"apex loan: Loan whereby IBRD lends money to an apex development financial unit which onlends it to participating financial institutions which, in turn, onlend it to industrial companies."
Slavery would not be fully abolished in France for another 30 years after the painting's debut, and yet here we have Jean Charles, the only black survivor, at the very apex of the painting signaling, for help.
And when all of a sudden you throw this, apex predator, a big one, you know a 200 lb male, it becomes an issue and we're going to have to learn how to deal with that.
It can take out one of our apex predators which are alligators and crocodiles, and then they'll take down some of the other native animals that are small mammals: some of the rats, the mice, the marsh bunnies.
And when all of a sudden you throw this apex predator, a big one a 200 lb male, it becomes an issue and we're going to have to learn how to deal with that.
The septum is formed during development as this muscular ridge of tissue grows upward from the apex, or the tip, and then fuses with a thinner membranous region coming down from the endocardial cushions.
In the past couple million years, great white sharks and Orcas have taken over the roles of apex predator, but these much smaller carnivores couldn't hunt the larger whales that Megalodon was likely able to eat.
And yet today, there are just about as many of these apex predators pacing the backyards of Texas as there are roaming the wild in the whole rest of the world.
Rewilding, as I said, about bringing back the ecosystem and for lions being an apex predator quite clearly one of the main roles is the role of predation.
As an apex predator at the top of the food chain, they help keep certain animal populations in check, which in turn helps plants, trees and other wildlife thrive.
A Pancoast tumor in the right lung apex can also compress a large vein called the superior vena cava which drains blood from the head, upper chest, and arms.