Sentence examples for opportunistic exploitation from inspiring English sources

"If it was purely selfish, opportunistic exploitation, I think it would be unacceptable and unwatchable.

"What you see instead is lots of ad-hoc, opportunistic exploitation and deals cut among the Burma Timber Enterprise [a government body], state governments, and border logging interests," he says.

Due to its opportunistic exploitation of a wide variety of food sources, the raven may provide a more complete image of the fauna in the surrounding area of deposition than owl or small carnivore prey assemblages.

Prehistoric human groups able to subsist by opportunistic exploitation of mammoths or mastodons could have taken advantage of such information to be efficient foragers and rapid dispersers into new ranges.

However, the concrete and glass building attracted huge controversy when it was finished, partly because of its size and style but also because it became a symbol of opportunistic exploitation and a focus for protest against the greed of profit-driven developers during the 1960s office boom.

The latter not only reduces vegetation cover and diversity but also disrupts seasonal livestock movement necessary for opportunistic exploitation of spatially and temporally distributed rangeland resources (Byakagaba 2005).

Opportunistic exploitations of the book's success - stories of Leonardo as the forger of the Turin shroud, as a Gnostic or Cathar heretic and so on - also serve to highlight the way that the writing of history is not generally regarded as a serious professional business, dependent on responsible ways of handling evidence.

To obtain a better insight on the local spectrum environment, as well as identify frequency bands which are most appropriate and challenging for opportunistic secondary exploitation, we first conducted a wideband spectrum occupancy survey in the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece.

This system is based on opportunistic and seasonal exploitation of natural resources (Scoones 1995; Marty et al. 2006).

Now, as the Papers reveal, it is western governments that continue to tolerate and facilitate the speculative, opportunistic and often illegal exploitation of a largely privately owned, opaquely operated global financial system that woefully lacks strong, independent controls, an agreed rule book and effective supranational regulation.

It employs an opportunistic breeding strategy for exploitation of favourable but unpredictable breeding opportunities [29], [41], and therefore has a very low breeding site fidelity [42], [43], [44] which is indicative of high amounts of gene flow possibly swamping local selection [45].