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Which leads back to the issue of why we ought to create a special category for what I'm calling intimidation or political terrorism: because these crimes are more deleterious to the social fabric than ordinary crimes.
Antagonizing the effects of glucocorticoids by RU486 may, however, result in deleterious effects.
. Antagonistic epistasis therefore implies unexpected robustness to the effects of multiple deleterious mutations [ 2 ] .
Prudie is mindful of the fact that a gemütlich bunch of girlfriends is wonderful, but this crowd is hazardous to your health, the deleterious effects of secondhand smoke having been accepted by most people.
Even the double deletion mutants α-α' and β-β', which presumably affect local folding and hence could be less deleterious overall, did not restore mobility.