Sentence examples for inimical environment from inspiring English sources

Slow-motion running, intended to convey the nightmarish quality of contending with a suddenly inimical environment, came off as though the shiny-haired stars of Baywatch had decided to have a gallop through the Somme, especially when performed by a muddy-faced but generically attractive corps de ballet in trimly fitting uniforms.

Soil can be an inimical environment and the production of antimicrobials represents a strategy for clearing niches of competing microorganisms or limiting their growth [ 141].

Schistosomes undergo dramatic changes in gross morphology and cellular composition and specialization during their transition from free-swimming cercariae in freshwater to mature adult worms, which reside in the ostensibly inimical environment of the mammalian host blood stream [ 2].

He dismissed as "totally false" the notion that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict feeds an environment inimical to U.S. interests.

To the Editor: The tendency to assign blame when mistakes occur is inimical to an environment in which we hope learning and improvement will take place.

Explanations had been offered--the postevent environment is inimical to species recovery, scientists speculated, or it takes millions of years for an adequate food web to develop.

Humanity has fractured: Earth is ruled by a totalitarian religious regime that has banned genetic modification and is bent on reclaiming autonomous colony worlds; Will was born on a colony whose environment is so inimical that genetic modification was the only option.

We are mindful that the GV of the frog oocyte and the metaphase II arrested mammalian oocyte represent environments that are inimical to cell division, thus the resumption of cell division may not be a good read-out of epigenetic rejuvenation of senescent cells after conditioning in GV and metaphase II arrested oocytes.

No matter how inimical to life, the physical components of environments are relatively predictable elements to which adaptation is often comparatively easy, if costly.

Extremophiles are Earth organisms that live in niche environments under severe conditions generally considered inimical to life.

With varying degrees of success, parasites or pathogens inimical to the foreign species have been introduced into the environment.