Sentence examples for as extant from inspiring English sources

There are about 230 recorded as "extant", the majority (147) in north America.

That the historicity of this advent cannot be verified does not gainsay evidence such as extant inscriptions on stone crosses and on copper plates that Christians have been on the Malabar Coast since the 2nd or 3rd century.

But the Supreme Court has indicated it regards the cases as extant because the former attorney general, Malik Qayyum, acted in a personal capacity, not as an official, when he told the Swiss that Pakistan no longer wanted to prosecute Mr. Zardari.

This ancient group gave rise to dinosaurs, as well as extant groups such as crocodiles and birds.

Yet this is less likely than with common alternatives in the literature: "architectural works", perhaps wedded to creator intent, status as extant or integral whole, or aesthetic ranking; or "buildings", certainly wedded to built, hence concrete, structures.

However, as extant members of all living lineages have the same age (as distance from the last common ancestor), thus their expected default complexity would be the same: if it is not, something must have happened to the individual lineages and this something cannot be simply predicted from the position in the phylogenetic tree of the nodes at which these lineages diverged.

However, the "mudskipper-as-extant-model system-hypothesis" is still controversial.

This must include the impact of extant as well as planned wind turbines in the same region in order to be biologically meaningful.

Vmusc for each dinosaur species was calculated as for extant species, using published reconstructions of EMA and lfasc [40], [48]; as in our extant sample, active muscle volume for the metatarsophalangeal joint in our dinosaur sample was excluded (see [40], [48] for discussion).

Carpal spurs and knobs are also known from other extant as well as extinct birds.

As with extant avian terrestrial stalkers, the generalised bills of azhdarchids would enable them to have a broad carnivorous diet comprised of relatively small vertebrates and large invertebrates, possibly supplemented with fruit [6] and carrion (see above).