Sentence examples for challenging our abilities from inspiring English sources
Widespread inheritable GM could lead to a "radical rupture" with evolutionary processes as we understand them today undermining the distinction between acquired and inheritable traits, challenging our abilities to reconstruct genetic genealogies, and even creating a new hominid species (Baylis and Robert 2006).
Since the second half of the twentieth century, sedimentation in reservoirs has been challenging our ability to maintain the storage capacity needed for water supply, flood mitigation, and hydroelectricity production, and it will continue to do so for decades to come.
The field of bioinformatics is continually expanding and challenging our ability to bridge the gap between molecular biology and computer technology.
Yet we're moving into an era of extreme weather that's challenging our ability to assess and manage risk.
We also observed that these structures are incorporated together and form part of an integrated geometric complex; they evolve in different ways where the geometric core is stable, whereas in others, it grows in proportion to the system, challenging our ability to understand all the possible component interactions.
Such deviations from ideal DFIT behavior challenge our ability to estimate formation properties reliably.
Time and entropy already challenge our ability to know the full human past.
The vast diversity of chemistry available in industrial polymers has challenged our ability to design reliable sample preparation methods.
But this year, perhaps more than any other, has challenged our ability to cling to the idea that we live in some kind of post-racial society.
In response, some members of the council are fast-tracking a game-changing piece of legislation that challenges our ability to deliver.
The increasing densification of technological opportunities and shifting consumer demand coupled with highly complex systems may ultimately challenge our ability to make decisions based on optimisation balances.
