Sentence examples for terrestrial condition from inspiring English sources

In the popular piety of these religions, however, there is a widespread belief in ghosts, ghouls, goblins, demons, and evil spirits that influence man in his terrestrial condition and activities.

A separate group of crabs was transferred from 30 ppt to the different salinities or to aquaria without water (terrestrial condition), and subsamples of this group were sampled on day 2 and day 10.

Due to a high mortality rate (>50%) 3 days after water deprivation, crabs could only be acclimated to the terrestrial condition for 2 days, and mortality was less than 5% in all groups sampled.

Together with the differences between the terrestrial condition and 50-ppt salinity, the increased Na+/K+-ATPase activity is not simply part of a cellular regulation since the cells were exposed to the similar osmo/ionic stresses.

The "pachypleurosaur" humerus is generally more complex and more closely resembles the plesiomorphic (terrestrial) condition.

We have shown in previous study [19] that under microgravity condition the kinematics characteristics of STS movement were modified as compared with the same movement made under terrestrial condition.

The rocks and fossils suggest alternating open-sea (the limestone and shales with marine shells) and terrestrial conditions (the coal).

If life can thrive under such extreme terrestrial conditions, the reasoning goes, it must be sufficiently adaptable and tenacious to spring up in what once would have been thought the most unlikely places.

In most species the permanent larval state is determined by heredity, but in some it is induced by environmental factors, such as unfavourable terrestrial conditions resulting from drought or cold.

An example is the near equality of the abundances of the interstellar molecule HNC (hydroisocyanic acid) and its isomer HCN (hydrocyanic acid); in ordinary terrestrial conditions there is plenty of energy to allow the nitrogen and carbon atoms in HNC to exchange positions and produce HCN, by far the preferred species for equilibrium chemistry.

It was precisely by abstracting from these terrestrial conditions, by appealing to a power of imagination and abstraction which would, as it were, lift the human mind out of the gravitational field of the earth and look down upon her from some point in the universe, that modern science reached its most glorious and, at the same time, most baffling, achievements.