No virtue is acquired in an instant, but by degrees, step by step.

These requirements are derived using a primarily top-down approach in-line with the ODP viewpoints framework.

He was able to organize the event on a shoestring.

The fact that for the greater part of its length the angle-shoot has the same structure as a normal stem is what would be expected; it does not, in my opinion, prove that the former is not a transformed rhizophore.