Sentence examples for capacity for withstanding from inspiring English sources

Here's a snippet that is particularly relevant: Human communities will always be in harm's way even as we improve our technological and societal capacity for withstanding threats — either natural or of our own making.

While the hypothetical nonevolving populations went extinct for harvest rates exceeding 0.5 year−1, the evolving populations acquired a capacity for withstanding considerably higher harvest rates.

Sure Robert de Castella was superhuman – he first discovered his boundless capacity for withstanding pain when he lost a shoe in a junior race and then once he'd retrieved it, sprinted to make up his place – but his charms were of the down to earth variety.

Higher incomes often represent a greater capacity to prepare for, withstand, and recover from environmental disasters, perhaps fostering a greater sense that nature has a more stable balance.

Nadira must have enough for her month-long sojourn and Lop Nur naan, noted for its longevity and capacity to withstand the damp air of her island retreat, would be just the thing.

The long-term repression of these genes would have important consequences for the plant's capacity to withstand biotic stress under environmental conditions.

Assuming that neutral genetic variation is a proxy for adaptive genetic variation, this finding highlights the importance of standing genetic variation for a population's capacity to withstand environmental stress.

The result is better health for the children and a greater capacity to withstand drought.

Patients without comorbid diseases might have had a better capacity to withstand the inciting insult, making it easier for them to respond to appropriate therapy.

Lines selected for heat shock resistance rapidly evolved the capacity to withstand heat shock in the native environment without any initial exposure to high temperatures, and early exposure to high temperatures did not lead to further increases in heat resistance.

Due to concerns about the original dam capacity to withstand floods and a projected increase in demand for water by the agricultural industry in the region, Wyangala Dam was upgraded and enlarged from 1961 to 1971.