Sentence examples for descent system from inspiring English sources

"We got Beagle to the right place, so most of its descent system must have worked.

Thus, while descent through the male line was notionally preferred, in practice the descent system was often bilateral traced through either or both parents.

But Nasa has high confidence the rocket-powered descent system designed for MSL-Curiosity can put it inside a target zone less than 20km across.

The Americans, though, have a good recent record and they believe a new rocket-powered descent system will be able to place the rover very precisely in one of the most exciting locations on the planet.

But the Americans have a good recent record and they believe a new rocket-powered descent system will be able to place the rover in one of the most exciting locations on the planet.

The Thales Alenia Space France-led consortium was awarded the contract for the design, development and manufacturing of the Entry and Descent System under Thales Alenia Space Italy mission prime.

A characteristic of the descent line system is its flexibility.

Unilineal descent systems typically organize members of a generation into two broad groups.

Later developments in the social sciences resulted in the emergence of a positivist cross-cultural project, associated with George P. Murdock at Yale University, which applied statistical methods to a sample of world cultures and attempted to establish universal functionalist relationships between forms of marriage, descent systems, property relationships, and other variables.

Many inland natives adopted potlatching and coastal descent systems.

Outside of Mozambique, ethnic groups with patrilineal descent systems typically result in a younger age at first marriage for women and a larger age gap between a husband and a younger wife [ 65].