Sentence examples for consisting either of from inspiring English sources
This, incidentally, rams home the importance of requiring all banks to have fat capital cushions, consisting either of equity or bonds that can be bailed in during a crisis.
In fact, an American security firm, Verisign's iDefense Labs, issued a report pointing to "a single foreign entity consisting either of agents of the Chinese state or proxies thereof".
In 2004 and 2005, 690 pollen traps were arranged at different locations relative to three maize fields: in the maize fields itself, and in fields adjacent to the maize fields, consisting either of grassland or wheat stubble.
We present different microfluidic designs with reaction zones consisting either of a long meandering channel or a short expansion channel to realize the different reaction times required for the respective model systems.
The carbon vapor molecules were produced by evaporating carbon powder (consisting either of natural carbon 12C or of 99% enriched 13C) in a Knudsen cell heated to about 2500 K.
The state-transition Markov models utilised in the five studies were reasonably simple in structure, consisting either of three to four health states ('non-demented/non-AD', 'Mild cognitive impairment', 'demented/AD' and 'dead') or five to six states, where 'demented/AD' was further broken down into various degrees of severity.
"My dress sense at that age consisted either of batik shirts or kilts," Rory recalled.
"For the previous half century, travel writing seemed to consist either of grim, extended journeys through desolate landscapes or jokes about foreigners".
Most of the rest consisted either of aid to distressed families or aid to hard-pressed state and local governments.
Joe was a bit surprised by how old and portly some of the male journalists were, though: it seems that the whole staff consists either of old male farts or young, slim women, which seems a bit odd.
Only about half of our foreign aid budget is for "humanitarian and development" purposes; the other half is justified by "national security" -- that is, it consists either of military aid or of financial assistance to governments that play some role in our defense strategy.
