Sentences with phrase «only lost its capacity»

When mangroves, seagrasses or tidal marshes are destroyed, they not only lose their capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, but also emit carbon that is estimated to have accumulated over thousands of years.

Not exact matches

When Foster finally bought Elyria, in August 1983, the foundry was operating at barely 15 % capacity, it was losing some $ 3 million a year on annualized sales of $ 4 million, and it employed only 107 people.

Thus the word itself recedes into the background, and we are left talking only about the politics of interpretation, having lost the capacity to perform interpretations.

When man regards nature only as something to be exploited for immediate gain without concern for the whole good it is meant to serve, he loses even his capacity to make full use of nature.

Having lost faith in the capacity of religion to reveal truth, the culture and its artists sought to find meaning in the only place that was left — the world as it appears.

But to lose faith in it for this specious reason (as if a high incidence of adultery casts doubt on the validity of marriage) is to lose faith not only in literature but in the mind's capacity to make those nonlinear leaps beyond present certainties that give Einstein an occupation and Hawking precedent for his dream of grand unification.

This capacity is never lost but needs only to be purified to be raised to God Himself.

She is probably the only candidate with the capacity to attract former Conservative voters from the south of England but she could lose the party many votes in the north - east of England and English cities.

«So if we lose the forests not only do we emit more carbon into the atmosphere we reduce our capacity to remove other carbon from the atmosphere, so it's a double whammy.»

The only consistent effect he could find was that the animals» overall capacity for memory fell in proportion to the number of neurons destroyed: The more brain cells lost, the more memories — all memories — weakened.

Oct - 4 is most consistently expressed of the pluripotency genes that we have studied, and it is switched off only in populations that have lost other measurable features of pluripotency, such as stem cell surface marker expression and the capacity for self - renewal.

When it's turned down or off completely we often lose not only our desire and interest in getting busy, but also access to our full capacities of critical thought, problem solving, personal expression, and understanding of self as well.

«Ex Machina» Just when we thought M. Night Shyamalan ruined the plot twist forever, along comes the directorial debut of screenwriter Alex Garland, which not only pulls the rug out from under us over and over again (without cheating or making us lose interest) but also has interesting things to say about technology (as embodied by Alicia Vikander «s artificially intelligent robot) and mankind's diminishing capacity to control it.

One of the most popular pieces of conventional wisdom in the national debate over education is that teachers lose the capacity to further improve student achievement after only a few years in the classroom — their effectiveness plateaus early in their careers.

But like a military general who overreaches his supply line and logistics, he lost not only his ability to keep his troops in line, but he lost the capacity to scare them into fighting for a bad battle plan.

The only limitation is that, although the wheelbase can be changed without losing battery capacity, the J1 isn't suitable for high - floor cars such as crossovers and SUVs.

Thanks to the well hidden battery and the DSG gearbox cut shorter by 16 mm, the electrified four - door can have a flat floor at the rear, while it only loses 3.3 cubic feet of luggage space compared to the regular car, as well as 2.8 gallons in fuel capacity.

Some owners on the Nissan Leaf forum have noticed that their Leaf dash only displays 11 of 12 capacity bars when the battery is fully charge, which leads them to believe they have lost some...

The total drive time is about 4 hours which means the heater would be running for 4 hours straight and still only lost about 15 % of total capacity.

As Andy notes, about the only place this really loses out is cargo capacity; with 14.9 cubic feet of cargo space in the back, the Fiesta loses out (relatively) big - time to, for example, the 18.8 cubic feet of space in the Nissan Versa Note.

Because the reclaim rate for lost cats is only 1 — 2 % and the shelter operates at capacity most of the year, the SNR program is lifesaving for about 1,200 cats each year.

The 777 - 300 offers 52 Business Class seats while the Dreamliner has just 28 so, not only is the route losing First Class, it will also see a significant drop in Business Class capacity from 15 December — that's not good for prices or for award availability.

An ethics that does not take embodied relations into account — that allows for only one perspective — ultimately loses its capacity for flexibility, and for being part of a common and shared reality.

You've only got to compare how appalled his contemporaries were by the liberties taken by Monet with how chocolate - boxy we think him now to realise that art in time loses its capacity to shake us.

~ When you refuse to debate or (as the Mannatollah does) debate only with hysterical queeny labels - #denier, #KochMachine, #antiscience, #zzzzzzzzz - eventually you lose the capacity to debate.

If you are injured in an accident that wasn't your fault, you can not only sue for your lost wages, but also your future lost wages, and possibly lost earning capacity.

These crime victims can sue for damages that can cover not only items related to their physical injuries (medical expenses, long term care in the future, etc.) but also for their financial damages (lost wages, lost future earning capacity, etc.) as well as other harm they have suffered (e.g., pain and suffering).

The second way is to calculate only the additional costs that arose from the injury and allow a full award for lost earning capacity.

You can also restrict your LPA to be used by your attorneys for example ONLY should you lose mental capacity.

Apple says it is only managing «peak performance» on iPhones where the batteries have become older and lost their capacity to hold charge.

Battery life is only a plus in that, in my experience, iPad batteries tend to last longer before they start to lose capacity, and they're smaller devices so charging lockers take less classroom space than laptop versions... But it's really not a big enough difference to accept the tradeoff in every other area.