Sentence examples for potential to withstand from inspiring English sources

Thus, maintaining genetic diversity within natural populations can maximize their potential to withstand and adapt to biotic and abiotic pressures (Jump et al. 2009).

Retention of immense genetic diversity is not only significant in terms of evolutionary potential to withstand diverse selection regimes, but also has important implications in rice breeding to furnish new genes for crop improvement, e.g. abiotic stress tolerance, or pest- or disease-resistance genes (Frankel and Soule 1981).

We propose that since the increased mucus production enhances the protective quality of the mucosal barrier, it also boosts its potential to withstand luminal aggressive components such as acid/pepsin duet, Helicobacter pylori and/or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs/aspirin, or a combination of all.

We propose that as the increased mucus production enhances the protective quality of the mucosal barrier, it also boosts its potential to withstand luminal aggressive components such as acid/pepsin duet, H. pylori and/or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs/aspirin, or a combination of all.

Hence, our fibrous porous microstructure with improved mechanical properties could introduce a potential scaffold to withstand the physiological pressure and to mimic the profile features of native extracellular matrix in a human vessel.

Microbial communities from the coastal area were more able to maintain their catabolic potential and thus to withstand these stresses.

In June 2009, President Obama called for financial firms to hold more capital to increase their ability to withstand potential losses.

Increasing the banks' capital reserves would "improve the resilience of their balance sheets and their capacity to withstand potential adverse macroeconomic shock", the central bank added.

The stronger concrete helps developers meet big-city building codes, which now require higher strength to withstand potential terrorist attacks or disasters.

The tsunami walls either should have been built higher, or the generators should have been placed on higher ground to withstand potential flooding, he said.

Those poised to withstand potential worsening of the recession — with little or no new capital — include major banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, which already swallowed multibillion-dollar losses on toxic securities and cut dividends to shore up their financial position.