Since every insignificant effect estimate constitutes a theory component lacking evidentiary support from the current data, there is substantial incentive to avoid introducing multiple coefficients that would constitute fishing for significant effects.
The camera must be mounted on a substantial support to avoid extraneous movements while film is being exposed.
Finally, Chan and Sukumaran's lawyer has alleged that judges in the Denpasar district court requested payment of a substantial bribe to avoid giving the death penalty to them.
They take substantial risks to avoid loss and yet are risk averse in the domain of gains.
Defenders of Kant's ethics argue that it represents a substantial constraint: to avoid all those ways of thinking and acting that cannot be followed by all.
While large, the margin wasn't substantial enough to avoid a runoff, and the two candidates will face a second-round vote on October 28.
It is well known that genomes under stress, such as after a strong heat shock, undergo a substantial silencing, probably to avoid the potential danger of incorrect folding of proteins.
A population of cancer cells rapidly accumulates genetic variation and consequently substantial evolutionary potential to avoid the body's defences.
Temperature increases predicted over the coming decades suggests species with limited dispersal abilities will need substantial adaptive potential to avoid extinction.
