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Railroads preceded settlers into many parts of the United States, and every few miles a siding had to be built so that trains could pull off the track and wait for others to pass.
It is no coincidence that the Iraq war, the only recent military engagement preceded by a vigorous national debate, was also an operation that Americans supported wholeheartedly.
The latter is believed to have occurred only in cyanobacteria [ 10 ] and preceded the symbiotic event leading to the mitochondrion of eukaryotes.
..), preceded by the secretion signal peptide of the human IL-2.
Promoter 1b was linked to the EGFP-F reporter using a HindIII/BamHI fragment that contained 5' flank, exons 1b and b', 3 KB of intron 1b', and the coding exon splice acceptor site preceded by 250 nucleotides of intron 1c.