Sentence examples for maintain viable from inspiring English sources

Female bats, for instance, maintain viable sperm inside themselves for months.

But it increasingly accepts the notion that countries need to maintain viable social safety nets to protect the most vulnerable.

All three states have weak plans — not one has made a firm, enforceable commitment to maintain viable wolf populations — but Wyoming's is the worst.

For example, the groups said, the current forest rules, put in place in 1982, require that the forest be managed to maintain "viable populations" of all native fish and wildlife.

Farmers need to be encouraged to farm fewer animals in a more sustainable way and maintain viable livelihoods, while retailers and manufactures should start 'choice editing' by promoting plant foods, educating customers and phase out imports of air freighted products from rich or middle income countries.

On land areas of the extreme High Arctic, above 80° N, which include only parts of Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere islands in the Canadian Arctic, northernmost Greenland, northern portions of Svalbard, and Franz Josef Land, only a few mammal species are able to maintain viable populations.

The Bush administration changed the rule last year so it required a framework of protection, rather than maintaining viable populations of wildlife.

At stake was a provision of the National Forest Management Act that required maintaining viable populations of species that indicate the health of an ecosystem, like spotted owl.

The Obama administration's proposed rules improve on the Bush rules and are full of high-minded promises about maintaining "viable" animal populations.

The vertical design addresses ptosis while maintaining viable skin flaps.

Our results indicate that most of the selected species maintained viable populations in the present situation.