Sentences with phrase «of immediate survival»

We are constantly confronted with people who simply can not afford to take a long view because they are faced with choices of immediate survival.

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Identify strategic opportunities that can provide an immediate return on investment so as to support current operations and increase the likelihood of the company's survival.

It might be argued that the survival success of a species which bases its immediate actions, especially those in which the survival of its individuals is at stake, on a particular experience constitutes a powerful argument for the general reliability of that experience.

Primary memory assures the survival of the immediate past in the present moment of experience, as distinct from «secondary memory» which recalls a more distant past into present experience.

It's most prominent consideration would be survival, regardless of what may occur to those outside of its immediate family unit.

«There are tensions between day - to - day immediate coping strategies and ideas of long - term survival,» reported Mariz Tadros, a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University.

«Such options are often neither optimum nor necessarily rights - enhancing, but represent perceptions of what would minimize encroachments and maximize survival whether in the immediate or long run.»

This is a case where it is imperative to the survival of your baby that you seek immediate medical attention.

However, wasted children are those at immediate risk of dying and will need timely detection and correct management for their survival.

Rising Premiums is the immediate issue, but more broadly, the survival of the entire program is in jeopardy.

Strikingly, the treatment approach didn't make a difference to 10 - year survival: Ninety - nine percent of the more than 1600 men in the trial were alive after a decade, whether they had initially received radical surgery, radiation, or active monitoring, which meant no immediate therapy, but intervention as needed.

«One of the major and immediate downstream effects of myc activation is a dramatic increase in the capacity of affected cells to make protein,» Ruggero said «This, in turn, leads to increased cell survival and proliferation, and to unstable genomes that foster additional mutations that turn these abnormal cells into tumor cells.»

«The ability to form functional vascular networks in 3D tissues before they are implanted not only enables thicker tissues to be formed, it also raises the possibility of surgically connecting these networks to the natural vasculature to promote immediate perfusion of the implanted tissue, which should greatly increase their engraftment and survival.»

Everything is a struggle, and life has worn us out to the point that any kind of work beyond immediate survival feels like an overwhelming task.

Ultimately, operating from a survival state means your life is driven by unconscious impulses that serve only to get you away from an immediate threat, not to set you up for success down the road, which can lead to less than optimal decisions in a moment of panic.

It flows away from the digestive system, which is not considered necessary for immediate survival and actually takes a lot of energy to run.

When nutrients are scarce, as in times of famine, available nutrients will be devoted to the most urgent functions — fuctions that promote immediate survival.

All of the long - term survival mechanisms that are not needed in that immediate moment take a back seat, such as reproductive function, digestion, hormone balancing, metabolism and detoxification.

While this rush of chemicals is essential for our survival, the response is supposed to be short - term, with mechanisms in place to shut off the stress hormones when the immediate danger has passed.

The intimate and devastating drama contrasts the terrifying horror of the blast and its immediate aftermath (the blackened bodies running through the streets, unrecognizable and moments from death, operating on whatever survival instinct is left, is an image not soon forgotten) with the calm, pastoral countryside where, 10 years later, victims of the blast still deal with the legacy.

In «Cool It,» documentary maker Ondi Timoner airs out Danish author and academic Bjorn Lomborg's controversial and contrarian premise — set forth in his 2001 book «The Skeptical Environmentalist» — that global warming is less threatening to our immediate survival than the decreasing supply of fresh water and the spread of HIV / AIDS and malaria.

Aside from the immediate challenge of survival for the elementary school, Sorensen has his sights set on expansion.

To begin addressing these crises back in 2000, the convened leaders set down the Millennium Declaration, a series of collective priorities for peace and security, poverty reduction, the environment and human rights — essential steps for the advancement of humankind, as well as for the immediate survival for a significant portion of it.

Those reforms, said Kozol, «can not, for reasons of immediate operation, finance, and survival, raise serious doubts about the indoctrination and custodial function of the public education apparatus.»

This is an emergency situation which requires immediate surgery to have any chance of survival.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE - NEWMARKET, ON (OCTOBER 29, 2012)- Making arrangements before the chaos of an emergency, such as a bad storm, can increase your pet's chances of survival and greatly reduce the fear and anxiety your pet will experience.

Taking immediate action may increase your hamster's chances of survival.

Without immediate medical attention, the chance of survival is extremely low.

However, the new 2c strain of parvovirus has been known to kill some puppies within the first 12 hours, which makes immediate action pertinent to the survival of an infected puppy.

Taking advantage of Lara's newly - acquired survival instincts is vital when it comes to locating useful items in your immediate surroundings.

Celebrating makeshift solutions, survival instincts, and the reuse of discarded material, Anne Percoco's The Life Instinct infused practical works inspired by immediate necessity with playfulness and wit.

Celebrating makeshift solutions, survival instincts, and the reuse of discarded material, Percoco's work infuses practical works inspired by immediate necessity with playfulness and wit.

Climate change is a moral crisis because every time governments of wealthy nations fail to act, it sends a message that we in the global north are putting our immediate comfort and economic security ahead of the suffering and survival of some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth.

«It is not a theoretical, or distant, concern,» she explains, «it is in an immediate sense, a matter of physical, social, and economic, survival.»

In those parts of the continent where the development industry is still paving over farmland, let's have an immediate moratorium on any construction on farmland: We are talking survival, not subdivisions.

If you have a loved one who was killed, you and other immediate family members can bring a wrongful death action, and the decedent's estate may bring a survival action to collect damages such as medical expenses; lost earnings; loss of love, support and companionship; and pain and suffering if the decedent survived for a time before succumbing.

the most advanced scientific research has concluded that changes in climate will gravely harm the health of indigenous peoples» traditional lands and waters and that many of plants and animals upon which they depend for survival will be threatened by the immediate impacts of climate change.

A survival response such as fighting is functional in situation of real danger, as it is fast (e.g., parent grasping the child's arm with force when the child is crossing a road full of traffic) but is ineffectual and potentially destructive for the parent — child relationship in cases where there is no real or immediate danger.

Some of these «precursor outcomes» (e.g., heightened vigilance and preparedness for threats; enhanced inflammatory and humoral responses to infectious microorganisms) appear to be aimed at protection from immediate dangers; they may reflect «adaptive trade - offs» that balance short - term survival advantages under harsh rearing conditions against disadvantages manifested later in development.