Liu et al. (2012) provided an overall definition for resilience as capacity of water resources system to maintain it essential functions as before during an event of unexpected stresses and disturbances.
Eben Amstrong,a biomedical engineer, not only inspects and maintains equipment before it ships, he travels to recipient hospitals several times a year to train people to use and maintain it.
Christie announced Baroni's resignation a week later, maintaining it had been planned long before the controversy.
There are companies that have embraced this simple truth and used it to maintain trust before, during and, we're sure, after this economic downturn.
Over the following two days, the cyclone's structure fluctuated, temporarily featuring an eye, before it maintained its organisation and intensified further on 11 January.
The angle of repose — the steepest angle that loose rocks can abide before they start to move, the steepest angle the soil can maintain before it starts to fail — will vary locally according to the mechanics of shape and strength.
In all tests, the equipment maintained its functionality before, during and after the perturbation in the supply voltage.
It's going to take a while, he maintains, before it stops sounding so conventional, so constrained, so heterosexual.
In calling evolution a "make-believe story," for instance, she maintains that "before Darwin, the accepted explanation for the chain of life was design".
At a summit-level meeting in Beirut in March, Arab leaders adopted a Saudi proposal to commit to normal relations with Israel once it withdrew to the borders it maintained before the 1967 war.
