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By necessity, systematic reviews come many years after hypotheses are first raised, and in the interim recommendations for practice may sway back and forth.
In the succeeding centuries Byzantium, like the cities of the Aegean, fell under the sway of Athens, Sparta, Persia, Alexander, and Rome.
Among several British editorials on NATO's birthday, the Times ' warned Blair against trying to woo America with "the moral fervour which comes so naturally to him," since what was most needed to sway U.S. opinion was "an informed case based on strategic interest, an argument for committing US troops that explains why the future contours of European peace are being decided in the Balkans."
Now we seem to be engaged in a rapid rewind of the morality tape, zipping right through the age of Victoria to the time when the rules of droit du seigneur held sway.
Our count of 66,000-75,000 transcriptional units on the genome is consistent with gene count estimates [ 28, 29] that had held sway until recent widely varying estimates [ 17, 30, 31].