Sentence examples for divergent pressures from inspiring English sources

The moves underscore the divergent pressures British Telecommunications is facing: it must sell assets to reduce debt that is approaching $44 billion, while it is forced to spend to establish itself in the mobile-phone business.

The battle between divergent pressure groups concerning who should possess jurisdiction over accounting work is explored, and the solution to this problematic is found to connect with the nature of a central government accounting system that was itself undergoing significant change.

Barley is a crucial part of household subsistence at high elevations, and strong farmer selection to maximize productivity in each location could drive this divergent pressure.

Non-divergent pressure and displacement are obtained simultaneously through a few numbers of iterations.

Alternatively, for differentiation in sympatry or parapatry, geographic ranges of diverging populations may overlap or abut, but divergent ecological pressures within the overall distribution are more likely to drive the formation of reproductive isolation.

Behavioural variation in a single pollinator species can impose divergent selective pressures on plant species and drive adaptive divergence.

Environmental features differ dramatically between the two spawning habitats, creating divergent selection pressures on early life history stages.

Abiotic factors such as groundwater level, affect water uptake patterns independently of plant growth form, reinforcing vegetation gradients by exerting divergent selective pressures across topographic gradients.

When populations get isolated in areas with variable environmental conditions, for example as a consequence of range contraction, divergent selection pressures for different populations can lead to local adaptation (Chen et al. 2012).

This is consistent with the expectation that varieties sampled from a local geographic region would be inherently less diverse since they are grown in a similar set of environments, whereas germplasm from a wider range of geographic and ecologically distinct regions will contain greater genetic diversity due to divergent selection pressures.

We also found evidence of divergent selection pressures among groups of bats with different sensory modalities based on vision and echolocation.