Sentence examples for and thus setting from inspiring English sources

Clef, (French: "key") in musical notation, symbol placed at the beginning of the staff, determining the pitch of a particular line and thus setting a reference for, or giving a "key" to, all notes of the staff.

Accurate measurements of crop production in smallholder farming systems are critical to the understanding of yield constraints and, thus, setting the appropriate agronomic investments and policies for improving food security and reducing poverty.

If the Republicans cannot achieve their desired cuts in Medicare, they cannot get the tax cuts unless they scramble to slash elsewhere--sqeezing more from Medicaid, another volatile issue, and thus setting the contesting intra-party factions and Presidential candidates loose on an uncharted budget battlefield.

What really worries me, though, is that our response to all this may be to burrow deeper into our own cynicism, ultimately reinforcing the gang that owns the patent on cynicism and thus setting us up for another helping of the same.

And all of this is happening, he adds, because "a bunch of folks" are sitting around in the offices of an almost defunct magazine "brain-storming about what they will choose to count … and not count" and thus setting in motion "a phenomenon that is reshaping the internal composition of law schools".

The artifacts signal was created by randomly taking 1% of the time-frequency coefficients of the target source (and thus setting 99% of the time-frequency coefficients to zero) and synthesizing this very sparse signal.

Selfishly, under the guise of a faint notion of "independence", I had so manfully been in denial – and thus set everything back.

Tonight's airstrikes were originally intended to begin the allied offensive and, thus, set the stage for the land campaign, military officials said.

The merger may hinge on the willingness of lawyers for Enron shareholders to settle quickly, and thus set a limit on Andersen's financial liabilities.

They carry with them some large portion of their existing cost structure and operating style, and thus set prices at levels that limit market penetration.

They retain some large portion of their existing cost structure and operating style, and thus set prices that limit market penetration.