Sentence examples for by gradation from inspiring English sources

For instance, bird differs from bird by gradation, or by excess and defect; some birds have long feathers, others short ones, but all are feathered.

Dutton quotes Darwin's hope that in the distant future, psychology "will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation".

And I pondered: Wouldn't it be marvellous, and an ideal illustration of brotherhood, if we could just line up everyone in the world by gradation, with the English people right at the front?

In other words, we have to describe the attributes common to all animals, or to assemblages, like the class of Birds, of closely allied groups differentiated by gradation, or to groups like Man not differentiated into subordinate groups.

Different participation levels are followed by gradation of power in decision making [ 46].

Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.

But even more ambitiously, they are looking to upend the entire bridal wear industry, which typically measures innovation by gradations of off-white to ivory to blush.

The meat combination ($15) has a lineup of two beef-sirloin wetts, differentiated by gradations of cardamom, and lamb simmered with caramelized onions.

One piece is about the "brown-bag test," once a popular method for determining social exclusion by gradations in skin color.

It also fails to recognise that climate change happens by gradations, each level of which is increasingly bad for humans and birds alike.

In social terms, it featured the end of an order characterized by an imperial retinue at the top and massive slavery at the bottom, that order's replacement by gradations of feudal vassalage descending from lord to serf, and the eventual appearance of a bourgeois society with distinct classes of workers, landlords, and entrepreneurs.