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In thickly settled nations with few dormant resources, a long war usually produces industrial disorganization and financial exhaustion.
But it is estimated that it could be responsible for 10,000 deaths a year by 2020, as symptoms lie dormant for decades.
This happens because the virus lies dormant in local nerves until reactivated by factors such as stress or menstruation.
But although symptoms can lie dormant for 70 years, on average incurable mesothelioma takes between 10 and 30 years to develop.
Recent research has indicated that the disease can lie dormant for up to 40 years before symptoms show.
Anthrax, a serious wasting disease, can lie dormant for many years so the risk still exists.
The two major pillars for revitalizing the dormant economy are corporate capital spending and private consumption.
Those late-August rains aroused the life force in every dormant weed seed in Western Washington.
In early spring before growth begins, spray a combination of dormant oil and lime sulfur.
After pruning but before flowers and leaves appear, spray fruit trees with a mixture of dormant oil and lime sulfur or oil and copper.
This is most clear in rosaceous fruit trees that go dormant in preparation for winter, and not in response to environmental cues.
The cotton-flax crop rotation provides producers an alternative crop for traditionally dormant fields.
I was five then, and had never been back, but I wanted to find that house, see if it would awake long dormant memories.
Sentiments will run deep awakening dormant feelings that were thought to be successfully repressed.
Even though she didn't need to breathe, Akasha took a deep one to calm the awakening feelings that had lain dormant for so long.
Buy dormant tubers in winter, either by mail from a specialty nursery or from a nursery or garden center.
Currently a third of the world's population carry the bacillus, albeit in a dormant form.
By contrast, in treated dormant seed, the tegmen appears intact and not expanded.
The best time to prune a fig bush is late February or early March, while it is still dormant.
Ananas is a terrestrial genus, but it grows continuously, whereas most terrestrial orchids have distinct active and dormant phases.
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Her will seems to be roused there by the side of the marital will which is dormant.
The unmatured powers lying dormant had been aroused to full growth by the indwelling Spirit of God.
Latent psi-power, dormant and unused and unneeded and uninteresting for aeons.
Yet she wondered if the instinct were not dormant, needing but the suggestion.
But intuition, even if apparently dormant, may be cultivated by practice in these divinatory processes.
This oospore, or resting spore, may remain dormant in this state within the tissues of the foster plant for some months.
The dormant bodies of the great slugs glowed perceptibly brighter as they fed, and the pulsations of opalescence quickened.
Before this, however, there were symptoms of the reawakening of a dormant idea.
Possibly the doctor's prediction of insanity had lain dormant in some brain cell from which it was now emerging to frighten me.
The red corpuscle, his father's gift, though it lay dormant, subconsciously erected barriers.
Until that period, the reproductive system should lie dormant in its undeveloped state.
The brute in him recognized the dormant passions of his grandfather, now rekindling.
The cions should have been cut before this time, when they were perfectly dormant.
The softwood cutting is made from tissue which is still growing, or at least from that which is not dormant.
Thus it would appear that the artistic spirit, more or less dormant in Solutrean times, was revived.
But she had faint, ineradicable prejudices, and instincts not quite dormant.
Pray give her some stimulant to arouse her dormant faculties, if only for a moment.
The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.
Applied direct to the dormant buds of the sweet cherry, however, it proved toxic, as the buds never developed.
Like all other properties, this of luckiness may be cultivated or let to lie dormant, may be increased or diminished.
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