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maintaining
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
It is interesting to note that the concept of natural selection as the sole force in maintaining polymorphisms went virtually unquestioned 15 years ago.
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Despite its prevalence, many young two-year-olds are uncertain about their mapping preference and thus not very committed to maintaining it.
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Raising, or at least maintaining, one's rank in the hierarchy is a perpetual battle, and turnover within the population is constant.
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Similarly, difficulties in maintaining attention to the task cannot account for the differences in success of inhibition.
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At the same time he emphasised the necessity of maintaining historical continuity as an ontological basis for society and as a creative source for architecture.
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The goals of maintaining independence and delaying functional decline in long-term care are poorly understood and inadequately researched.
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Problems exist not only with maintaining currency of information with respect to performance standards, but also in communicating connection to contemporar y ideas.
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This was unplanned and came in response to a growing problem of maintaining the standards of the critical 'experiential learning' components of the programme.
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Maintaining dual residences (with the help of relatives and friends) enables the group to maximise their social and family contacts and quality of life.
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The linear equality constraints can be readily used to reduce the total number of differential equations, while maintaining a set of ordinary differential equations.
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Thanks are due to all the nurses for maintaining the study and assisting the families involved throughout the study.
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Maintaining the balance between these two extremes is one of the most challenging tasks for a designer of controllers for local musical networks.
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These data no not suggest the exchange of vessels for the purpose of constructing and maintaining alliances.
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These hakims leaned on the court for maintaining their monopoly over medical knowledge.
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Thus, in a remarkable example of convergent evolution, different organisms have evolved different strategies for maintaining superhelical homeostasis commensurate with their particular physiologies.
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