A complex system of internal levers ensured that if an earthquake ever disturbed the vessel, a ball would drop from a dragon's care into the mouth of a bronze frog positioned underneath.
And taxes on landlines are the basis of the complex system of subsidies to ensure universal service, meaning an affordable phone line for all.The phone network is thus not just a technical infrastructure, but a socioeconomic one.
David Albright, a former UN weapons inspector who now runs an independent thinktank, the Institute for Science and International Security (Isis), said the device, first described in a 2009 article in the Guardian, relies on a complex system to ensure a large number of explosives are triggered simultaneously.
Passenger jets have to operate complex systems to ensure that the air within the cabin remains breathable for passengers and crew, even at high altitudes.
We build complex systems to ensure flow.
There is always a lot of back-room bargaining, during which legislative leaders massage the state's complex system of more than 45 separate financing streams for schools to ensure that no one goes home with less money.
Enthusiastic teachers and administrators may be willing to try something new, but the complex system of national and state standards, assessments, discrete content domains, bell schedules, funding policies, etc. ensures an equilibrium centered on content coverage.
Others have discussed a complex system of trading development rights.
It also uses a much more complex system of software.
Now that everything and everyone is connected, we are one big complex system (actually we're a mega complex system of complex systems).
