Sentences with phrase «as endemic»

The world, however, is old, and war and theft are as endemic to our race as property, so only a very few pieces of land have not changed hands by war or theft at least once in that long history.

In these ecosystems, anthropogenic climate change is likely to combine with past land - use changes and biological invasions to drive several species such as endemic birds to extinction (Benning et al., 2002).

Africa's major economic sectors are vulnerable to current climate sensitivity, with huge economic impacts, and this vulnerability is exacerbated by existing developmental challenges such as endemic poverty, complex governance and institutional dimensions; limited access to capital, including markets, infrastructure and technology; ecosystem degradation; and complex disasters and conflicts.

He was the greatest British landscape artist of the 20th century, and his deeply personal understanding of the countryside as the locus for forces that are ancient and mystical was as endemic as it was persistent.

In 1977 they designated Manu as a World Biosphere Reserve because it contains the best existing example of bio-diversity in protected areas of rain forest, as well as endemic areas of cloud forest.

Turneffe Atoll's reef supports a wide range of diverse aquatic species such as the endemic white spotted toadfish and the white lined toadfish.

Turneffe Atoll — the largest and most biologically diverse atoll in the western hemisphere — supports a wide range of diverse aquatic species such as the endemic white spotted toadfish and the white lined toadfish.

Prior to the dive we will give a briefing and share information about the underwater terrain as well as interesting marine life such as endemic species of Hawaii (fish and marine invertebrates only found in Hawaii).

The property provides important habitat for a number of threatened marine species, harbouring a number of species of conservation concern including the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), green turtle (Chelonia mydas), hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), and the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) as well as endemic and migratory birds which reproduce in the littoral forests of cayes, atolls and coastal areas.

There are more than 60 known species of wild orchids, as well as endemic and migrating bird and butterfly populations.

Finally, note that the progressive form of a linking verb, which involves using «to be» as an auxiliary verb with a participle, is not nearly as pernicious as the endemic «is» or «are».

«The good news is that translating that over to Laguna Seca, it's not a track that has that as an endemic issue.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

(Racked) «As the world's second - largest apparel company — after Inditex, which owns Zara — H&M said it felt a sense of «shared responsibility» when it came to persistently low wages, an issue as endemic to the global garment industry as unrelenting hours and unsafe environments.»

Likewise, some animal species such as the endemic African Monkey (Guenon species), one of the world's most beautiful monkeys found mostly in the West African rain forest region (the Niger Delta Region inclusive), are at the risk of extinction.

As we describe in the methods, biodiversity studies must limit themselves to species subsets restricted to the region — such as endemics [14].

Not exact matches

You play as a traveler to the city, but soon discover that it's plagued by an endemic sickness that's turned many of the residents into monsters.

Like the rest of Europe, Italy has endemic problems: A north - south divide and economic divergence, corruption and bureaucracy as well as troubles with migration, anti-establishment politics and a political system that is sluggish at best, and chaotic at worst.

The migration «problem» in Italy feeds into many other endemic issues in Italy — as well as highlighting the problem of organized crime, the country's north - south divide.

Still, one drawback may be the city's endemic financial woes; the state of Illinois is now grappling with $ 15 billion in unpaid bills, and as much as a quarter - trillion dollars is owed to public employees when they retire.

Racism, which had been endemic and publicly affirmed, came to be universally acknowledged as evil, and its grossest manifestations declined.

The richness and variegation of the New Testament message must be maintained.36 There is nothing endemic to the text which suggests that «epistle» is a superior form to «Gospel» as a medium for communicating God's truth.

Jesus» ministry, though, began as a renewal movement within Judaism, 61 went beyond theological issues, «addressing problems endemic to agrarian, indeed all class, societies.

My reflections arose, as I have indicated, in part from formative books and teachers, but they also grew out of grappling with Scripture (one of the lightning bolts here was the simple but profound insight of realizing once again the ineradicable connection of form and content — for instance, what is said in a parable can not be said in any other way), and with the complex business, endemic to academic theologians, of, as Kierkegaard would put it, becoming a Christian (not in general or for someone else but in particular and for me).

The great issues that face world society, such as the poverty and hunger of millions, the endemic violence, the drug trade, or the abuse of the environment — to name only a selection of key concerns — all have a spiritual and moral dimension.

This is a contradiction endemic to a society that» for whatever reason, and at least some of the reasons are probably lost in the mists of history» does not know how to ask anything of its children except that they manage somehow to behave as if their lives are pleasing to them.

Noll and Nystrom seem less perturbed than they might be by the ways in which the individualism endemic to Protestantism may have contributed to the contemporary «dictatorship of relativism» castigated by Joseph Ratzinger on the eve of his election as Pope Benedict XVI.

Christians have traditionally been committed to scrutinizing this «me I normally recognize» just as severely as Buddhists do, recognizing that idols and illusions are endemic to what I call my self.

Endemic farming is an important part of this training; reintroducing ancient traditions helps to preserve local culture while improving yields, as these methods often come from centuries of hard - earned experience.

Ecological research already carried out in these national parks and surrounding coffee plantations has shown the presence of more than 300 species of birds, (including endemic species, threatened forest specialists and birds of prey e.g. Black Hawk - Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus), 31 mammals species (some of them are endangered species such as the ocelot, cacomistle and Mexican porcupine), 26 reptile species, and 326 tree and bush species.

Sacha Inchi, otherwise known as «Mountain Peanut, «is endemic to the rainforest of Peru, where it has been cultivated by indigenous people for centurie...

During the flooding period, the network of irrigation canals and the organic paddy fields close to lagoons become a crucial link between marine and river environments, and provide an important habitat for many species of fish and amphibians, such as damnbusia (Gambusia holbrooki), carp (Cyprinus carpio), fartet (Lebias ibera - an endemic fish of the western Mediterranean Sea), coruna frog (Rana perezi), and others.

In opting for swimming, Kiki chose perhaps the toughest of disciplines: long hours of arm - heavy laps in the practice pool, where the only view is a shadowy blue blur that may be another swimmer or one's own imagination; the greedy slap and gurgle of arms (reach, grab, recover, reach, as the late Matt Mann rationalized it); the ring around the eyeballs, endemic to the competitive swimmer, caused by chlorine, which makes the whole wide world glow with halos on the way home from practice.

She probes the antic recklessness and wanton secrecy endemic to love affairs, breathing life into mistresses who evince the agency, autonomy, self - direction, and order of this definition — attributes far removed from the type of lasciviousness once meriting containment by legal statute and exile in imperial Rome — as well as to those who, by choice or circumstance, fell prey to their lovers» manipulation.

«Your Excellency can be assured that you have a good partner in me as I look forward to any form of collaboration between Nigeria and Ghana in tackling the menace of endemic corruption.

Prison reform groups pointed to the endemic violence at Cookham Wood as evidence that young offenders were not being rehabilitated in prison.

Odinga, 72, also the son of a leader of the independence struggle, cast himself as a champion of the poor and a harsh critic of endemic corruption.

«The very same issues that the DOJ has named in ending its contracts — the terrible health care available, the dangers to people incarcerated in private prisons — those are endemic to the private - prison contracts with DHS as well,» she said.

Some birds, such as species endemic to Borneo, are very hard to find and collect, and there's a chance the two projects may wind up competing for DNA from the few samples gathered.

They cite plenty of evidence: In the Northeast, where Lyme is endemic, the disease is spread by nymphs (the tick's juvenile form) of Ixodes scapularis, commonly known as blacklegged ticks.

The researchers conclude «The correlation between lineage specific adaptations and ability to restrict viruses endemic to the same hosts supports the hypothesis that lentiviruses closely related to modern SIVs were present in Africa and infecting the ancestors of cercopithecine primates as far back as 16 million years ago, and provides insight into the evolution of TRIM5 specificity.»

«In the 1950's, the Brazilian health agencies added chloroquine into cooking salt and distributed it to the population in endemic areas as an effective way of spreading the inexpensive anti-malarial drug as a prophylactic on a wide scale.

«For residents of areas such as the Southwest, where tularemia outbreaks are endemic and potentially life threatening, having more identification tools at hand is extremely valuable,» Kuske said.

Savannahs are home not only to unique wildlife, including the «Big Five» — the African elephant, rhinoceros, Cape buffalo, leopard and lion — but also to thousands of endemic plant species such as the baobab, or monkey bread tree.

Analyzing China, for example, the report balances that country's centralized planning and financial strength against countervailing factors such as its «endemic» corruption, repressive political structure, opaque legal system, and insistence that, in return for access to its vast market, foreign companies surrender proprietary intellectual property.

He made a series of statements in a 1978 Science paper that are startling given his role as a spokesperson for science: ``... unconscious or dimly perceived finagling, doctoring, and massaging are rampant, endemic, and unavoidable in a profession [science] that awards status and power for clean and unambiguous discovery»; «unconscious manipulation of data may be a scientific norm»; «scientists are human beings rooted in cultural contexts, not automatons directed toward external truth».

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

Although some regions such as Western Europe are free from rabies, the disease is still endemic in many parts of the world.

Unlike other human antibodies under investigation that recognize both Zika and the closely related dengue virus, the antibodies used in this study exclusively target Zika, demonstrating a high specificity that could be important in avoiding potential side effects — such as enhanced dengue infection in regions where both viruses are endemic.