"Proposals that would involve, in effect, a kind of designated burden-sharing on how reductions should be split up among countries of the world has extremely little chance of political viability," he said, speaking to reporters last month.
Presumably, the chance of evolving viability-related incompatibility should be higher than that of evolving fertility-related incompatibility, because there are more genes involved in clonal growth than in sporulation.
The "Class Matters" series and Thomas L. Friedman's columns about the "flat" world illustrate an increasingly clear fact: the life chances of our people and the viability of our economy now depend on widespread, successful participation in higher education, with no compromise on quality.
However, sexual selection based on genetic benefits is controversial, and there is limited unambiguous support for the notion that choosy or polyandrous females can increase the chances of producing offspring with high viability.
At 25 weeks, Dr. Baker said, Alexis had a much better chance than those born on the cusp of viability, 23 or 24 weeks.
The microsatellites also indicated that this group of pandas has not yet become significantly inbred, giving the population "a better chance of long-term viability," says Wei.
Allen+Philp designed a seven-story tower for the purpose of giving the new hotel owners a chance of greater financial viability.
Putting the time and work into research and your course of action will allow you to assess your business idea's viability, improve your chances of getting funding and prevent you from taking unnecessary risks.
Doctors at the Houston hospital told Ms. Miller and her husband, Mark, that the fetus was at the very edge of viability, 23 weeks old, the minimum age for having any chance of survival outside the womb.
Advances in technology have pushed back the limit of viability to about 23 weeks, at which point a baby has a 30 to 50percentt chance of survival, and a serious risk of major health complications, including chronic lung disease or other complications of organ immaturity.
Factors that increase the chances of bipartisan support include, sound science, economic viability, industry support, public support and common sense.
