He went into the living room without switching on any lights, and telephoned his cook.
That means switching on genes relevant to a particular function, and switching off the others.
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There was a curious intimacy between her and Anton Kruppev, in this matter of switching on lights.
Switching on the Regent Street lights in London will be a week earlier this year, on 7 November.
He blamed some of the customer switching on rival power suppliers offering attractive introductory deals to lure customers.
The small robot can even turn appliances on and off via remote control, switching on the dishwasher or the VCR.
If you are really gentle with the accelerator, you can reach highway speeds without ever switching on the gas engine.
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You can't criticise a book without opening the cover any more than you can criticise a TV programme without switching on the box.
Since March, Forbes readers have been switching on their webcams, watching Super Bowl ads, and seeing their smiles instantly plotted on line graphs.
Future Iraqi governments would know from the get-go that they'd have to practice good fiscal discipline and couldn't resort to switching on the printing presses.
Pleasantly excited, a little nervous, Hadley went about switching on lights.
More people now use their tablet or smartphone in the bedroom for late-night video viewing rather than switching on the tube, according to a new survey.
Further attempts involved switching on the motors while spinning Galileo on its axis, and also when it reached the point of its maximum acceleration around Jupiter.
"The fifth base is like a switch - switching on the genes and making cells healthy or diseased, " Alex Olek, the chief executive of Epigenomics, told the BBC.
Switching on the car's "Sport" mode only recalibrates the lousiness.
The pieces of scenery are activated by switching on and off so-called passthrough transistors that control the flow of electronic signals from one part of the chip to another.
Switching on radar, or an anti-aircraft gun firing a single salvo, now brings down a hail of bombs on anything deemed threatening, from command bunkers to radar stations, and even anti-ship missiles.
Sunderland-born, Jeffries became the first boxer ever to bring an Olympic medal back to the city earlier this year - an honour which saw him handed the responsibility of switching on the city's Christmas lights.
This energy-starved nation rolled out the red carpet for their American guests by switching on the streetlights and lighting monuments along the route from the concert hall to the hotel where the orchestra was staying.
Its staff of biologists and astrophysicists uses pattern-recognition software to get a clear picture of how all these genes are switching on and off, literally following how the genetic code is creating and recreating the body.
Further to the 50 towns and cities 4GEE is already live in now, EE has also committed to switching on at least 30 more by June, bringing the total to 80 towns and cities by the summer.
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"Increasing the nation's use of natural gas for electricity generation could result in adverse economic consequences, " the report said, noting that natural gas prices are fickle and that fuel switching on a large scale would require regulators to approve more pipeline and storage capacity.
HERC2 has no effect on eye color, but it contains an unexpressed segment of DNA that is needed for the switching on of a nearby gene called OCA2, as demonstrated by newly published work by Robert-Jan Palstra and others at Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
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Nasi Lemak Antarabangsa has a legion of devoted followers, many of whom turn up early (the place opens at 7.45 p.m. and closes at 11 a.m.) and sit patiently at plastic-covered tables, waiting for the management to shed light on matters by switching on the fluorescent tubes overhead.
Whether living in a Cheung Kong apartment, switching on a Fortress appliance powered by Hong Kong Electric, buying groceries at Park 'N Shop or toiletries at Watson's, listening to Metro Radio, or, soon, connecting via a PCCW-HKT line, people in the Special Administrative Region are a captive market.
Given that Windows Phone is all about the glance and go nature, having to spend a few moments thinking about switching the device on, or turning it and then switching it on, reduces the effectiveness of the software.
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Though the answer to this question can vary from one region of the country to another, the most plausible answer is lack of competition on the supply side and high switching costs on the demand side.
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"We then leave only one air conditioner on all day at 28 degrees because changing the temperature or switching it on and off uses more electricity, " she adds.
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The two controls on top are all you need to get the essential jobs done with this device, a button for switching it on and off (and taking stills) and the sliding record switch -- this set-up also means you can physically feel if it's recording, even when you can't see it.
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McConnell said some Democrats have been "whispering in our ears" about switching sides on a cloture vote.
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