Sentence examples for directed to maintaining from inspiring English sources

Jeffrey P. Minear, a Justice Department lawyer, tried to emphasize that "Microsoft's conduct was not simply a series of isolated unrelated events, but rather a coordinated course of anticompetitive conduct, and that conduct was directed to maintaining its monopoly power".

Also, the Chinese case is self-consciously directed to maintaining or enhancing face, whereas purchase of cosmetics and other appearance-enhancing goods and services is directed to achieving an identity of a particular type that enhances the person's competitive appeal to others.

Additional attention was directed to maintaining patients' electrolyte balance, and patients were hydrated in preparation for contrast angiography.

In furtherance of this policy, federal agencies are directed to maintain adequate inventories of the property under their control and to identify excess property for transfer to other agencies able to use it.

Research plan included the following sequence of tests: 1. Tilt-test is capable to evaluate the activity of the sympathetic nervous system directed to maintain the hemodynamic parameters despite a decrease in diastolic refilling due to the reduction of venous return [35, 36].

The selection directed to maintain CGI sequence properties is not strong enough to overcome a strong selection at protein level applied to non-synonymous substitutions.

This type of interaction includes practices directed to maintain within human-made environments useful plants that occurred in those areas before the environments were transformed by humans.

Additionally, since the prognosis of these patients is dismal, and most of them died within 1 year after diagnosis of metastatic disease, the policy of treatment should be directed to maintain their quality of life.

Selective in situ management is directed to maintain (or even increase) maternal genotypes with favourable morphological features and this activity in theory may increase the probability of crosses among such favourable genotypes and the occurrence of favourable phenotypes in progenies.

Because the prognosis of these patients is poor and most of them die within 1 year after the diagnosis of metastatic disease, the policy of treatment should be directed to maintain their quality of life.

However, early management with fluid challenges, dobutamine and blood transfusion directed to maintain the oxygen extraction ratio estimated from ScvO2 values at levels <27%, both during major abdominal surgery and postoperatively, significantly reduced the number of organ failures and duration of hospital stay [ 53].