Sentence examples for a primary mode from inspiring English sources

For centuries, as a primary mode of transportation, horses have helped shape our notions of personal freedom and independence.

As I watch the snail's-pace "evacuation" of potential victims of Hurricane Rita, I see once again the folly of our overdependence on the automobile as a primary mode of transportation.

Given the prominence of television as a presumptive artistic counterpart (or rival) to movies, there's less reason than ever to disdain small screens at home as a primary mode of watching films.

If Nagel is right, art itself would no longer be merely the scientist's leisure-time fulfillment but would be (I think, correctly) recognized as a primary mode of coming to grips with the mental and moral essence of the universe.

Ray Valdes, an analyst with Gartner Research, said the real-time reactions to the trial and the verdict reflected the gradual adoption of the Web as a primary mode of communication throughout the day.

Many doctors just out of medical school, like other people in their 20s, are accustomed to texting as a primary mode of communication, so they may embrace Health Taps exchange of bare-bones information.

However, alterations in the citric acid cycle (TCA cycle), an assumed primary mode of action of MPP+, could not be unambiguously deduced from our standard metabolomics data.

The distribution was focused towards a positively skewed primary mode centred about log2 Cy3/Cy5) = 0. To the left of the primary mode were far fewer absent genes than seen in the K-12 example (Fig 2a).

Many respondents (35/47, 74%) reported sometimes having difficulties in determining an outbreak's primary mode of transmission.

(28) Put simply, by such an approach, the primary mode of action of fenitrothion may not have been detected (significantly) in the brain if ACh was measured as part of a 4000-peak fingerprint.

In retrospect it is too much to expect for a new single agent, whose primary mode of action is a common alkylating path, to be highly effective in a largely chemoresistant tumour.