Sociolinguists attempt to isolate those linguistic features that are used in particular situations and that mark the various social relationships among the participants and the significant elements of the situation.
There were, she allows, elements of the situation that were "almost intolerable".
Like a physicist, Bismarck analyzed the principal elements of each situation and then used them in an overall design.
The elements of the situation, of which I was already, though vaguely, aware, were pointed up for me in a piquant manner by an evening I spent in Israeli Jerusalem with a distinguished Jewish scholar from Prague, Mr. David Flusser.
At this point I may attempt to justify its demand by appeal to other elements of the situation with which the alarm is bound up: I must get up because I must go to work.
It also discusses that an advanced CR will capitalize on these technologies to learn about and take action based on user preferences, availability of resources, and other elements of the situation and environment.
Douglas draws on her earlier study of inductive risk (Douglas 2000) to press the point that countless methodological decisions required in the course of carrying out a single piece of research are underdetermined by the factual elements of the situation and must be guided by an assessment of the consequences of being wrong.
Instead, we will most likely want to hold out for some sort of inference or argument that moves from some sort of moral generalization (e.g., "lying is wrong") to an all-things-considered judgment about this particular instance of lying (which might gain justificatory support from other elements of the situation) (Lance and Little 2006, Little 2001).
In a broader sense, systems' analysis is a general methodology (not a fixed set of techniques) that applies a 'systemic', comprehensive perspective by taking into account all relevant aspects and elements of a situation or a research question, particularly the interactions between different elements.
Determining what role -- if any -- drone attacks should have in our emerging strategy to stabilize Pakistan requires a careful, fine-grained examination of the various elements of the situation, and a rejection of preconceptions in favor of evidence.
