Sentence examples for behind a system from inspiring English sources

The mayor, and his potential opponents, should seize this moment to uphold the principles behind a system that works.

The Proálcool programme ended with a hangover around 1990 as oil prices fell and cane growers switched back from ethanol to sugar, infuriating drivers of ethanol-only cars.But it left behind a system for distributing ethanol to petrol stations which suddenly looks like a national treasure, thanks to two recent developments.

When Mayor John V. Lindsay pushed through decentralization of the schools more than 30 years ago, he ended up angering community groups by not giving them the control they wanted, alienating the teachers' union and ultimately leaving behind a system that is widely regarded as having failed the children.

"I saw my mother doing great work, but it was the most humiliating and depressing thing to watch her fundraise, to try and bang on the doors of the donor establishment, because she came from a local NGO," says Ali. "I left the US thinking I was going to leave behind a system of institutionalised racism.

I hope and pray that we will leave behind a system where we can say with some confidence that we can keep bad things from happening".

Even when I worked in fashion, I struggled to understand the reasoning behind a system that kept designers "creating" at a relentless rate, so stores could fill their racks with winter sweaters come July, and bikinis shortly after Christmas.

The "frustrated optimists" describe a country whose people are falling behind, a political system increasingly paralyzed and institutions that seem ever more inadequate to meet ever more intractable challenges.

Compared to their GOP counterparts, however, they're more inclined to think that at least some people have benefited -- a difference that could reflect either greater contentment, or, less optimistically, a sense that they're being left behind in a system that's allowing others to get ahead.

Black people are brutalized everyday by police, by a financial system that has left most of us behind, an education system that has left generations of our people handicapped in a growing world, and neighborhoods that have aesthetically chosen despair over hope.

Although it's now widely believed the 1- to 2-meter-high structures (seen above) help with ventilation exchanging stale air for fresh in the insect's hidden nest the mechanics behind such a system have remained a puzzle.

The strategy behind such a system would be to use a sequencing technique to explicitly define the major oligosaccharides (ten or less sugars) from the partial degradation of the chain by one or more schemes.