Sentences with phrase «delicately balanced system»

(a) the environment is a delicately balanced system that can be pushed, by the least little perturbation, into a runaway positive feedback loop, turning the Earth into another Venus.

I grant that the thermodynamics of the affair probably doesn't make it have a large effect on the whole basin, but that is a delicately balanced system and the 1999 event may have tipped it.

As one component of a delicately balanced system for regulating brain activity, GABA functions to inhibit brain activity.

Nitrogen is essential to marine life and cycles throughout the ocean in a delicately balanced system.

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Living within a crowded and delicately balanced economic, social, and ecological system, we have become vitally dependent on each other, and on our collective habitat.

Croydon is a delicately balanced two - party state — our wildly disproportional electoral system «rewarding» 19 % of Lib Dem voters in 2010 with precisely none of the 70 council seats — and a modest vote swing would give Labour control.

Ecosystems are delicately balanced, and losing ecological roles throws a system out of whack: Think of a forest damaged when the deer population explodes because the wolves that prey on them are removed.

«Our analysis shows that a slow, smooth, migration of the system during its formation and evolution would be able to place these planets into the delicately balanced configuration that we observe today,» Ford said.