Sentence examples for as a parenthesis from inspiring English sources

President Mitterrand famously referred to the Vichy years as a "parenthesis" that did not represent a true and republican France.

Liberals (who preferred Adlai Stevenson) generally remember the Eisenhower administration as a parenthesis between heroic Democratic epochs, while conservatives (who favored Robert Taft) recall a holding pattern before their Goldwater-to-Reagan ascent.

It should be kept in mind that the Course does not belong to Comte's initial program and that it originally was meant as a parenthesis, or prelude, that was supposed to take a few years at most.

The Course was not part of the initial project, which Comte never lost sight of; the work is best considered as a parenthesis, admittedly open for twenty years, but which Comte had meant to close very quickly.

Thésards thus evoked the thesis not as a transitional threshold but as a parenthesis in their passage from student to professional; a moment suspended between many possible ways of being a pharmacist and the limited range of opportunities offered by the Senegalese job market.

Erdoğan's foreign minister has characterized the twentieth century as "only a parenthesis," and has called upon Turks to recover their "ancient values," to "again tie Sarajevo to Damascus, Benghazi to Erzurum and to Batumi".

One GP stated that she was sure that a patient she had known for years saw her refusal as 'just a parenthesis' in their relationship.

dpositive selection tests that were significant (P < 0.05); for genes that showed evidence of recombination with multiple tests, results are shown in a parenthesis as recombination may affect the positive selection analyses.

apositive selection tests that were significant (Q < 0.2) are listed; TO = overall test; Ch# = Choleraesuis branch specific test; Ty# = Typhi branch specific test; for genes that showed evidence of recombination, results are shown in a parenthesis as recombination may affect the positive selection analyses.

The word "But" is not among them, though it's one she has met, in open deprecation or as a silent parenthesis, when her books are reviewed.

I thought a powerful story was a relaxing respite from metrics, serving more or less as a colorful parenthesis within an analytical argument.