Within an American realm defined by the reach of its armed forces or its television signals, it is American sports that rule: basketball in the former colony of the Philippines; baseball in once-occupied Japan and in Cuba.
It imagines two realms, defined by separate glass panels.
We stress that there is no particular reason to define 30 regions (Fig. 1), but when doing so we find few similarities between the 30 realms defined by COS1 (see Fig. 2 in ref.1) and those yielded by the proper dissimilarity measure (βsim, Fig. 2a).
Disproportion in scale is the very definition of modernity, starting with Hamlet as the bounded king of infinite space and continuing to Cartesian imagination, Joycean consciousness, Freudian unconsciousness, and the atomic and intergalactic (and for that matter microbiological and prehistoric) realms defined by science.
Marquand is a fierce defender of the public realm, defined on his terms: collective provision with limited individual choice.
Television occupies a vast majority of the social realm once defined by streets, town halls, public squares.
I suppose that certain constraints — the physical realm defined, as it were — give me a sense of concreteness, of dimension in space and historical, personal time.
Our realms were defined by using both these statistical methods and knowledge of the species composition of the underlying data to consider sampling bias, and then compared with prior expert classifications (see Fig. 2 and Supplementary Table 4 in ref. 1).
In the realm of soft power (a term defined by Joseph Nye, a Harvard professor and former senior official, as a country's ability to persuade or influence others without the threat of force), China has only recently begun to play a global part.
We are in a realm here where, usually unbeknown to them, characters are living in a present defined by a fictional history.
