Sentence examples for contraption that has from inspiring English sources

Trying to size up these puzzles is like gaping at a homemade contraption that has mysteriously evolved into something even its designers can no longer fathom, let alone operate and dismantle.

Japan is one of the most high tech nations in the world, yet even so a million Japanese children a year learn to calculate using a mechanical, pocket-sized contraption that has been around for millennia.

Levy was telling this story as he waited to board the Roosevelt Island Tramway — the red contraption that has moved people through the skies east of midtown since the nineteen-seventies.

"It is very important for us to understand in finance that the entire contraption that has been built up over the last thirty or forty years has so much paper in it, so much debt, so much leverage, that we probably have a fifteen- or twenty-year period of working our way out of it.

At their headquarters in Roehampton, south-west London, you'll find a series of machines all designed to test out equipment - each a charmingly home-made contraption that has the air of a mad inventor about it.

A recent study called Systematic Review of Core Muscle Activity During Physical Fitness Exercises actually looked at just about every abdominal contraption that has ever existed, and compared them all.

And those are just the machines that we think of as computers -- contraptions that have display screens and keyboards and disk drives and modems.

On Thursday, at a Niagara Falls, N.Y., souvenir shop housing a "daredevil museum," two visitors, Kim Walker, 50, a Pennsylvania homemaker, and Deanna Meadows, 49, who works for a lawyer in Texas, eyed some of the contraptions that had previously carried people over the falls, including a steel tank turned into a craft for two people (they lived) and a mangled Jet Ski (he did not).

The annual convention, which drew 800 exhibitors and 19,000 poultry men, and a few women, to the Georgia World Congress Center, featured a dizzying array of hatching, processing, packaging and rendering contraptions that have long since turned the backyard chicken coop into a relic of rural America.

Tracing the critique of mechanization back to Dada – often through imaginary contraptions that had a very real philosophical function – the MoMA exhibition artfully revealed many of the technological excesses that were becoming increasingly excessive, and foretold a future that would increasingly follow Goldberg's techno-dystopian formula: "exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimum results".

The drivers' lives are worth more than preserving norries". Union leader Sareurn has little nostalgia for the contraptions that have earned his keep for decades.