Sentences with phrase «even cultural circumstances»

The idea is to maintain seeds not as a preserved snapshot of a particular genetic moment in time, but rather as a living, evolving resource that adapts to the conditions, climate and even cultural circumstances (think organic growing methods versus conventional, for example) that they find themselves in.

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(The circumstances of board member David Bonderman's resignation even hint at a degree of indulgence for the cultural concerns.)

We also discuss how the same underlying cultural beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies die unexpectedly while sleeping in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk for SUID by bedsharing.

But even under the best circumstances, the differences that divide us and the stupid cultural assumptions sometimes gift - wrapping those differences can have a disarming effect on a minority student who believes that college equals a racial utopia in the land of happily ever after.