Is it the cell rather than the organism that is the immediate agent of assimilatory processes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Jasmine, the assimilatory power in Angel, requirestheloss of two human lives to enter the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 July 17 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows] Reference

It is also assimilatory, since ritual and spiritual traditions developed by women are seen as inferior and unworthy of perpetuation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ritual in the United States.] Reference

He advised the PWV education committee to adopt a pluralistic language model for the provicial government and legislature instead of an assimilatory model.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And no one in the whole world knows — except his housekeeper and me — that he weighs practically nothing; that he is a mere boring mass of assimilatory matter, mere clouds in clothing, niente, nefas, the most inconsiderable of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells] Reference

If we find that certain of these cells -- all of which we know to be essentially identical one with another -- have the power when separated from the others of growing and developing into new organisms, we can infer that not only such cells but also all other cells have this assimilatory power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

In this respect, theexecution is strongly reminiscent ofthe main plot-arc of Angel, Season Four,which culminates, in the penultimate episode Peace Out, in an almost identical scenario:a declaration of world peace after an alien, assimilatory force takes control on a global scale, followed by thesuccessfulapplication of a vanquishing panacea.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 July 17 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows] Reference

Within the context of both narratives, the heroes are justified for several reasons: there is no freedomto reject the change; hostility is shown to outsiders; deathsare accepted as part of the process; and in each instance, the alien/assimilatory claim that those changed are still fundamentally human is challenged by the emergence of a hive-mind, not quiteon par with, say,the Borg, but nonetheless profoundly different to the usual human experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 July 17 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows] Reference

It is the solar plexus which controls the assimilatory function in digestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantasia of the Unconscious] Reference

Accumulation of assimilatory pigments in some vinifera varieties in the Tirnavelor vineyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

The Native School Reader abounds with hortatory 'fables' which are colonising and assimilatory in intent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand] Reference

And no one in the whole world knows -- except his housekeeper and me --- that he weighs practically nothing; that he is a mere boring mass of assimilatory matter, mere clouds in clothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference

However, little is known about this enzyme in other mycobacterial species, or the role of an additional nitrogen assimilatory pathway via glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), in the mycobacteria as a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

This assimilatory change was regular, i.e., every accented long o followed by an i in the following syllable automatically developed to long ö; hence tothi “teeth” became töthi, fodian “to feed” became födian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law] Reference

Without a change in the present Greek discriminatory and assimilatory policy, it is certain that Greece "in accordance with the universal rights accepted by International law", to quote the Greek Constitution, will not be able "to strengthen peace and justice, as well as development of friendly relations among nations and countries".    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

Its mission was to train boys the way young men had been traditionally educated in Eastern Europe and, as important, to keep them away from the assimilatory pressures imposed upon youngsters by this country’s public schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orthodox Judaism in the United States.] Reference

It’s a system we simultaneously laud and resent, finding balance in the margins and grey areas: small wonder, then, that the idea of some powerful, all-encompassing assimilatory force sweeping in and wiping the slate clean both lures and terrifies.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 July 17 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows] Reference