Sentence examples for retained their basic from inspiring English sources

Despite the best efforts of the political class to drum up hostility to refugees, the majority of Australians have, quite remarkably, retained their basic decency.

Although slight differences were observed among individual sheets, overall, the cell sheets retained their basic structure of pavement-like cells distributed within well-developed extracellular matrices.

They may have undergone changes over the years, but generally they retain their basic meanings.

Or he may "sublimate" the infantile wishes; that is to say, convert their original sexual aim into a culturally and socially valuable end while retaining their basic energy.

And there are shots of the Empire's TIE fighters and the Rebels' X-wings, both spiffed up a bit but retaining their basic designs and flight patterns.

This adds great geometric flexibility to these fundamental objects of computer aided geometric design while retaining their basic properties.

Crystals which are normally tabular or columnar retain their basic shape on twinning, but in addition, develop a small "shoulders" at the emergent surface sites of the twins whereas crystals of the prismatic habit which are usually longer along [100] compared with [001] retain a more equant habit.

This is a quite stable situation; species retain their basic status as common or rare for millions of years [ 6].

Our hypothesis is that while NHX proteins can be duplicated and subfunctionalized, they must retain their basic function and thus are under stronger purifying selection.

Resilience is the capacity of social and ecological systems to absorb disturbance and still retain their basic function and structure (Chapin et al. 2004; Holling 1973; Folke et al. 2002; Folke 2006; Walker and Salt 2006; Miller et al. 2008).

Restricted membrane fluidity is essential if cells are to retain their basic functions following exposure to very high temperatures (typically >40 °C tissue temperature), just as maintaining high fluidity is advantageous when cells are exposed to low temperature (Larkindale et al. 2005; Farrell et al. 2006; Penfield 2008).