Sentence examples for obtain firm from inspiring English sources

Gradual historical changes in the incidence and prevalence of particular disorders have often been described, but it is very difficult to obtain firm evidence that such changes have actually occurred.

That left no time to obtain firm, detailed assurances from Chinese officials on how they would treat Mr. Chen, a blind lawyer and activist who had been exposed to years of house arrest and beatings in his home village in eastern China and last month escaped to the United States Embassy in Beijing.

Its tapered body can obtain firm and stable early fixation in any bone quality.

For this reason, it is difficult to obtain firm conclusions about the frequency of IEH based on epidemiological studies.

Bruijnzeel ([1990]) cautioned that more rigorous work is required to obtain firm answers on the relationship between reforestation and dry season flows.

Since its epileptic nature can be documented only with ictal EEG recording and simultaneous intravenous antiepileptic administrations, it is difficult to obtain firm conclusions about the frequency of IEH on epidemiological studies.

The Commons science committee has said the government should obtain firmer assurances from Pfizer over its longterm commitment to the UK before allowing its takeover of AstraZeneca to go ahead.

In order to obtain firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), I resort to standard estimation techniques, namely, the Wooldridge (2009) GMM approach to implement the Olley and Pakes (1996) and Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) identification strategy.

This allowed us to obtain firmer conclusions by excluding the constant possibility that different errors might be globally annihilated under the selected experimental conditions.

Results showed that by modulating the crosslinking density of the gelatin microscaffolds it is possible to guide the process of collagen deposition and assembly within the extracellular space and match the processes of scaffold degradation, cell traction and tissue maturation to obtain firmer collagen network able to withstand the effect of contraction.

It would also be of great interest to estimate ϕ3, the coefficient of the statistical interaction between exploitation and recovery rate (Day et al. 2007), and to obtain firmer estimates of the other coefficients in a better-powered analysis in future.