Sentence examples for like a population from inspiring English sources

But Linda Cayot of the Galápagos Conservancy dissented, saying island species on the Galápagos have a long history of being decimated to just a few survivors that rebounded without incident — like a population of giant tortoises that chose to live in the caldera of a volcano.

Other factors helped too, like a population of high-income early adopters who appreciated not having to drive.

"Just like a population census, a large-scale cosmic census allows us to get the full picture of how a system works and behaves," explains Murayama.

But as I sat, surrounded by what looked like a population coming out of a surgical operating room, I was reminded that quite frankly, this is not the norm.

One could say that financial catastrophes do indeed represent a type of self-correction, just like a population crash in wildlife biology/ecology that wipes out more than 90% of the overpopulated species in question--but if so, they are a type of self-correction too hideous to contemplate, and far outside the framework of Smith's harmonious, self-balancing vision of the world.

In its strictest form, Lachmann's method assumes that the manuscript tradition of a text, like a population of asexual organisms, originates with a single copy; that all branchings are dichotomous; and that characteristic errors steadily accumulate in each lineage, without "cross-fertilization" between branches [13].

To account for the discrepancy between declared status and stature composition of the population, we will denote as modern-like (resp. traditional-like), a population containing a majority of short individuals (resp. tall individuals).

In healthy adults it is modestly effective in decreasing the amount of influenza-like symptoms in a population.

For instance, in [ 12], Google search queries were used to track influenza-like illness in a population.

The impact of deaths like these in a small town like Denison, with a population of just under 8,000, is brutal.

A district like Khanabad, with a population of 350,000, has just 80 police officers now, the governor of Kunduz, Muhammad Omar, said in an interview.