Sentence examples for a conventional element from inspiring English sources

It became established as a conventional element of fiction, especially first-person narratives.

Because she swam without stockings in 1919, she was given a summons for "nude swimming"; the subsequent public support for Bleibtrey led to the abandonment of stockings as a conventional element in women's swimwear.

Sarkar and Margules (2002) discuss the role of biodiversity surrogates, arguing that even the relative concept of complementarity has a "conventional" element built into it because it relies on "estimator" surrogates (say, a set of butterfly species) for "true" surrogates (say, the use of species as the basis for assessing complementarity of places).

Accordingly, most writers on the semantics of quantity-terms have avoided espousing an operational analysis.[11] A more widely advocated approach admitted a conventional element to the use of quantity-terms, while resisting attempts to reduce the meaning of quantity terms to measurement operations.

This cutoff point, he thinks, can only be specified as a matter of convention, but this conventional element does not threaten the objectivity of diagnoses.

The validation of the present box beam element is demonstrated through a series of comparative studies using a conventional shell element and a box beam element proposed by other researchers.

The inputs to each chaotic element, as with a conventional logic element, are binary: that is, either 0 or 1.

"Call Me" is less a made-for-television movie than an extension of the 50's French nouveau roman; Fleiss's immorality tale is told without almost any conventional elements like dramatic plotting, moral precepts or psychological insight.

They defend this conventional element: "a philosophical point, widely appreciated by philosophers of science, but often not explicitly acknowledged by scientists, deserves to be noted in relation to this: conventional elements almost always enter into theoretical reasoning in science (Nagel 1961; Sarkar 1998).

These are a conventional finite element (FE) method and a wavenumber finite element (WFE) method, each of which can include the effects of cross-sectional deformation.

The third conventional element of a YAC, autonomous replication sequences, has not been identified in Plasmodium.