However, the controversy surrounding GM foods has so far prevented these ideas from taking hold.
But 600 miles west in Texas a drought was taking hold and wildfires raged.
These directives are taking hold across the agencies and real improvements are being made.
The macro and micro economic measures taken by China appear to be taking hold.
Helicopter and ground operations aimed at taking hold of "key terrain" began early Friday, said Maj.
Despite the brutal campaign of intimidation being waged, Iraqis are taking hold of their country.
And then a recession started taking hold, and folks were seeing job losses and facing new hardships.
Keeping a strong immune system is important for preventing other "opportunistic" infections, such as tuberculosis, taking hold.
Increasingly, though, the same politics of fear is taking hold outside of troubled and newly flush oil states.
Yet just behind the gloom, significant and positive trends are taking hold, causing the storms to start dissipating.
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The blunt realisation is taking hold that the French might well say no.
This model is already taking hold in Uganda, Mongolia, Burkina Faso and Malawi.
Now that SMS is taking off, a new data-service wireless-application protocol, or WAP, is taking hold for digital cellular networks.
Reform is taking hold in many societies that are eager to join in the progress and prosperity of our times.
Abilify, a schizophrenia medicine launched in the fall, seems to be taking hold, with 4% of new prescriptions each week.
Second, the suspicion is taking hold that he is approaching the second term with a clear eye on elections ahead.
The changes in workplaces and schools are taking hold, said Kristie Rauter, community health improvement planner for Wood County Health Department.
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They also, according to Hans Elwing of the University of Gothenburg, prevent barnacle colonies from taking hold by stunting their growth.
After taking hold of Pennsylvania and a clutch of Northeastern states early in the evening, Obama grabbed a lead he never relinquished.
Rio's quotas may now be scaled back (to 20% for blacks and 20% for public-school students) but the principle is taking hold.
Hope that, from the ashes, some "green shoots" are slowly taking hold.
And a fledgling democracy is taking hold, as President Obama announced that all U.S troops will be withdrawn by the end of 2011.
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Multibillion-dollar campaigns to guarantee jobs or incomes for those left behind by national booms are now taking hold in the biggest markets of Asia.
So I think there is a sense that the beginnings of stabilization are taking hold and hopefully the worst job loss is behind us.
Meanwhile, the agreement forged to end the weeks of fighting in the capital's Sadr City is taking hold, government officials and witnesses said.
Rigidities are taking hold in the political process, making an acceptable compromise that holds out any hope for advancing reform and democratization ever more problematic.
Still more of us are prepared to put our bodies on the line to oppose the backward, far-right ideological vision taking hold in our state.
They had come forward in northern Italy in the Renaissance and now they were taking hold in what we think of as a state-sized entity.
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The aim is to give the body a head start in fending the virus off to stop it overpowering the immune system and taking hold.
But they were also aristocrats, creatures of their time fearful of what they considered the excessive democracy taking hold in the states in the 1780s.
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