Sentence examples for cockroach theory from inspiring English sources
"It's the cockroach theory," one analyst said.
"It's the cockroach theory," said Anthony M. Maramarco, portfolio manager at the Babson Value Fund in Cambridge, Mass.
Thomas Galvin, a Credit Suisse analyst, described the technology troubles as "the cockroach theory -- where there is one, there is going to be a whole lot of them".
Mr. Greenwood acknowledged the countervailing "cockroach theory -- if you see one cockroach going across the floor, there's a pretty good chance there are others behind the baseboard".
Bob Brinker Bob Brinker of Bob J. Brinker's Marketimer says he doesn't follow Tyco, but that he's a firm believer in the cockroach theory.
Were something, e.g. a virus or humankind, to kill all the metazoan species on Earth with the exception of a single cockroach species, classical evolutionary theories argue this species would differentiate into many new phyla with radically different body plans to exploit all the available niches.
As part of its IntelligentEngine vision (which the company announced at the Singapore Airshow earlier this year), it demonstrated plans for both a robotic snake and swarm of cockroach-like miniature robots that, in theory, will work together to inspect the interior of aircraft engines without removing the entire engine.
archy is an exception – a vers libre poet trapped in the body of a cockroach, the result not of a magical transformation but of Pythagoras's theory of the transmigration of souls after death.
One theory is that domestic bedbugs surged after pest control companies stopped spraying for cockroaches in the 1980s and switched to poisoned baits, which bedbugs do not eat.
The frozen plasticity theory explicitly argues [ 3] that it would differentiate into many new species of cockroaches, leaving most niches empty.
