Sentence examples for opportunities for avoiding from inspiring English sources

Given the time lag between landscape and biodiversity change [39], [59], however, opportunities for avoiding regime-shifts through management and restoration activities are likely to exist for a period of time after the initial human impact, and before extinctions occur.

This is contrary to human intuition because the opposite approach, of attaching a mechanism to a described adverse event, provides a good opportunity for avoiding or ameliorating the event, and accordingly we instinctively give mechanistic explanations quite a lot or even excessive weight.

Since food production requires about one-tenth of the energy consumed annually in the U.S., the energy embedded in wasted food might also correspond to a significant portion of energy consumption in the U.S. and represents an opportunity for avoided energy consumption.

GPs frame the need for change in a positive way: as an opportunity for improvement rather than for avoiding risks.

Opportunity costs in 53 districts for avoiding charcoal and agricultural expansion ranged between US$1.900 – 13.40 tCO2 (median US$3.90tCO2O2), indicating the high variability of opportunity costs within the country.

When the Blair government introduced tax breaks for the film industry in the late 1990s, financiers who had previously ignored British movies began to pump money into film investment schemes – but the suspicion lingered that many were motivated more by opportunities for deferring or avoiding tax than by any prospect of winning Baftas and Oscars.

Often I am criticized for missing high-return opportunities for want of avoiding driving our portfolio volatility to uncomfortable levels.

Even though seasonal vaccination does not protect against infection with avian influenza, it can potentially reduce opportunities for reassortment by avoiding the simultaneous infection of humans with avian and human influenza viruses.

And many of us look for opportunities to avoid eye-contact at all costs.

Viewing an urban water system as a complex adaptive system provides new opportunities for analysis and avoids some critical simplifications.

The school social and physical environments provide potential opportunities for children to avoid extended periods of sedentary time such as active transportation to and from school, large campus size or playground areas, sports equipment and sporting facilities, recess periods, lunch breaks, and physical education classes [ 15– 15].