Sentence examples for by workings from inspiring English sources

Although the landscape features of the site are mainly derived from gravel pits and settling pools alongside the River Avon, the area was originally farmland, and the first pools were created by mining subsidence in the 1940s and 1950s caused by workings at Binley Colliery.

He is kept from doing so externally by her uncle, Sir Positive Trap, by the workings of her aunt, and internally by themselves.

"Zero Dark Thirty" is a puzzle that keeps changing and re-forming; we're held by fleeting references, by the workings of Maya's calculations.

The American Queen also offered some little-boy thrills for passengers fascinated by things nautical, especially by the workings of a modern steamboat.

In today's age of composition on computers and writing by government committee, we are struck by the workings of one man's mind expressed through a pen in his hand.

Anyone capable of being moved — or appalled — by the workings of democracy is likely to be enthralled by the intricate battle of wills surrounding the passage of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States.

But he was intrigued by the workings of the sound board that his friends manned during concerts.

There was no objective truth, only the truth-effects engendered by the workings of power and the instabilities of language.

Many of the American passengers' hundreds of family members say they are gratified by the workings of justice.

To solve the problems of synchronizing receiver and transmitter, Ant­heil proposed a tiny structure inspired by the workings of a piano roll.

Djokovic can be the idiot, but he is also the savant, a self-aware self-improver fascinated by the workings of the human psyche.