Video games can be like musical instruments, but they are also very often like sports, offering their players constant appraisal in the form of words or numbers.
Wiltse writes well about the slow and painful desegregation of America's public pools — the result of constant pressure, in the form of protests and lawsuits, by groups like the N.A.A.C.P. — in the 1940s and '50s.
A Cherished Town House Falls Victim to Madoff Forty-three years living in the same house: At that point, a home essentially becomes a member of the family, a constant companion in the form of a cherished piece of real estate.
The second model series was based on the previous one with only one alternation – a constant value in the form of the intercept was added.
Because these elites and constituencies do not have any core values other than self-serving instincts, their loyalty and support are fickle and must be secured by constant bribes in the form of special privileges.
The effective modulus of elasticity of a composite is the sum of two terms: a constant part in the form of a modulus of elasticity of a bulk material, and a variable part that is caused by a shift at the interphase boundary and depends on the particles size.
Farce needs constant fuel in the form of perfectly timed dialogue and shtick.
This past weekend, July 29-August 1, Beyond music festival in the Netherlands poked some fun at Berghain's ethos of constant rejection in the form of a mock, mini Berghain located inside the festival, complete with a facade modeled on the club.
ISNs receive constant input in the form of proximal process potentials (PPPs), which are the membrane potential changes produced in the cell bodies of the ISNs by action potentials conducted antidromically in their axons.
In this model, to represent a nutrient stimulus (such as decanoic acid in the lumen), ISNs received a constant input in the form of PPPs, which rapidly increase the activity in these neurons.
