Taken together, such attacks are, if not actual acts of cyberwarfare, certainly precursors to it.
Colorectal polyps, which are precursors to colon cancer, were known to over produce COX-2.
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But there were precursors, such as the facsimile gizmo Scottish inventor Alexander Bain devised in 1842.
Mr Dolci did not really lead this slow process, but he was one of its precursors.
What Google has that its precursors do not is an existing business, firmly established in advertising.
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Polyps are abnormal tissue growths of the mucus membrane that are frequently identified as precursors of cancer.
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Much of the time in tech, however, games are precursors to other businesses.
Nerve-cell precursors can turn into two types of brain cell besides nerve cells.
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Both could be precursors to the tightest race in a Hex since it was instituted for the 1998 World Cup Finals.
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But high-tech militaries are developing or have already deployed precursors that illustrate the push toward greater autonomy for machines on the battlefield.
Fortunately, for such startups, there are a number of precursors to paid customers, such as: trial users, freemium customers and qualified prospects.
The researchers were led to this idea when they scanned the stem-cell precursors of nerve cells with a device called a gene chip.
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This process occurs primarily in your liver, but also in your kidneys, and makes use of various substances that are precursors to glucose.
The researchers' combinatorial technique was not to make a separate cell on the wafer for each combination of precursors, as Dr Xiang did.
Infra-red observations, which can see deep into Jupiter's atmosphere, suggest that the merged storm's structure differs significantly from that of its two precursors.
The central element will be a naphtha cracker, a stainless steel vessel that under intense heat and pressure breaks long hydrocarbons into plastics precursors.
It is impossible to forecast the performance of those deals, but they will not be hard-pressed to beat out their precursors from challenging 2011.
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W. Turner's watercolors and their proto-abstract sensibility as precursors to Sargent's, which often include their own nondescriptive forms, scattering and reforming themselves into depictions of places and things.
Beck snapped pictures of the crude stone shelters that Alpine Club members had begun building high in the mountains the precursors to the helicopter-serviced "huts" you find these days.
Using the stem cells, researchers have developed cells called oligodendrocytes, which are precursors to nerve cells and which produce a protective layer around nerve cells known as myelin.
If all this talk of carbon fullerenes, RNA precursors and mass-giving bosons is hurting your head, take a break, run to the bathroom and find out just how much you pee.
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Thus far no effective means of monitoring chemical weapons production has been developed, in part because there are so many commercial chemical facilities that could be utilized for producing chemical weapons precursors.
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There were precursors to Hammurabi's laws, explains Dr Frances Reynolds, Assyriology expert at Oxford University, but the stele and 130, 000 clay tablet documents from the period establish the king as a "fantastic administrator".
It goes from the Precursors to the Forerunners to the Covenant to the Flood, and by the end, you should have a bit of a clearer picture about the grand story of the series.
Both can be precursors to new job hunts.
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Overspeculation in real estate construction, specifically commercial properties in major markets like New York, Los Angeles and Dallas were ominous precursors of excessive financial leverage employed by operators, abetted by the reserve city banking community.
The closing of borders would deny access to many items made abroad that are needed during a pandemic, including masks and gloves, electrical circuits for ventilators and communications gear and certain pharmaceuticals and their precursors.
The zeitgeist was chewy with space-flavored nuggets, morsels of futuristic design, precursors of a Tomorrow whose confident glow was visible beyond the horizon of all that was less wonderful, provided one had eyes to see it.
With them, unavoidably, have come numerous global financial crisis (the 2008 meltdown had several Internet-borne precursors, he notes), attacks on our privacy, impoverishment of opportunities in much of the developed world and ecological ruin in the developing world.
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