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This question tapped an ongoing battle between staunch conservative Christians and liberal-minded believers on topics ranging from PBS's Frontline special "From Jesus to Christ" to the interplay of politics, Christians, and gays.
Finally he walked up and almost half-heartedly tapped at the putt, which missed, and he lost, and when it was over he cried.
The NYT mentions the Orioles' losing record last season, leading the reader to wonder why they, rather than the World Series-winning Yankees, were tapped for this bit of diplomacy.
In terrestrial biological systems, energy is tapped via stepwise electron transport between electron donors and acceptors via an electron transport chain . Applying this principle universally, we should be able to detect the chemical components of electron transport chains or electron transport itself as a signature of life.
In an elegant experiment, Esch and Burns (1995) tapped into the bees' dance language to access their subjective assessment of flight distance.