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Green writes: [Lexicographers] have retained their priestly role, especially in America, and especially in the world of what America terms college and Britain concise dictionaries,... [p. 359]
The suspension was vortexed and then centrifuged at 10,000×g for 10 min, and the supernatant containing proteins was retained.
One pattern that has emerged from comparative analyses of fully sequenced genomes is that, although different pathogen and symbiont lineages approach the same minimal genome size, the inventories of genes retained by these organisms are extremely different [ 3, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36].
For example, she noted, though Sudan did eventually expel Bin Ladin, his al Qaeda network retained a presence in the country.
§ 1353 may be retained by the employee for personal use.