As Cuvier founded the palaeontology of mammals and reptiles, so Louis Agassiz's epoch-making works Recherches sur les poissons fossiles (1833-1845) laid the secure foundations of palaeichthyology, and were followed by Christian Heinrich Pander's (1794-1865) classic memoirs on the fossil fishes of Russia.
Blair must not pander to the demands of his buddy George Bush.
But then, you ca n't pander to the masses, can you, because that way lies itchy green jumpers.
Did Christ pander to all their fleshly lusts to see with their eyes rather than to have faith?
From his ascetic standpoint the revocation of the edict could only pander to drunkenness and immorality.
He encouraged the amour between the Trojan prince and his niece Cressida; and the word "pander" has passed into modern language as the common title of a lovers' go-between in the worst sense.
Instead, marketers should tell " great stories " about their products that pander to consumers ' self-regard and worldview.
Its designs do not pander to the tastes of high-designers; therefore, consumers looking to purchase hot-off-the runway couture shoes must look elsewhere.
More affluent parents may simply prefer to have all of their child's clothing custom made because current fashion trends don't always pander to their tastes, or they prefer their child to have flawlessly fitted garments.
The school of Cuvier was lamentably deficient in embryologists; and it was only in the course of the first thirty years of the igth century that Prevost and Dumas in France, and, later on, Ddllinger, Pander, von Bar, Rathke, and Remak in Germany, founded modern embryology; and, at the same time, proved the utter incompatibility of the hypothesis of evolution as formulated by Bonnet and Haller with easily demonstrable facts.