Sentence examples for a referent to from inspiring English sources

Rashid Khalidi put the case in "The Iron Cage": "Very little that Great Britain did in Palestine, or in any other colony, mandate, possession, or sphere of influence, was without a referent to its rich colonial heritage".

The term America came into use as a referent to the continents of the Western Hemisphere as early as 1507, when the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published a map naming them after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.

Yet were we to assign a referent to t, that referent would either be in the extension of P or not.

That is why the questionnaire represents a good framework document that can serve as a referent to undertake future research initiatives, as well as to analyze the study of digital competence from this point of view, to examine its usage in other contexts, to establish connections between different groups or to subject the questionnaire to a review, adaptation or change process.

For example, Harry, a student in an honors section of OrgBio, used mathematical variables primarily as a referent to underlying physical quantities and concepts ("it talks about…," "in order to maximize this whole thing…") when discussing the diffusion equation.

Specifically, we asked participants to rate size of a set of nonwords using a continuous scale, to provide open-ended descriptions of a possible referent to the nonword, and to provide free associations to the nonwords.

We used Picasso´s and Poussin´s work as a visual referent to study the code behind the painting, the mathematics hidden behind the pictorial forms".

In this type of relation the technology functions as an immediate referent to something beyond itself.

DRT does not suffer from this problem: the discourse representation construction algorithms of Kamp 1981 and Kamp and Reyle 1993 are stated in terms of functions with finite domains, and carefully talk about 'taking a fresh discourse referent' to extend the domain of a verifying function, for each new noun phrase to be processed.

Participants reporting pain can range from having acute pain at a single site to chronic pain at multiple sites, therefore, treating them as a referent group to determine if a SNP is associated with the odds of reporting no pain is a crude analysis and so the results of the logit portion of the model are not reported.

In order to further explore the influence of psychosocial factors on UCP, we plan to conduct a case-control study comparing patients with UCP with a referent group to determine if patients with UCP differ from a healthy population regarding psychosocial factors.