Sentence examples for contrived system from inspiring English sources

White Hegemony is a carefully calibrated, deliberately contrived system which continues to prevent persons of color from attaining and asserting influence that is at least commensurate with the percentage of the African American population in the United States.

When Cao returned to My Tho, he put an end to Vann's elaborately contrived system of joint planning.

That it will crown the number one team in the country, though, via a contrived system of polls and computer rankings, is a more dubious distinction.

Decades before the Civil Rights movement emerged, communities across the nation had contrived a system of electoral exclusion that depended on a witch's brew of poll taxes, literacy tests and "good character" clauses.

skye sherwin Modern Art Oxford, Sat to 18 Oct SS The 19th-century autodidact George Boole not only rose to the position of first professor of mathematics at Queen's College Cork, he also contrived mindboggling systems of "Boolean" algebra and symbolic logic that can be seen as precursors of today's computer science and microelectronic engineering.

And it was in this place - so legend had it - that King Christian housed the Royal Orchestra, not in the State Rooms, but underneath them, contriving a system of pipes and ducts which transported the music upwards, while allowing the musicians themselves to remain hidden.

This paper describes a testing system contrived to perform the tensile strength test, elastic modulus tests and the creep tests subject to direct tension under controllable temperature and relative humidity conditions.

He attributed this situation to the state of the social system contrived for the advantage of a small group of people.

For Jordan Spieth, one of the top three golfers in the world today largely because of his victories at The Masters and U.S. Open this year, moving day at the DBChampionship, the de facto "quarterfinals" of the PGA Tour's contrived FedExCup playoff system, came at its regular time on Saturday.

College football names a champion through its Bowl Championship Series a system seemingly contrived to produce a disputed title.

It's hard to imagine a system better contrived to foster dependency, enable paranoia and promote dysfunction.