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Foreign invaders chipped away at the fringes of the empire.
The correlation between average mutational effects (α) and directional epistasis (β) described by Wilke and Adami [ 11 ] implies that whether a reference sequence shows synergistic or antagonistic epistasis depends on whether it lies near the center of a dense cluster of high-fitness sequences in genetic space, or on the fringes of such a cluster.
A profile of eccentric German animal illusionists Siegfried and Roy describes life inside their "Jungle Palace" on the fringes of Las Vegas.
And, like McGovern, Dole was enticed into an untenable choice, not by his party's fringes, but by ostensibly responsible establishmentarian elements.
A more serious semantic problem is the ambiguity regarding paddle tennis and platform tennis . Here there is a yawning gulf of misunderstanding between the aficionados, who insist on a precise distinction, and the thousands on the fringes who sloppily apply the term paddle tennis to both sports.