Example sentences for: vestige

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  • Thousands perished and much of China’s cultural heritage was destroyed as a vestige of feudalism.

  • Many genes were modulated similarly in all of the cell lines, suggesting conservation of a specific androgen-responsive program, perhaps a vestige of the prostatic epithelial phenotype, between these cell lines (Figure 3; see also [ 12] and Additional data files).

  • CWC opponents may muster the 34 votes needed to prevent a two-thirds ratification vote (thanks to the earnest but clueless Jesse Helms and two of the most rabidly reactionary institutions in politics today: the Wall Street Journal 's editorial page and a reptilian Cold War vestige called the Center for Security Policy).

  • Bounty hunters' privileges are a vestige of British common law . Since the Middle Ages, courts have appointed custodians for defendants awaiting trial.

  • In Artemisia s.l ., the typical limb of the Anthemideae-type ray florets are reduced to a membranous vestige, giving the impression that the small capitula are composed only of disk florets, referred to as disciform capitula (inflorescence) by Bremer and Humphries [ 2 ] . In other members of the genus, the ray flowers are absent, thus the capitulum is composed only of disk florets, i.e ., discoid.


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