Sentence examples for ephemeral phenomena from inspiring English sources

Whereas some maps are scientifically accurate symbolic representations of the reality of the earth's surface, the mapping that I use in my practice is exploratory – pointing out transient and ephemeral phenomena.

"We wanted to artificially activate a memory without the usual required sensory experience, which provides experimental evidence that even ephemeral phenomena, such as personal memories, reside in the physical machinery of the brain," adds co-author Steve Ramirez, a graduate student in Tonegawa's lab.

The final goal of science is to find a pattern behind complicated ephemeral phenomena and to make nature predictable.

"It is wrong to believe that they are an ephemeral phenomenon," said Professor Dimitris Kerides, who teaches political science at Athens Panteion Universityy.

Statistics aside, the Queens case is a reminder that West Nile is not a foreign, ephemeral phenomenon that made an anomalous splash one year and then vanished.

Fox and the other big broadcast networks will spend tens of millions of dollars in the coming weeks to try to produce the elusive and ephemeral phenomenon known as buzz about the prime-time lineups for the 2007-8 season.

What is less certain in their eyes is whether this amounts to a strategic shift or a ephemeral phenomenon that ends with Obama's presidency," Ali Vaez, an Iran expert at the International Crisis Group, said.

Within weeks, she was awarded a MacArthur "genius grant". The citation credited her for filling a gap in historical study by "charting the transformation of the elusive and ephemeral phenomenon of sound". The unexpected award also boosted her confidence.

The accepted wisdom is that diversification is merely an ephemeral phenomenon or one associated with the struggle for survival in declining economies (Barrett et al. 2001; Ellis 1998; Lanjouw and Lanjouw 2001; Pattanayak et al. 2003).

The New York Herald Tribune was unimpressed, but referred to The Great Gatsby as "purely ephemeral phenomenon, but it contains some of the nicest little touches of contemporary observation you could imagine-so light, so delicate, so sharp …. a literary lemon meringue".

Since fungal disease outbreaks in plants and insects are often ephemeral phenomenon we performed counts over time.