Sentences with phrase «elaborate system»

So they created elaborate systems for gathering information on external and internal threats to their revolution.

The more elaborate systems allow an owner to set up an electric «fence» to keep the dog within a certain boundary, although this has very limited training value.

Instead of starting out feeling overwhelmed or getting in over my head by creating elaborate systems, I prefer to start with a plan so simple I know I can keep up with it.

It wasn't the most elaborate system, mostly just a loop.

More elaborate systems incorporate «rear cross traffic alert» — which specifically looks for other vehicles crossing the car's path — or the ability to apply the brakes.

Known for videos depicting women engaging in elaborate systems of production that often harvest their own body...

The recognition of native title by the High Court in 1992 was a recognition that law did govern Aboriginal society when sovereignty was acquired by the British and that Indigenous law was a subtle and elaborate system which provided a reasonably stable order of society.

Some researchers and custody evaluators have developed elaborate systems and tools for assessing PAS in the context of formal evaluations (e.g., Kelly & Johnston, 2005) and might be reviewed for appropriateness of therapeutic fit.

In our couples therapy practice, we've seen couples with elaborate systems in which they assign a point value to different tasks and attempt to balance the sheet.

Cheyney Thompson's work is often based on elaborate systems used to generate paintings; here he provides a pattern as a form of activated wallpaper, covering an entire wall of the exhibition and serving as a backdrop for one particularly iconic VALIE EXPORT self - portrait, Action Pants: Genital Panic, 1969 - 2001.

In the new building, we were able to hoist it up through the elevator shaft, using a very elaborate system of custom - designed trusses and winches.

With each character's varied tower defenses, you can set up elaborate systems based on many different types of strategies — choke points, mine fields, and other techniques will vary based on your own personal preference, and that will probably stem from which character class you use for melee combat.

Chicago's new elaborate system of buoys and statistical models will monitor 16 of the city's 24 beaches, and Park District officials are seeking grant money from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand the system to cover all beaches by next summer.

Of course, the cost of maintaining a checking account seems to keep increasing every year, and the only way to avoid the fees is through elaborate systems of automatic transfers and minimum balances.

Ptolemy's ancient elaborate system of «epicycles» — a brilliant design to map out the heavens — falls just short, placing the earth at its center.

It's just that we've built elaborate systems around safeguarding that money, like banks, federal deposit insurance, and credit ratings.

Analyzed and elaborated system requirements from User Requirement Documents for quarterly development releases

They have a very elaborate system for that.

Chimps stick to simple behavioural norms, but we humans, with our language skills and greater brainpower, have developed much more elaborate systems of rules, taboos and etiquette

of course, had elaborated a system in which being was defined as potentiality for becoming in the creative process, and Bergson earlier has argued someone ought to invent such a system.

MileagePlus also has one of the most elaborate system of benefits for its frequent fliers.

As our first test track got underway, we were surprised to find that not only was the vocal full - bodied, but it possessed a life - like presence that we expect from much more elaborate systems.

But it's mostly an elaborate system of business education, teaching employees to understand — and take responsibility for — the numbers that govern SRC's financial health every week and every month.

Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel long suspected the elaborate system, but it took until the filming of the show to confirm it.

Naming firms have elaborate systems for creating new names and they know their way around the trademark laws.

Those lawmakers accused Apple of setting up an elaborate system overseas to stash cash and avoid tax payments on at least $ 74 billion in profits between 2009 and 2012, facts that were uncovered in a Senate investigation on Monday.

For a few years, Stephen Harper viewed political strategy as something more than an elaborate system for the prosecution of grudges.

Much painstaking work remains to be done to elaborate this system.

The sectaries of Qumran had made them into an elaborate system.

The purpose of these elaborate systems is to prepare people for particular jobs and professions and to be leaders in the world of business.

One parish develops an elaborate system for hiding its display, issuing awkward campaign letters that barely mention the subject, publishing no budget, and treating the Sunday offering as an embarrassing moment to be quickly concluded.

A Salt Lake Tribune article from 2013 details the health problems missionaries can face — both physical and psychological — and describes «an elaborate system for helping missionaries and their families cope» when missionaries must return early.

He defends himself by an elaborate system of alibis and self - deception from the truth that his drinking is out of control.

In responding to such questions the church develops an elaborate system of apologetic theology and of moral rules much like those against which Jesus and Paul protested.

Sexism is an elaborate system of handicaps that males erect around women to make female potency appear to be the point of their weakness and dependency, thereby suppressing from cultural consciousness the truth of male dependency.

There is an elaborate system of sensors and alarms now to give those down the mountain a heads up.

«Some governments conceal executions and enforce an elaborate system of secrecy to hide who is on death row, and why,» Guterres said.

Times Union state editor Casey Seiler gets a guided tour of what lies beneath the Capitol complex, and the elaborate system that keeps it cool in summer and warm in winter.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, the elaborate system of murex cultivation and dye production established by the Romans disappeared, and so did the purple hue itself.

NASA had set two key goals for Voyager 1 at Saturn: study the planet's elaborate system of rings and scrutinize its largest moon, Titan, whose composition resembles that of the early Earth.

Then they kept going, right into the water, and set up an elaborate system of underwater test tubes.

A similar reintroduction effort a decade ago flopped because it failed to root out the American mink population; this time the Spanish team is betting on an elaborate system of floating traps to capture them.

Another criticism concerns the elaborate systems to evaluate researchers and labs.