survival of the fittest

survival | Business English

survival
noun[ U ]
uk /səˈvaɪvəl/us
the state of continuing to exist, and not to fail or be destroyed:
His main concern is to ensure his own political survival.
The survival of the company in such difficult economic times is very uncertain.
 survival of the fittest
the idea that only the strongest can succeed:
Unfettered competition has led to survival of the fittest, with a few large companies reaping huge profits while small companies have been driven out of business.

Examples of survival

survival
In contrast, survival was not reduced under stressful rearing conditions.
How to do good things with words : a social pragmatics for survival.
Patients may have associated additional survival with an acceleration in worsening health, thereby causing the increasing concavity in utility for time observed.
These studies suggest that patient self-rated health predicted survival independently.
The window opens when aphids are abundant enough for sufficient survival of larvae developing from eggs.
Such ' controlled ' transitions would themselves help to explain many undemocratic survivals, but we also need to look at the nature of political competition.
Theoretically, unifocalization would help, but is very unlikely to be good enough for long term survival.
Ultimately, long-term field data on tree seedling survival and growth will provide further insights into species regeneration responses during tropical rain forest succession.
A visual cold tolerance score was always related to better winter survival.
The stroke incidence and survival spreadsheets include categorization by both "first-ever" and "recurrent stroke" rates for the three treatment pathways.
We also examined the effect of brimonidine on other cell survival-signaling pathways.
However, the actual observed data show that the conditional expected survival time is higher in the enalapril group (941) compared with the placebo group (774).
Acknowledging the prior operation of group selection provides an evolutionarily coherent explanation of the survival of human behavioral predispositions that enable social cooperation.
The survival for the first year was estimated by multiplying the matrix detailing the monthly probabilities by itself between 1 and 12 times.
Data on survival and costs, and a majority of screening probabilities, were from our own empirical studies.
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basic survival
And these people depend for their basicsurvival on fishing.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
chance of survival
If there is no special obligation, you should give each person the highest equal chanceofsurvival.
continued survival
Other species communicate and depend for their continuedsurvival on successful communication.
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