It provides for the payment of the sum assured and the bonus amount on the survival of the policyholder at the end of the selected term. |
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The corollary is that it is not moderation, but total victory, that assures survival. |
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He then joined the army, motivated solely by a desire to learn combat and survival skills. |
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Even without taking into account large-scale land development, the malleefowl faces enormous survival difficulties with industry and ingenuity. |
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They are a technically reliable threat of last resort to discourage a foe from pressing too hard or threatening national survival. |
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With most aircrews traversing hot, desert-like climates, it's easy to assume an arctic survival situation is not in the cards. |
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For birds wintering at that northerly location, spring migrations may be less arduous, leading to increased survival and breeding success. |
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Pleasure is usually a reward for behaviour patterns that are good for survival and reproduction. |
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The story of his own and his mother's survival is recounted in his memoir with stunning visual detail. |
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Make sure you pack an emergency travel kit containing plenty of survival items. |
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These patterns may have implications for population survival and recruitment in forests. |
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Since its members will likely get next to nothing if it liquidates, the committee is now seen as an ally to the airline's bid for survival. |
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Some Americans are afraid the next disaster might be handled as badly as the last one and they're stocking up for survival. |
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Make no mistake, once you're in the crush for the ticket gates it's survival of the fittest, every man for himself. |
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It is a tale of fear and guilt, emotional survival, and the redemptive power of love. |
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For without a contrast model the world has no way to know or feel the oddness of its dependence on power for survival. |
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The felling of a sycamore tree in Bradford on Avon has angered residents who petitioned for its survival. |
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While the crew wrestles with the logistics of survival, emotional relationships between them begin to manifest. |
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Anything related to Taiwan's survival should be heeded with special alertness. |
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Ensuring that the animals are worth more alive than dead may be their only shot at survival. |
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However, deeper layers of paint were protected from light-induced degradation, as evidenced by the survival of double bonds in linseed oil. |
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Resistant starches can act as a carrier to enhance the survival of probiotic organisms. |
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Patients with aneuploid tumors have a poorer five-year survival rate than patients with diploid tumors. |
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The survival of a president to provide national leadership is essential to national unity and strong public will. |
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While we offer the ubiquitous aloha greeting, the lei of nonnative flowers, the real issues of Hawaiian cultural survival largely go ignored. |
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We feel that economic failure has created a situation where survival and law have been relegated to antagonistic positions. |
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Over the years we have added scientific investigations on wildlife road kill, tree growth and a study of American chestnut seedling survival. |
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The few remaining teachers rely solely on donations from various sources for their survival. |
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Surprisingly, Chris discovers her true self during the survival course but lands Charles with a black eye in the process. |
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Concern has been expressed about the long term survival of the Island's last two remaining limekiln structures. |
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Zambia's economic survival as a landlocked country depends on the transport system for the movement of its exports and imports. |
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Natural selection leads us to expect animals to behave in ways that increase their own chances of survival and reproduction, not those of others. |
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The survival of political machines usually rested on the amenability of federal supervisors. |
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It has been used by the native North American Indians as a survival food over the centuries. |
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Well, the greatest reward in World War II was survival, if you lasted through it. |
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An increased laying interval would create a large hatching interval for last-born chicks with potential negative effects on their survival. |
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Their opinion was that negative emotions are more lateralized in the brain because they are associated with survival mechanisms. |
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It has lots of fun things for cheap, but it's a hassle to go there and spend any amount of time buying things for my survival. |
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Does a blood transfusion in anemic patients with acute coronary syndrome improve survival? |
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And that in layman's language is about the survival of the professional game in Ireland. |
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Another Maryland tree, a 81-foot river birch in historic Belt Woods, has little chance of survival, says Pam. |
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In order to launch the WMU and to assure its survival as an auxiliary, the organization needed a strong, tenacious leader. |
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Four lines of print at the bottom, stating that survival rates are improving, fail to mitigate the harsh message. |
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A second objective was to attempt to ascertain the limits to survival in terms of loss of conductivity. |
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Conditions for the survival of the lyric would seem as favorable now as they ever were. |
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Big-eyed bug survival was higher, and emigration was lower, when lima bean plants had pods than when they did not. |
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Small apollo butterflies demonstrate various means of defense to increase their chances of survival. |
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For Nepal's indigenous ethnic minorities like the Buddhist Tamangs the struggle for survival is compounded by their marginalized status. |
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I would not like to think that my survival was dependent upon the hope of misfortune being visited on other farmers. |
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The administration of superoxide dismutase to scavenge superoxide anions was found to promote the survival rate of transplanted skin flaps. |
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The endosymbiotic theory describes how a large host cell and ingested bacteria could easily become dependent on one another for survival. |
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Maintenance of blood glucose homeostasis is of paramount importance to the survival of the human organism. |
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The researchers suspect that the same genes could confer greater longevity and are measuring the animals' survival rate. |
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Beyond mere survival are the severe long-term problems of a once major club in a spiral of decline. |
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In a global market, consolidation has become a survival strategy, not a route for risk-taking. |
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Missing from most historical accounts in Mexico and the US is how Apaches and Yoemem were forced to engage in struggles for survival. |
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The birds have been bred in captivity and will be fitted with radio tags to monitor their survival. |
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Specific antiviral treatment has been effective in improving the survival of the patients. |
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And Parkes is fully aware of what's riding on the outcome of the next eight games as Rovers battle for Premiership survival. |
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This process will lead to the evolution of a life history in which fertility and survival chances decrease with increasing age. |
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The only option for survival is submerging oneself in an illusion of meaning, a world of make-believe. |
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That impressive pedigree transmits well to this film, a rousing tale of survival against the odds that's partly inspired by a true story. |
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Above all, 82 accident victims need artificial hands and 91 others artificial limbs for survival. |
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The antilog of the slope of this line represented average annual survival for that age interval. |
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Overall, the price depression has predisposed subsistence farmers to serious problems of survival and financial constraints. |
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However, it is unclear why intrinsic value should attach to cultural survival as such. |
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As the old lower middle class struggled for survival, so a new lower middle class blossomed. |
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For both types of nests, daily survival rates and standard errors were calculated using the maximum-likelihood estimator of Bart and Robson. |
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Word quickly spread about the convenience and economy that could result from teaching survival lessons at a distance. |
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He now had their packs and survival gear, machine guns and machetes strapped to him. |
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The stakes of nuclear war engage not just the survival of the antagonists, but the fate of mankind. |
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There is just so much to know about cellular respiration, which is vital to the survival of many living species. |
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Some islands provide nesting habitat that is critical to the survival of the endangered roseate tern. |
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The survival of museums depends on a complete rethink of our exhibits and approaches to marketing them. |
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Hogwarts retells the story of Harry's birth, fame, and miracle survival from Voltemart's rage. |
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So there is a sadness, but there is also the survival aspect that's sung about in a number of our waiata. |
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Winter for Kiev's waifs and strays is a cold, bleak daily battle for survival. |
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New fighters and bombers could be equipped with cameras to carry out the same reconnaissance with a much better chance of survival. |
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I clocked up 32 victories and 2 charged sigils in survival mode playing Tekken Tag Tournament yesterday. |
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Now, the flip side of the heartbreaking stories we've had to bring you in abundance this week are the breathtaking stories of survival. |
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It began on the western frontier, at a time when driving cattle was vital to the survival of an expanding nation. |
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Several studies have shown that immediate heparinisation followed by warfarin treatment improves survival. |
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The restoration of diversity is one of the keys not only to our survival but also to our prosperity in the future. |
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Plants have evolved various protective mechanisms that allow them to acclimate to unfavourable environments for continued survival and growth. |
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These moral codes may be forces for good or forces for ill, but they clearly have survival power on their own account. |
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In the Gulf, I had taken out the watch cap and the hand-warmers, and I hadn't bothered to put them back into my survival vest. |
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After all, the more unkind the times, the more the survival of the culture itself comes into question. |
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The compromised microcirculation further jeopardizes the survival of pneumocytes and culminates in emphysema. |
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The purpose of an infant incubator is to secure and improve the chances of survival of a premature or weakly infant. |
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The chances of survival for South Africa's most endangered mammal, the riverine rabbit, looks even more desperate than has commonly been feared. |
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During the few minutes of the attacks, survival thoughts raced through my head. |
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The report identifies wide variations in survival associated with race and ethnicity. |
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Pitic may have let the internal disagreements blind him from the many uncertainties ahead, not least the survival of Yugoslavia itself. |
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Conversely, patients whose genes efficiently counteracted chemotherapy and radiation treatment had shorter survival times overall. |
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In Wales, the survival of the Welsh language gave a cultural focus to nationalism. |
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For all of their contacts and talent, he acknowledges the fact that survival, as a musician, is a process of adaptation. |
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A survival course is one of the latest additions to the club's list of extreme sports. |
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Discover the survival techniques of whelks, worms, wentletraps, and other marine creatures. |
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To the peoples of the west Nordic and arctic areas, hunting is a question of survival as well as an ancient cultural heritage. |
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Four patients responded despite extensive metastases to liver, brain, skin, and adrenals, with survival of 4 to 6 months. |
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In subtropical or temperate regions, or on tropical mountains low temperatures may limit their growth and survival. |
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Under such circumstances, his survival into adulthood was by no means unremarkable. |
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These thoughts race through the brain just as a kick of adrenaline triggers a survival instinct. |
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Many of those left behind lost not only their loved ones, but also their means of survival. |
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Large seeds have been found to have a better chance of survival as seedlings and a growth advantage over smaller seeds in competitive situations. |
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Siblicide is a cause of juvenile mortality, and so should select for greater investment in survival. |
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They rightly fear that the adventurist posture may prove very costly to their own interests, even to survival. |
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In this way, the plant can resume aerobic metabolic activity required for long-term survival. |
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The four-week course taught aeromedical physiology, aircraft-loading procedures, and survival skills. |
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In the first study, aestival survival of the plant was tested at two moisture levels. |
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The novel follows a farming family's fight for survival in the aftermath of the foot and mouth epidemic. |
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Like a sharp pair of fangs, quick forelegs, or keen hearing, our adept mind has insured the survival of our species. |
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Whatever the eventual afterworld destination of the people involved, one imagines that they are keenly alive to their own survival. |
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There's been a colour-shift giving them a rather livid hue as if they had all been bruised in a fight for survival. |
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That's a very European idea, which needs to fight against a tough tide of facts for survival. |
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Whereas in the case of saplings planted in a house with the wholehearted co-operation of the house owner, the chances of survival are better. |
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The livelihoods of many thousands of people depend on their success and they must succeed to ensure survival. |
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The order specified as its purposes the company's survival as a going concern and a better realisation of its assets. |
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Animals that rear their young might educate their young in survival abilities. |
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Cunning eyes, wily grins, pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival. |
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He has been given a 20 per cent chance of survival and doctors say he might have three to six months to live. |
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London-based Wanderers' fans are celebrating a double survival success after winning their own battle to beat the drop. |
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It has proven itself to be the winning strategy for the survival of our species, bar none. |
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After the briefing, the pilots suit up in their combat survival vests and helmets, a rig carefully prepared and inspected by the life-support crew. |
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Sen. Blanche Lincoln is in a dogfight for survival in her primary against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. |
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I know that politics is a blood sport, senator, but your strong survival instinct needs to evolve. |
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To view it differently is to prefer brain-dead legalism to survival. |
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Roberts has staked his survival on branding Orman with the label most likely to unsettle undecided Kansans. |
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Settled by the mutineers from the Bounty and their Tahitian companions in 1789, residents of Pitcairn have relied on fishing and subsistence farming for their survival. |
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What is less convincing is her buoyant optimism about our odds of survival. |
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In fact, it now became necessary to think about how to make a landing on this lee shore without having the entire survival effort end in disaster. |
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In the cataclysm that followed, the survival of republican government indeed was in peril. |
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Thus, lysogeny seems to be a survival strategy at low host abundance and activity, whereas high host abundance and activity seems to favor the lytic life cycle. |
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The controversial defection law was put on ice yesterday pending a Constitutional Court decision, leaving some politicians in limbo and others scrambling for survival. |
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This is highly unusual in the war culture of Mogadishu, where survival of the fittest means profit however you can. |
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With chemotherapy, her doctors give her at least an 80 percent chance of survival. |
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Since this use of 'ginger' is considered obsolete by the OED, these instances suggest a re-invention via back-formation rather than a survival of the old word. |
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On Monday 18 yachts sailed in the north lake where an extremely strong wind from the north created survival conditions on the windward leg to FBA North. |
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Chicagoan Bill Smith discovered Chen three years ago when she was scavenging for survival in Phnom Penh's toxic garbage dumps. |
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It was a long shot, but it seemed to be my best chance at survival. |
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Greg passed on snow survival techniques, which include digging trenches to create windbreaks and making snow caves for overnight shelter if you become stranded. |
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Will there be future developments that will once again force us to review the age at which we see a foetus as a human capable of independent survival? |
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Several countries with socialized medicine have breast-cancer survival rates that are barely distinguishable from our own. |
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The film is both an action and a survival story rolled into one. |
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In addition to testing the generality of fungal survival factors, auxotrophic mutants allow several key aspects of fungal biology to be assessed in vivo. |
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As much as the concept of community had developed, humans still had a capacity for wanting the best for themselves, the remnant of survival instincts. |
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We cannot accredit his survival to clinical treatment of neurasthenia, but perhaps his vicarious experience on the mesa with Tom Outland can account for his fortitude. |
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Yet, our brain's wiring hasn't changed much, and human survival responses still are triggered by the idea we are under some sort of imminent threat. |
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Encourage research into the effects of acidification of water bodies on the survival of floating water plantain by establishing a series of submerged fixed-point sample plots. |
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Never mind the game, the moment to savour came after the final whistle when the happy Wanderers went on a lap of honour to celebrate their survival. |
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Future trials should also examine long term outcomes, recurrence rate, long term survival, and the development of resistant pathogens, particularly with quinolones. |
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The problems with this concept include the role of food enzymes in digestion, their survival through gastric acidity and the notion of a body pool of enzymes. |
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Harvey, who had won five of his seven previous fights, took an eight count, and having felt Symonds' power resorted to holding for survival and was warned by the referee. |
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Efficiency is key to survival, because the Serengeti contains the highest concentration of large predators in the world. |
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Evolutionary psychology has puzzled over the question of what is it about crying that would have been advantageous for survival. |
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The ruthless logging of these magnificent trees is leading to the destruction of precious forests that are critical to the survival of wildlife such as the jaguar. |
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This small moth is completely dependent on the yucca plant for its existence, and the yucca plant is completely dependent on the yucca moth for its survival. |
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In its own way, its story of survival is every bit as dramatic as the films it accompanies. |
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There is nothing worth giving your life for, it's all about survival. |
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She is using this technique, which generations of African-Americans have used for survival, for fame and profit. |
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Having been reduced to a rump of six seats in 1999, the Nationals have made a desperate bid for survival by refusing to sign a coalition agreement with the Liberals. |
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Maximal survival was obtained after drying protoplasts with a mixture of sucrose and raffinose, while pure sucrose and trehalose were somewhat less effective protectants. |
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They were taking down our coordinates every 15 minutes in case we got washed under and had to take the rubber raft and jump into our survival suits. |
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The king feared that had Prince Bertil married a commoner, the royal dynasty's survival would be jeopardised. |
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James brought little in the way of survival skills, but his companionship at night raised the team morale. |
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With two out of every three deaths in Iraq caused by diarrhoea and respiratory infections, a safe supply of clean water is crucial to child survival. |
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What seemed to be an old political rivalry took on ethnic overtones, with the very survival of entire communities now at stake. |
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They took us in, fed us, clothed us, and taught us basic survival skills. |
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As despotic regimes across the Arab world crumble or battle for survival, what lies ahead? |
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It owes its survival to having been dismantled and re-erected by a medieval bishop as the entrance to his palace, now used as the Palais de Justice. |
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This in turn has served to fuel hostility from those whose survival depends on lowland pastures and has affected cattle ranching and tourism in wildlife reserves. |
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In fact, requisites for the intertwined interests in cultural survival and sustainable resource management might look something like the following list. |
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The poor survival and high mortality rates are due to presentation in advanced stages, recurrence of the primary and development of second primary tumors. |
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Hanegbi acknowledged that for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, survival alone would be portrayed as victory. |
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Natural selection is the differential survival of replicators in gene pools. |
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Transmission of roundworm, whipworm and hookworm requires a warm wet environment to ensure survival of eggs or larvae in soil that is contaminated with human faeces. |
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The very rigorousness and severity of its religious and ethical code of conduct have contributed to its resilience and survival as a minority in all parts of India. |
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He compares himself to Scheherazade, whose survival was based on her ability to weave tale after tale. |
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The back cover claims it presents the wonderful story of the elephant, from the extinct mammoths of the Ice Age to their present day battle for survival. |
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Given the survival of the church, there is the possibility of continuity in Conisbrough from the Anglian period, through the Viking Age, to the Norman conquest and beyond. |
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To increase your chances of survival in a rip current, swimmers should swim parallel to the shore until the current lessens and then swim to shore. |
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It is not just a survival technique for whistling in the dark to keep our spirits up, but it is an encounter with the reality within which we live. |
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Environmental monitoring in the catchment assesses fresh water impacts on the survival of juveniles including issues such as afforestation, overgrazing and climate change. |
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Perhaps the finest and most moving single poem in the book is one combining a Keatsian awareness of frailty with a surprised celebration of survival. |
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The relatively scant amount of English written law is due not to wars and problems of documentary survival, but to its distance from post-Roman legal culture. |
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Is it that the communication of joy has no survival value for us, while the communication of distress has? |
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But the Burnley boss insists he is still keeping one eye on the opposite end of the table after reiterating that survival remains his number one target. |
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Indicating a constant testing of the consciousness of survival, this reiterative process of deferral is what paradoxically shapes and undermines the narrative. |
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It is to these factors, as much as to studies and use by scholars and writers, that the widespread survival of biblical usage and allusion can be attributed. |
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The leader, me, Gus, hands over the device that reads Val's signal to the two youngest members, along with two camels and basic survival supplies. |
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These analyses show that the meaningfulness and sense of purpose that older people have in their lives are also related to survival. |
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This operation will greatly improve her chances of survival. |
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The Anthropic Principle states that the universe seems to be arranged in a way that favours the appearance and survival of life. |
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As the New Year opened, the survival of Western democracy rested, at bottom, on the case the U.S. would make for it. |
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A survival tactic I learned on the psych ward was how to quickly size up potential enemies or garden-variety badasses. |
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The churching of women traditionally includes thanksgiving for the women's survival of childbirth. |
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It has been shown that claspin positively affects the survival of cancer cells. |
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Coniopterygids in the genus Conwentzia may prey on spider mites, but dense webbing can be detrimental to survival of larvae. |
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Evolutionary traps can threaten populations and species if they result in widespread reductions in survival and reproduction. |
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The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality. |
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In such a competitive environment, attracting forumites and maintaining their numbers are essential for the existence and survival of a forum. |
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Central to survival for their assistance in tilling the soil and supplying food, cattle became an economic resource to these early people. |
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Of particular note is the survival of the pagan fascination with the forest in the retention of Christmas tree even today. |
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Drinking the water as a means of survival would actually hydrate the body instead of dehydrating, as is the case with ocean water. |
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Names of British origin may or may not indicate survival of a British population. |
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The British name Caedbaed is found in the pedigree of the kings of Lindsey, which argues for the survival of British elites in this area also. |
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Reports of the passage of the remnance of the Spanish Armada around Ireland abound with onerous accounts of hardships and survival. |
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It was therefore necessary to secure the favour of wealthy or important individuals for the society's survival. |
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Though he thought of religion as a tribal survival strategy, Darwin was reluctant to give up the idea of God as an ultimate lawgiver. |
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More offspring are produced than can possibly survive, and these conditions produce competition between organisms for survival and reproduction. |
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Also, the term adaptation may refer to a trait that is important for an organism's survival. |
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The survival of a distinct Cornish culture has been attributed to Cornwall's geographic isolation. |
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In west Penwith, the area of late survival of the Cornish language, spriggans are distinguished from pixies by their malevolent nature. |
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He also helped them avoid relegation as they finished 19th in the Championship, securing survival with one game to go. |
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After the success of the 1896 Games, the Olympics entered a period of stagnation that threatened their survival. |
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As in 1852, Derby led a minority government, dependent on the division of its opponents for survival. |
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Without a general election, a Conservative government would be another minority, dependent for survival on the division of its opponents. |
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The nature of submarine warfare meant that attacks often came without warning, giving the crews of the merchant ships little hope of survival. |
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There is no evidence for the survival of the Irish language in Montserrat into the twentieth century. |
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Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. |
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Eventually, cows took over much of Ireland, leaving the native population virtually dependent on the potato for survival. |
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These scores are often suggested to represent a survival from medieval Cumbric, a theory first popularized in the 19th century. |
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With crowds dwindling clubs were forced to drastic measures in the hope of survival. |
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These diverse strategies for survival amongst the migratory herds could also provide an evolutionary route towards nomadic pastoralism. |
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The survival of this object is all the more remarkable as it includes a statuette of the Virgin Mary. |
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By contrast, noxii were convicts sentenced to the arena with little or no training, often unarmed, and with no expectation of survival. |
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This practice generally has a negative effect on measures of reproductive success, including decreased litter size and puppy survival. |
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Language change has also threatened the survival of stateless languages with existing literary standards, such as Occitan. |
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Nonadapting receptors, such as those detecting pain, are also essential for survival. |
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The building had space for engineering and logistics facilities, a survival equipment section, classrooms and office space. |
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The story of Taliesin is a later survival, not present in the Red or White Books, and is omitted from many of the more recent translations. |
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They used it widely in structures such as buildings, public baths and aqueducts, ensuring their survival into the modern era. |
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Due to the high survival rate following surgery, the nonrearterialized model of OLT in the rat is commonly utilized. |
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Their survival rate did not match those of the steam locomotives, and when the quarry closed in 1969 only 3 still survived. |
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Renal survival was nonstatistically worse in the lowest ultrafiltration group. |
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Once again, therefore, there is no simple relationship between mass-populist versus elite-dominated regimes and survival versus nonsurvival. |
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This rare survival is now on private land and can only be accessed by arrangement. |
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Overfishing also decreases the abundance of razorbill prey and thus affects their survival. |
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In recent years, some organizations have also raised livestock to promote the survival of rare breeds. |
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Deforestation can also create fragmentation, allowing the survival of only patches of habitat in which species can live. |
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Therefore, more than anything else, the decline in death rates in Stage Two entails the increasing survival of children and a growing population. |
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When the death rate falls or improves, this may include lower infant mortality rate and increased child survival. |
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Breeders give a high priority to hardiness, milking ability, mothering quality and lamb survival. |
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Fresh water is an important natural resource necessary for the survival of all ecosystems. |
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The threats to their survival is loss of nesting habitat, direct harvest of the eggs and adults, and getting caught in fishing gear. |
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Human action presents both intentional and unintentional threats to the species' survival. |
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These characteristics have been linked to crocodilian survival at the end of the Cretaceous. |
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This reproductive strategy provides a few offspring that have a high survival rate. |
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Other specific impacts are on animal mating, spawning, egg and larvae viability, juvenile survival and plant productivity. |
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Although the overall survival rates of the sprat decreased in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there has been an increase in the last two decades. |
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Although some drift away to warmer regions during the year, their best survival rate is in colder climates. |
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This mode of reproduction produces few offspring, but increases the survival probability of each one. |
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Subsistence hunters typically use whale products for themselves and depend on them for survival. |
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At the extremes, for any form of life, consideration of pollution is superseded by that of survival. |
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Short of survival, human concerns include the range from quality of life to health hazards. |
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Many began as food sources seen as necessary for survival but became the target of sport. |
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The survival of the language is tenuous in many places, and has died out in many places where assimilation has occurred. |
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Ships began to arrive in port, their crews sending messages to friends and relatives both of their survival and the loss of some 6,000 others. |
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This isolation poses one of the greatest threats to the future survival of the grizzly bear in the contiguous United States. |
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Increased aggressiveness also assists female brown bears in better ensuring the survival of their young to reproductive age. |
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High rat populations in the UK are often attributed to the mild climate, which allow them higher survival rates during the winter. |
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In obligate monogamy, both parents care for the offspring and play an important part in their survival. |
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Territoriality and aggression contribute greatly to the rabbits maturation process and help ensure survival of the population. |
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This significantly reduces their food requirements and increases their chances of survival in the winter. |
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In Britain, Ireland, and mainland Europe, sika display very different survival strategies and escape tactics from the indigenous deer. |
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The oceans are also a reservoir of dissolved atmospheric gases, which are essential for the survival of many aquatic life forms. |
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A decline of seasonal sea ice puts the survival of Arctic species such as ringed seals and polar bears at risk. |
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In a sense, this process is not one of reproduction but one of survival and expansion of biomass of the individual. |
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The niche concept is that if an area supports an organism's need for survival then it is more likely to live there. |
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This group seems to have been dependent upon marine resources for their survival. |
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The frequency of this genetic variant is due to the survival of immune persons. |
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The Constitutional Union Party said the survival of the Union was at stake and everything else should be compromised. |
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An abundance of drifting seaweed or jellyfish can result in significant increases in the survival rates of some juvenile species. |
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Overall, predation does not present a significant threat to the survival of any manatee species. |
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Reproductive success reduces immensely, survival methods, changes in health and growth have also been affected. |
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This combination of abilities is more marked in apes and men, but only men, or more generally Hominans, depend on tool use for survival. |
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She tells of her life on one of Britain's Scilly Isles, where her family's survival depends on the mercy of the elements and the sea. |
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Each member of the group was skilled at all tasks essential to survival, regardless of individual abilities. |
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In the Glanville fritillary, clutch size is highly important as larval survival depends on groups size. |
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The ancient Yan Tan Tethera counting system for sheep is a survival of Brittonic counting systems. |
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The latter can be seen as a survival from an earlier stage in the language, very much like the more archaic Celtiberian language. |
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The battle ensured the survival of the Roman Empire for another two centuries. |
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Finally, although Roman towns continued on a reduced level, there is no question as to their survival. |
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Calf survival varies according to the season of birth, with calves born during the dry season having higher survival rates. |
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Outsourcing became a huge factor for survival for many smugglers and opium farmers. |
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From corals, to dugongs, Persian Gulf is a diverse cradle for many species who depend on each other for survival. |
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The survival of a caravan was precarious and would rely on careful coordination. |
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The amount of illegal fishing has significantly depleted fish stocks, depriving local fishing communities of an important resource for survival. |
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The inequality figures thus take into account people who do not actually rely on the formal economy for their survival. |
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The January 2010 earthquake, was a major setback for education reform in Haiti as it diverted limited resources to survival. |
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Pedreira, described in his work Insularismo the cultural survival of the Puerto Rican identity after the American invasion. |
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This may increase cria survival by reducing fatalities due to hypothermia during cold Andean nights. |
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The chances for survival would be greatly increased if one member of the crew in a punctured ship was wearing a pressure suit. |
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Birth control also improves child survival in the developing world by lengthening the time between pregnancies. |
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The belief is that the human mind itself is the source of wealth and survival and that all property at its base is intellectual property. |
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He leads through example and advises his wives on all social affairs of the home as well as seeing to the larger survival of the family. |
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For impoverished households, income from a child's work is usually crucial for his or her own survival or for that of the household. |
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But for many of these children the factory system meant quite literally the only chance for survival. |
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Adjuvant chemotherapy for people with stage IB cancer is controversial, as clinical trials have not clearly demonstrated a survival benefit. |
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In advanced cases, appropriate chemotherapy improves average survival over supportive care alone, as well as improving quality of life. |
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