Sentence examples for an abstract connection from inspiring English sources

As a consequence, speakers might have made an abstract connection between the two, much like the situation with Min [G] and Hakka /ŋ/ [cf. Ang 洪惟仁 (2012)].

Since /dz/ and /ʐ/ are the only voiced sibilant in Min and Mandarin, respectively, bilingual speakers of the two languages might have made an abstract connection between the two and thus realize Min /dz/ in a fashion similar to Mandarin /ʐ/.3 As a consequence, Mandarin retroflex realizations ranging from to are also found to be possible realizations for Min /dz/.

The more abstract connection envisions an individual crime as the analog of a document.

It is of course also possible that the [R] category was a direct negative transfer from Mandarin without the abstract connection, as both of the syllables used in the rounded environment in this study have /ʐ/-initial Mandarin cognates [cf. Ratte (2011)].

The public's abstract connection to the Union was made material by collecting images of the nation's leaders side by side with family portraits.

Ms. Pitois, according to her program note explaining the work's concept, seems to be more intrigued by the abstract connection between the performers and the audience and how perspective is "experienced in ways both infinite and discrete".

It took my mind off of how depressed I was, and using my mom's holiday recipes made me feel some abstract connection to spending time with her.

And still others look at abstract connections like Web page links that Google and other search engine companies analyze as part of the search process.

And I like that Gaga continues to explore style (with the help of the stylist Nicola Formichetti), whether backtracking through Madonna country or making more abstract connections to art and film.

The Silk Roads of the past were an abstract series of connections.

Given the overwhelming evidence of the failure of the market project of the last 30 years, it shouldn't be that hard, but clearly someone like Clegg, who cannot make the most basic connection between an abstract concept of freedom and the policies needed actually to achieve it on behalf of the majority, can never be part of the programme.