Sentence examples for sustaining half from inspiring English sources

Coral reefs are among the most biologically productive and diverse ecosystems in the world, representing hot spots of marine biodiversity, and directly sustaining half a billion people (Moberg and Folke 1999; Wilkinson 2004).

We found that doses as low as 0.125 μM were sufficient to maintain maximal expression of ApoE, and doses as low as 0.01 μM could sustain half maximal levels of ApoE expression.

But perhaps two-thirds of the disbursed money will go to sustain half-finished infrastructure projects, leaving little for new business investment.

Though there was an initial furious exchange of fire for five minutes, he said, the boy and his father were shot afterward, during a sustained half-hour fusillade from the Israeli side.

However, it sustains half-metallicity up to 5% of the biaxial compressive strain (see the right panel of Fig. 5).

One phase exponential decay curve fitting was performed and the sustained half-life of SRPIN340 in plasma (curve fitted from 1 h onwards) was 13.49 h.

The phosphorylation of CIITA by ERK1/2 leads to a sustained half-life and thus an active CIITA for a greater period of time.

In a sell note Julian Yates at Investec said: Recurring revenue grew 7.2%, sustaining first half 2014 levels, while software declined 3.4% versus a flat first half.

Fitz John Porter's V Corps sustained over half the killed in the Seven Days conflicts and almost half of the wounded or missing.

Workers under 30 have sustained nearly half the net job losses since November 2007.

"No organisation or individual could sustain losing half of their income without having to radically reduce spending.