, full major depressive episodes, and ADHD.
Anthropologist Dean Snow stated that though Franklin's Albany Plan may have drawn some inspiration from the Iroquois League, there is little evidence that either the Plan or the Constitution drew substantially from this source and argues that "... such claims muddle and denigrate the subtle and remarkable features of Iroquois government.
The forward closure is then released, producing what may be the loudest consonants in the language, although in some languages such as Hadza and Sandawe, clicks can be more subtle and may even be mistaken for ejectives.
Transcendent force or power may also operate through more subtle and indirect paths.
The ERM may be less subtle than normalization in several aspects, but it captures the main needed dependencies which are induced by keys / identifiers of entities and relationships.
While amplification is rarely used in classical music, in some cases where a bass soloist performs a concerto with a full orchestra, subtle amplification called acoustic enhancement may be used.
Most traffic lights in Cairo appear not to function, but rather intersections are staffed by policemen who use subtle finger movements to indicate which cars may move.
Ethnocentrism may be overt or subtle, and while it is considered a natural proclivity of human psychology, it has developed a generally negative connotation.
Irradiated food does not become radioactive, but in some cases there may be subtle chemical changes.
Also, many students feel subtle pressure to participate in order not to offend professors who may later be grading their work.
Language may also be a more subtle form of bias.
The diagnosis of myasthenia gravis may be delayed if the symptoms are subtle or variable.
Secondary symptoms may include high level cognitive dysfunction and subtle language problems.
This perceived tempo difference may be a coupling of subtle pronunciation differences and unusual sayings and can be a contributing factor to the difficulty non-Newfoundlanders sometimes experience with the dialect.
Commentators have become important in communicating the relevance of the characters ' actions to the story at hand, filling in past details and pointing out subtle actions that may otherwise go unnoticed.
On the other hand, a deep theorem may be simply stated, but its proof may involve surprising and subtle connections between disparate areas of mathematics.

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