Sentence examples for a primitive state from inspiring English sources

To follow the West blindly was a path to "a primitive state".

When Roone Arledge took over ABC Sports in 1968, televised sports was in a primitive state.

What was there but puritan censure to keep the whole city from subsiding into a primitive state?

Back when Eddie Mahe was thinking about targeting Mercury-driving Republicans, Malchow added, voter databases were in a primitive state.

His conservatism, he insisted, "prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state".

I'm reverting to a primitive state in which I forage for what's necessary, in order to pack the things that are mostly unnecessary.

They do this by reactivating dormant genes associated with pluripotency--a primitive state in which a cell has the potential to become any cell type in the body.

"For more than 20 years of war, women have been forced into a very primitive state, a lot of basic information and knowledge has been lost," she said.

Actually, it is open to question whether live electronic music is really an advance or a reversion to a more primitive state of the art, in the sense that it is the enhancement of the timbres of familiar instruments, rather than music conceived totally in terms of electronic media per se.

During dedifferentiation a terminally differentiated cell returns to a more primitive state, whereas the term transdifferentiation describes the process where a fully differentiated cell acquires characteristics of other cell types by switching its phenotype.

In the context of induced pluripotency, a central conclusion of this work is that in order to reprogram a terminally differentiated cell to a more primitive state it is necessary to supply it with sufficient "energy" to overcome the barrier holding it in the differentiated state.