Sentences with phrase «example on a small scale»

Let's take an example on smaller scale.

This is an example on a small scale (so far, at least) of scientists attacked by political activists on the left.

Not exact matches

Bullying and humiliating your employees are two extreme examples of how the intimidator can operate, but intimidation can also work on a smaller scale, such as threatening to fire your employees over trivial mistakes or aggressively reminding employees of your elevated status.

We see (on a smaller scale) christians for example killing workers at clinics that provide abortions (because of the former's beliefs)-- do you deny that that is psychosis?

It works well on a small scale, for example in local markets.

Newman's model of a university has had no imitators in the UK, though there are honourable examples in the US, albeit mostly on a small scale.

There is an example of a successful attempt, on a small scale — in fact, on simply one particular point, though an important one: W. Montgomery Watt, in the Introduction to his Muhammad at Mecca (Oxford, 1953), p. x writes, «I have refrained from using the expressions «God says» and «Muhammad says» when referring to the Qur» an, and have simply said «the Qur» an says.»»

Our submission also cites egregious examples from Victoria's meat regulator PrimeSafe, the huge impact of knee - jerk changes to regulation of raw milk on small - scale dairy farms (many of whom have now gone out of business), and the complicated business of ensuring appropriate labeling of GMO and imported ingredients while not creating an extra burden for small - scale producers who sell directly to the public.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

The new defences at Mappleton are, says Pethick, «a classic example of a confrontational, small - scale approach to coastal planning on a coastline characterised by its large - scale problems».

However, its future potential uses are significantly limited by scarcity and cost, as well as the fact that platinum readily binds with carbon monoxide, which «poisons» the desired reactions, for example in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which are the leading contenders for small - scale and mobile power generation not based on batteries or combustion engines.

«This is the first example of a small molecule — which can be easily prepared and made on a large scale — that shows substantive post-exposure protection against Ebola virus in nonhuman primates,» Bavari commented.

For example, if you have a detailed tile pattern with smaller shapes on the floor, choose a larger scale, simple tile (with no pattern) on the wall so it doesn't compete with the floor.

I have experienced something similar on a much smaller scale, for when I give friends and other associates my standard introductory «mini-festival» of Hindi popular cinema, the title that consistently connects the strongest is this film — which initially surprised me, considering it's as undiluted an example as any of the very un-Hollywood masala formula: broad, often silly comedy mixed with earnest, tear - jerking sentiment, all peppered with the occasional song and dance over the course of a typically lengthy run time of just over three hours.

«Their Finest» is small - scale, as WWII movies go, but that gives you time to appreciate its characters (including Bill Nighy as a demanding aging actor with hidden softness) and the moments it captures related to the everyday horrors of war — the inconvenience / tragedy of crew members not showing up on set because they were killed in the Blitz, for example.

One such example, on a small scale, are the awards to be presented by the African American Film Critics Assn. on Wednesday.

One example of this is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's withdrawal from its small schools investments, which left districts with the burden of funding schools that were more expensive to run based on economies of scale.

An example of that on a smaller scale would be Charles Manson, who was also able to convince a group of people to slaughter others.

An issue of a magazine, for example, could include a fixed layout version (print replica) for rendering on tablet - sized screens with a reflowable version for smaller cellphone screens where the fixed layout would be scaled to illegibility (or automatically reflowed in unwanted ways if fixed layouts are not supported).

For example, on a smaller scale, if a prospective dog owner is away from home working for 8 hours a day, it would not be good for them to adopt a breed that has a history of high levels of separation anxiety and may be destructive while they are gone.

The Fall, Axiom Verge, The Swapper, and Kick and Fennick are examples of games that were smaller in scale, but delivered experiences that were on par with some of the best AAA - games out there.

Organized chronologically, the publication traces Pettibon's prolific output of his surfer series, from early small - scale monochrome India ink drawings to numerous examples from the 1990s when the artist introduced color, culminating with his recent large - scale works, some of which were executed directly on a wall.

No matter where you are, there's plenty to keep you busy until the end of the year: All around the world, from Alcatraz to Beijing, museums, galleries and other arts institutions are giving us good reason to fill our social calendars — even on the smaller scale (take the first ever showcase of all of artist Louise Bourgeois's famous hanging artworks, for example, or the limited - time, roving installation «You Belong Here,» currently afloat in neon on the Mississippi River in New Orleans).

Across the street at the New Museum, only a few examples, such as Kerstin Brätsch's large scale oil on paper pieces, Kitty Kraus» light bulb and mirror boxes commanding large areas of the third floor and Tala Madani's small scale oil paintings evidence a similar confidence in the object as a vehicle.

It goes on view to the public for the first time, along with recent artwork gifts, and spectacular pieces on loan to present examples of Furneaux's small on - site field sketches, his dramatic large - scale renderings of the eruptions, and vibrant landscape scenes.

This example highlights the much greater natural variability on small scales which makes detection of the small systematic signal, such as that might arise from enhanced greenhouse effect, much more difficult to achieve on regional scales.

The situation in Rwanda in the»90s, for example, didn't just happen because of some irrational ethnic or political agenda, it happened at least in part because too many people had too little land to support themselves, yet everyone depended on small - scale farming (average farm size on the order of a few acres) for subsistence.

Criswell discusses more traditional solar power satellites (in geosynchronous orbit); he dismisses them on a number of grounds (for example, their large size would make the number required for his 20 TW electric rather excessive — however, at a smaller scale they make a lot of sense) and I believe we can now do better than some of his numbers for regular satellites.

It can be a great technology if used on a small scale, for example in combination with adjusting energy demand to supply.

For example, Gavin's Pussycat has already pointed out that in their analysis they did not take into proper account how polar amplification results in larger swings in temperature at higher latitudes — and that when estimating temperature variation at lower latitudes on the basis of proxies at higher latitudes one has to scale down the variation, that is recognize that the swings in temperature will be smaller at those lower latitudes.

For example, consider the Head Start program, which was rigorously demonstrated to produce lasting benefits during pilot studies, but found to produce only small transient changes after being implemented on large scale for decades.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

For example, tree rings, ice cores, and corals generally show variation on an annual time scale, but borehole reconstructions rely on rates of thermal diffusion, and small scale fluctuations are washed out.

The extent that we care about the next generation is a serious philosophical argument — one which many people have to deal with on a smaller scale when they think about, for example, what they should do with their inheritance (which, incidentally, is a different argument to what you think about the next group in general, as kinship relationships get treated differently).

I have also studied, for example, the effects of snow grain shape on the reflection of solar radiation by snow, and the effects of subgrid - scale cloud features (clouds too small to be resolved by a climate model) on radiative transfer.

For example, a network engineer might work on small servers running proprietary software or large scale business systems using global applications.

Medical Clinics are smaller - scale and often focus on one niche of medicine (pediatrics or cardiology, for example).

For example, if you have a detailed tile pattern with smaller shapes on the floor, choose a larger scale, simple tile (with no pattern) on the wall so it doesn't compete with the floor.

McCloud promises that we can look forward to some examples of these efficient, small - scale builds on the new series.