Sentence examples for a subtle means from inspiring English sources

Evolutionarily, MS has been a subtle means by which plants prevent self-pollination and increase genetic diversity (Hanson [1991]).

Such obstruction constitutes a "subtle means of intimidation," the environmental law center argued in a 128-page report called Muzzling Civil Servants: A Threat to Democracy?

This SGS model is sensitized to non-equilibrium flows, preserving the anisotropic characteristics of turbulence; this aspect makes it a subtle means to simulate the flow with strong recirculating and separation.

McComb thinks that the meow is present in a normal purr but is very quiet, and some cats learn to exaggerate the sound as a subtle means of commanding attention.

The versatility that results from the ability of the polyene chain to exist in a variety of topologically distinct forms separated by low energetic barriers provides these molecules the ability to adjust topologically to protein constraints and also presents a subtle means to influence the electronic energy levels of the carotenoid.

If your partner is a romantic interest, use flirting as a subtle means to direct your partner's steps and moves.

The biggest menace we face today -- and all civilized societies face it together -- is not intercontinental ballistic missiles but terrorism, which requires a subtler means of defense.

But they should, in addition, give a more subtle means of protection.

But explaining how those horrors play out in everyday life, through a thousand subtle means, often unexpected, like children's books, seems nearly impossible.

Therefore, we sought a more subtle means of probing how population of the reactive state influences the protein ensemble.

Taken together, this overall cognitive architecture, which has been implemented in functioning computational models, provides a rich and often subtle means of explaining a wide range of behavioral and cognitive neuroscience data.