While cellulose is crystalline, strong, and resistant to hydrolysis, hemicellulose has a random, amorphous structure with little strength.

While the results overall have been impressive, many large state-owned industrial enterprises, particularly the railroad, mining, steel, and defense sectors, have remained resistant to change and the downsizing required to survive in a market-based economy.

While some few pathogens are heat resistant, modern equipment is readily able to test and identify bacteria in milk being processed.

While resistant to extreme heat and radiation, endospores can be destroyed by burning or by autoclaving.

While the action of superoxide in the pathogenesis of some conditions is strong, for instance, mice and rats overexpressing CuZnSOD or MnSOD are more resistant to strokes and heart attacks, the role of superoxide in aging must be regarded as unproven for now.

While the concept of Ṛta as an abstract, universal principle generally remained resistant to the anthropomorphic tendencies of the Vedic period, it became increasingly associated with the actions of individual deities, in particular with those of the god Varuna as the omniscient, all-encompassing sky.

While more resistant than limestone it is subject to attack by weak acids, and so performs poorly in outdoor environments subject to acid rain.

While standing trees sometimes tend to rot from the heart outward, the dry timber weathers very well, becoming silvery-grey and resistant to rotting and warping, and has traditionally been used for rural construction in the northwestern regions of Russia ( especially for roofing, in the form of thin slats ).

While teeth are more resistant to chemical and physical changes over time, both are subject to post-depositional diagenesis.

While an initial pesticide application may be necessary to control heavy infestations, repeated applications may lead to strains of whiteflies that are resistant to pesticides, so only use of selective insecticides is advised.

While the West was relatively resistant to midriff-baring clothing until the 1980s, it has long been a fashion with Indian women.

While much of the settlement was moving toward the Métis point of view, a passionately pro-Canadian minority was becoming more resistant.

While extreme weather conditions ( cold and wind ) increase the risk of frostbite it appears that certain individuals and population groups appear more resistant to milder forms of frostbite, perhaps due to longer term exposure and adaptation to cold weather environments.

While Shaw is highly resistant to injury, especially kinetic ones, even he can be damaged by powerful enough blows, and his reliance on punches has been used against him on occasion ; Nightcrawler once tried to defeat Shaw by wrestling him, thus avoiding delivering any blows that would empower Shaw.

While the knot can become jammed in some modern materials, it is usually easily untied after moderate loads ; it can be made more resistant to jamming by taking an extra turn around the object -- this will make for a 1-diameter longer span of the end to reach around the standing part to be tucked ( although in a case of tying to a small shackle or link of a chain, this might not be possible ).

While being highly resistant to physical damage, their near invincibility does not extend to bullets or laser blasts.

While the 7. 62mm Armalite AR-10 proved fairly resistant to malfunctions caused by deposit fouling, the smaller 5. 56mm M16 rifle experienced significantly increased malfunctions due to fouling and carbon deposits after a change in propellant specifications.

While over 30 different types of wood can be used, the most desirable rot resistant woods are Pacific yew, bald cypress ( new growth ), cedars, and juniper.

While Gorbachev was able to receive approval for his reforms from the party, the membership of the CPSU was becoming increasingly resistant to Gorbachev's policies and rather than being a locus for change became a bulwark of conservatism.

While metals do become slightly more resistant at higher temperatures, this class of ceramics ( often barium titanate and lead titanate composites ) has a highly nonlinear thermal response, so that it becomes extremely resistant above a composition-dependent threshold temperature.

While more resistant to thermal shock than other types of glass, borosilicate glass can still crack or shatter when subject to rapid or uneven temperature variations.

While the union's members were often called on to support other unions ' strikes, since their role in transport brought them in contact with workers in many other unionized industries, and had developed strong traditions of solidarity in some areas, the International Union itself was cautious to the point of resistant to any use of the strike weapon.

While LMS tends to be resistant to radiation and chemotherapy, each case is different and results can vary widely.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

While most of his beliefs were still unsettled, he knew that he did not believe in killing.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

While 2-year-olds are still gaining most of the attention at the track, green horses are starting to go a bit, and Jimmy Cruise has several that can really make it.

While some suppression and some denial are not only necessary but healthy, the worker's clinical knowledge must determine how these defenses are being used, what healthy shifts in defensive adaptation are indicated, and when efforts at bringing about change can be most effectively timed.

While patent suits are still among the most complex and expensive forms of litigation, these rules have saved litigants uncounted sums of money.

While both sexes state that kindness is the most preferable trait in a partner there is some evidence that men place less value on this than women and that women may not be more altruistic in presence of an attractive man.

While most alphabets have letters composed of lines ( linear writing ), there are also exceptions such as the alphabets used in Braille, fingerspelling, and Morse code.

While not all Southerners saw themselves as fighting to preserve slavery, most of the officers and over a third of the rank and file in Lee's army had close family ties to slavery.

While most everyone has an experience with anxiety at some point in their lives, as it is a common reaction to real or perceived threats of all kinds, most do not develop long-term problems with anxiety.

While casuistry makes use of ethical theory, it does not view ethical theory as the most important feature of moral reasoning.

While the amount of winter snowfall varied greatly, the Ancient Pueblo depended on the snow for most of their water.

While in the city, there are many buses and taxi services one can take to get from place to place, but most of the locals choose to walk to their destinations.

While these positions were well suited for most of his local constituency, this was not the case when he stepped outside that region politically.

While owning steel works, Carnegie had purchased at low cost the most valuable of the iron ore fields around Lake Superior.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

While some fans applauded the redesign, most of the reaction to the new color scheme, which included the changing of the historical purple and traditional Arizonan colors of copper and turquoise to a reddish color known as " Sedona Red " similar to that of the Phoenix Coyotes and Arizona Cardinals color schemes, was pointedly negative.

While a flood will kill most plants living low on the ground in a certain area, if there is rice there, it will thrive in the wet conditions.

While flame and electrothermal vaporizers are the most common atomization techniques, several other atomization methods are utilized for specialized use.

While " distortion " can include arbitrary deformation of an image, the most pronounced modes of distortion produced by conventional imaging optics is " barrel distortion ", in which the center of the image is magnified more than the perimeter ( figure 7a ).

While in the view of most American academics the two were as diametrically opposed as good and evil, Sakharov believed that in this " tragic confrontation of two outstanding people ," both deserved respect, because " each of them was certain he had right on his side and was morally obligated to go to the end in the name of truth.