The presence of naturally occurring arsenate and arsenite in water and soil environment which could enter the cells by the phosphate-transport system has given pressure for microorganisms to maintain their arsenic detoxification systems for surviving purposes.
For this purpose, surviving patients or their relatives were interviewed by telephone.
For this purpose, surviving target cells were quantified by incorporation of the gamma-emitting analogue of methionine, 75Sel-methionine, in a 48-h assay which detected both cytotoxic and cytostatic effects.
And, actually, even once you accept that natural selection, not God, is the "designer" — the blind watchmaker, as Mr. Dawkins put it — there is a sense in which these organs do have purposes, purposes that serve the organism's larger purpose of surviving and spreading its genes.
An exceedingly offensive and oppressive effluvia, strongly resembling decayed cheese, arose from the body, and rendered it necessary to close the coffin in a short time, and it has since been consigned to his surviving connexions for the purpose of re-interment.
The defence bunker is a rare surviving example of a purpose-built civil defence control centre.
I didn't have a lot of role models of women who went beyond surviving life to thriving through purpose.
The Museum of the History of Science is housed on Broad St in the world's oldest-surviving purpose-built museum building.
Sometimes I wonder if life's greatest challenge is not finding your purpose in life, but surviving it.
And yet Trident survives – and it seems will go on surviving despite the questions over its cost, purpose and durability and the ominous parallels with the battleship.
And a life that's able to find its purpose is a life worth surviving – if only he had given his new life a chance.
