Sentence examples for replacing itself from inspiring English sources

Jail cells and coffins were claiming a subculture that was not replacing itself or reaching the next generation.

The most graceful way is to take a third of the old canes out each year, so the shrub is constantly replacing itself with new growth.

It is in a race with time: its population is rapidly ageing and not replacing itself, its crazy tradition of female infanticide and selective abortion of females means there is a superfluity of males so that girls are being kidnapped as brides.

Perhaps an amoeba's existence ends when it splits, replacing itself with two amoebas, and the existence of chlamydomonas ends when pairs of them fuse to form a zygote.

Many salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest are already threatened with extinction, so the effects of climate on absolute fitness (i.e. a population's capacity for replacing itself) warrant conservation concern, and must be considered in the context of a web of natural and anthropogenic agents of selection (Waples et al. 2008).

We explored the hypothesis that the larch forest was more likely to replace itself rapidly ("self-replacement succession") in areas of low-severity burn, but was more likely to be replaced by an early-seral community of broadleaf trees ("relay succession") in areas of high-severity burn.

In the United States, the birth rate has fallen steadily since the baby boom, from 3.6 births per woman in 1960 to 2.0 today, or just under the replacement level, at which a population replaces itself from one generation to the next.

In the early 1990s, China's fertility rate fell below what demographers call the replacement level, or the number of births needed for one generation to replace itself.

A recent report from WRI estimates that achieving replacement level fertility (the rate of fertility at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next) in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2050 would reduce food demand by around 600tn kilocalories (kcal) per year by the mid-century.

It requires about three months for a whole nail to replace itself.

That is roughly half the rate at which a population replaces itself.