Sentence examples for deceptive system from inspiring English sources

The justice department states the arms firm operated a deceptive system of parallel overt and covert payments to its agents, who could then use the secret supplies of cash to pay bribes.

Too many families across our country are desperately trying to navigate a haphazard, confusing and often deceptive system of recovery.

The CDM then, is but another opportunity for multinational companies to "green wash" their image and a deceptive system that permits industrial countries to offset their carbon emissions through funding the destruction of "local landscapes, local ecosystems, and local communities".

In a deceptive system, a taller stem may increase the probability of pollinator attraction, but the visitor is expected to quickly depart after receiving no compensation for its efforts.

It's one of the most sophisticated deceptive systems thus far described for orchids, says Phillips.

Thus the relative frequency of instantaneous (non-adaptive) pollinator shifts, such as between sexually deceptive systems (e.g. floral volatiles mimicking insect sex pheromones) or between euglossine pollinators, relative to the other two forms gives us insights into the degree to which macroevolution might be decoupled from microevolution.

Although food deceptive systems may increase pollen limitation compared with rewarding ones, it may be more advantageous to produce fewer, but higher quality fruits than producing additional lower quality (selfed) offspring, as seen in our 2011 data (in which seed mass substantially decreased with hand self-pollination) and several others (e.g. Tremblay et al. 2004; Jersáková et al. 2006).

Rather, it results from the outmoded, inequitable, and deceptive pyramid system that currently exploits grad students' and postdocs' cheap labor and high aspirations.

And a deceptive delivery system.

The presence of a deceptive pollination system may explain why our results with C. candidum are contrary to reports in the literature involving non-orchids.

Our study quantifies a three-way interaction between plants, pollinators and seed predators in a deceptive orchid system in which mutualists and antagonists are exerting concordant, reinforcing selection on a plant trait, reproductive stem height.