Sentences with phrase «inhospitable environments»

Second, they argue that by «scrupulously adhering to their delegated powers,» international courts in «politically and legally inhospitable environments» can help them survive long enough to gain constituencies who will make use of them.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has been using Flyability drones to map underground caverns with the ultimate goal being to prove how these flying robots can navigate and map spaces that are too dangerous for humans, like inhospitable environments on other planets.

If, as Hall states, representation is a form of power, then Strachan's art is a way of complicating recurrent themes such as invisibility, migration, and displacement and to understand what Strachan describes as «the capacity of both persons and matter to withstand inhospitable environments.

Yet these metal fences and concrete buildings are interrupted by the anarchic sprouting of invasive plants, demonstrating the ability of nature to thrive in the most inhospitable environments — a metaphor for the pervasion of mankind's spirit in the least inviting of spaces.

While the game still includes barriers (such as weather effects, inhospitable environments or strong enemies), many of these can be overcome by using Food, effective weapons and armor or finding alternate routes.

Adapt or Perish; Craft to Survive: Mankind, so we believe, has become a prevalent species due to its ability to endure and adapt to inhospitable environments.

There are times when students are subjected to inhospitable environments and where curriculum and instructional practices fail to engage students of color.

The plan is to transform him into a superhuman who can survive the inhospitable environments of Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons.

This became clearer as I progressed deeper into this strange, alien world, where I would face creatures that succumbed to the great poison known as Phazon in inhospitable environments like the fiery depths of Magmoor Caverns and the icy wastelands of Phendrana Drifts.

Therefore, it is possible that CCHa2 is down - regulated when glucose is abundant but other nutrients are not available, to limit growth in inhospitable environments.

Just as you wouldn't bird - watch in interior Antarctica, you wouldn't search for aliens in inhospitable environments.

Until recently, archaeologists would have told you they were both inhospitable environments devoid of large - scale human settlements.

They also create an inhospitable environment within the uterus, which means that it is not a suitable environment for fertilized eggs to implant and grow.

It works in almost exactly the same way (by decreasing motility in the Fallopian tube and creating an inhospitable environment within the uterus), but it is hormone - free.

For Willibald, though, the Frisians were physically sowing seeds ---- sacred words, in this case ---- in an inhospitable environment.

Moist foods like soup, chili, pasta sauce or stews are ideal for slow cookers because the steam that builds up makes for a very inhospitable environment for bacteria.

Whilst it is extremely difficult to get samples from such an inhospitable environment, further work will enhance our understanding of the long - term behaviour of the fuel debris nano - particles and their impact.»

Cedar logging is taking place nearby, and there are concerns that this could dry out the area, changing the mycoflora and creating an inhospitable environment.

«This allows the cancer cell to survive in an otherwise inhospitable environment.»

Add to this their jointed pairs of legs, and you have a class well set up to deal with rugged terrain and an inhospitable environment.

The tiny microbe works its magic at near - boiling temperatures, providing the first example of a blue - green alga capable of juggling multiple forms of energy production in such an inhospitable environment.

«It's a period when Mars was probably transforming from a wet, warm place — perhaps a harbor for life — to what we see now: a dry, cold, inhospitable environment, not good for life,» Agee says.

Both teams then tried to figure out how methyl isocyanate might have formed in such a very cold and inhospitable environment.

If you saw the movie «The Martian» or read Andy Weir's bestselling novel upon which it was based, you know that astronauts who travel to Mars will have to brave some daunting hazards from the planet's inhospitable environment.

«As far as I know we are the first to conduct such a survey throughout an entire year and in such an inhospitable environment, under the ice and during an Arctic winter,» says Carolyn Rosten, a researcher at NINA.

Because yeast thrives on such foods, this creates an inhospitable environment for yeast and greatly reduces the likelihood of suffering from yeast related issues.

The swamp itself is a magnificent setting, both magical and haunting, a hostile, inhospitable environment that, in its own way, becomes a protective haven for our two outsiders carving their place out of a community that, in its way, is even more hostile.

Michael Shannon stars as a morally upright but profoundly haunted farmer who struggles to provide for his family (Kodi Smit - McPhee and Elle Fanning) in a parched, inhospitable environment.

He must find ways to survive in the inhospitable environment while managing to signal NASA for rescue.

How does one actually maintain a crop of potatoes on a planet with inhospitable environment?

It is our opinion that the public market for retail stocks is contributing to a risky and inhospitable environment under which the stock price of Barnes & Noble may not fairly reflect its intrinsic value anytime in the foreseeable future if it remains a stand - alone company.

It is our opinion that the public market for retail stocks is contributing to a risky and inhospitable environment under which the stock price of Barnes & Noble may not fairly reflect its intrinsic value anytime in the foreseeable future if it remains a stand - alone company,» Sandell said in the letter sent to the bookseller's board of directors.

Diatomaceous earth is a drying agent that creates an inhospitable environment for fleas (available at garden supply stores).

Why not go back in time to learn and explore the rainforest with an Aboriginal guide and find out how they have survived in this once inhospitable environment for 50,000 years, way before Bear Grylls came on the scene!

For more of a cultural expedition explore the rainforest with an Aboriginal guide and find out how they have survived in this inhospitable environment for 50,000 years, way before Bear Grylls came on the scene.

The resulting periodical, The North Georgia Gazette, presents the sailors as an older, idiosyncratic DIY art collective whose activities arguably sustained the crew through a physically, and psychologically inhospitable environment.

Liam Gillick's response to a potentially inhospitable environment might range from a subtle intervention to a comprehensive makeover.

It's difficult to imagine such abundance in an inhospitable environment until you see it for yourself.

LOLWOT — probably more like a trillion dollars plus huge maintenance, annual operation costs and several deaths a year as it is an extremely inhospitable environment.

The conventional belief that global warming would soon melt the Arctic, and make economic the large - scale infrastructure needed to operate in its inhospitable environment, had many in the oil industry — and in governments — gearing up to claim their share of this new frontier.

The Human Rights Tribunal found that whilst the cook had not explicitly been fired, the inhospitable environment constituted constructive dismissal.

Not exact matches

Robert A. G. Monks, founder of Lens Governance Advisors, ISS, and RAM Trust, says the environment for asking questions and raising issues at the meetings, however, is inhospitable.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

Another extreme, but surprisingly lively, environment can be found in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, which are some of the most inhospitable places on Earth: temperatures have fallen as low as -90 degrees Fahrenheit, and winds can blow up to 200 mph.

«We figured that a molecule that interfered with the pathogen's virulence could prevent inflammation and the disruption of colon tissue without making the intestinal environment inhospitable to normal, beneficial bacteria the way antibiotics do,» said Bogyo.

«The majority of our foreign doctors come from India and Pakistan, and while they're not on the list I think when the environment feels this uncertain and this inhospitable, they'll go to Canada and the U.K.,» he says.

Generally shy and abundant only around the inhospitable southern continent, the dark bronze beasts — among the smallest baleen whales at roughly 5 to 10 tons each — have been difficult to study in their environment, so biologists know little about their behavior.

Researchers realized the heart attack creates a hostile or toxic environment that is inhospitable to the injected stem cells.

Area X is a foreboding, inhospitable land where the laws of physics and nature have turned in on themselves as the environment mutates with new and fascinating results.

Developed by Related Designs in collaboration with Blue Byte, Anno 2070 takes place in a near - future environment where climate change has forced humanity to adapt to rising sea levels that have left stretches of once - fertile land completely inhospitable.