Sentence examples for better element from inspiring English sources

The better element took a printing press away from Davis lately.

The days when "jacket required" was enough to ensure a better element of patron began dying after World War II, said Anne Hollander, a fashion historian and author of "Seeing Through Clothes".

There is no explicit reason given for moving the earth; Aristotle reports that some others (Platonists?; see Kingsley 1995, 175 80) thought it should be moved because fire was thought to be a "better" element than earth and hence to belong at the center of the cosmos, which is a position of honor (Arist., De Caelo 293b2).

Along with the businessmen professionals and other "better" elements of the race, there migrated to Harlem much of the vice and crime from its previous districts downtown.

Cicero portrayed him as a cultured gentleman, poet, and student of philosophy who sought to blend the better elements of Greek and Roman culture.

Actually, as I've played with the new iPhone 4S, I've been struck by how nicely it incorporates some of the better elements of Android phones.

As materials become scarcer and the impact of their use becomes more obvious, designers can no longer be content with making a product that has better elements or is "less bad" than its competitors in terms of its sustainable credentials.

The hope is to take only the better elements into the new army and police, and to send the others back to civilian life.Germany is advising the government on police training and recruitment.

As a result, the virtues of each form of government, namely, a strong executive, the involvement of the "better" elements of society, and popular legitimacy, theoretically could be obtained without the corresponding vices.

Unlike his more purist namesake in Clerkenwell, Takahashi is happy to fish from his Nobu roots, retaining the better elements – a version of that famous black cod; South American touches with ceviches and salsas – while ditching the less attractive (basically everything about Nobu other than the food).

"I took the better elements, then tried to build on them.