Sentence examples for example and thus from inspiring English sources

To reverse engineer the Viking diet, for example (and thus learn where Vikings traveled, what they planted and how many people a region could support), researchers collect and examine pollen grains, seeds, fleas and lice.

An alternative hypothesis is that the courses of men's and women's lives mean the gap is caused by something else; women taking "career breaks" to have children, for example, and thus rising more slowly through the hierarchy.

At the dedication ceremony, Henry Wilson, the president of the New York Firemen's Association, called upon "our fellow citizens of the two great sections to emulate our example and thus hasten a restoration to its normal condition and grand proportions of our once beautiful and still united national fabric".

Combined with other information, such as the computer's IP address and hence its location, advertisers will be able to target their spots much more accurately all "Desperate Housewives" fans in a particular neighbourhood, for example—and thus ought to pay a premium.The thing that is missing in this new vision of television, however, is the set itself.

This case, because of its scale and the diversity of methods involved, is a particularly rich example and thus highlights several important issues.

The Son of God became incarnate, on this view, in order to set this example and thus provide a necessary condition for the moral reform that is, in turn, necessary for the full restoration of the relationship between creature and Creator.

Though primarily for reciting or singing as a melody is being learned, these syllables can be used to write down the notes of a melodic line (each appearing as a single ideogram in the Chinese examples) and thus form a simple syllabic pitch notation.

The thesis on group learning is the most radical of the examples, and thus its future is disagreed about.

Thus Colyvan (2009) points to a number of ways in which paradoxes might be thought to be of a kind per se, concluding that the liar and the sorites are examples and thus deserving of a similar solution.

In an introduction, the present paper gives a short survey of existing vehicle-dynamics control systems that is based on some examples and thus does not claim to be complete.

Sharing other examples and thus challenging the conceptual frameworks developed and nurtured in specific cultures and contexts enables a richer picture to appear.