The phrase "a system for tracing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a method or technology designed to track or monitor something, such as data, objects, or processes.
Example: "The company implemented a system for tracing the shipment of goods to ensure timely delivery."
Alternatives: "a method for tracking" or "a framework for monitoring".
He said that public-health officials needed to intervene early, and that meant they ought to develop a system for tracing the contacts of those who had become infected with H.I.V. Medically, the suggestion made sense.
There is a system for tracing bullets and shells back to the weapons that fired them and those weapons back to their owners, a system that would turn the guessing game of finding this killer into a science, but the system has been blocked by the N.R.A. because it smacks of a national gun registry.
Congress could relieve consumers and food producers alike with a comprehensive food-safety bill that would require a system for tracing food, better oversight of food-safety plans by producers and more authority for the F.D.A. to investigate and recall tainted products.
A system for tracing those LTFU through phone calls and direct home visits has also been established.
The governor's plan would give New York the toughest gun restrictions in the nation, from requiring trigger locks with new handguns to instituting a computerized system for tracing bullets to the guns that fired them.
This summer's discovery of a cow in Canada that was infected with mad cow disease has been another cause of concern, and Mr. Stenholm said he did think that Congress might have to "fast forward" on creating a better system for tracing animals.
The N.R.A. is opposed, for example, to the creation of a national computerized system for tracing bullets and shell casings to the guns that fired them -- a crime-fighting tool that has come to be known as "ballistic fingerprinting".
A18 The White House said that it had asked federal law enforcement experts to study whether creating a national computerized system for tracing bullets and shell casings to the guns that fired them would be an effective crime-fighting tool.
In "A Way to Trace Bullets" (editorial, Oct. 17), you point out that President Bush "needs to lead" on the issue of creating a "computerized national system for tracing bullets and cartridge casings to the guns that fired them".
Nervous citizens can only hope that the Bush administration is serious about exploring the possibilities of a computerized national system for tracing bullets and cartridge casings to the guns that fired them.
Recently diverged populations of the malt fly, Drosophila montana, with their circumpolar distribution, provide an excellent model system for tracing the onset of reproductive barriers in the early stages of speciation, as a wealth of information concerning this species' ecology, mating system, life history, genetics and phylogeography is available.
