We learn, for example, about the workings of the mechanical device that randomly selected, from 6,000 names, the jury of 500 Athenian citizens (yes, 500) that assembled at the law court to hear the case.
Yet he is an example of how the workings of the global financial system, amplified by the policies of a single political leader, can have a devastating effect on ordinary people.
Pinker claims that ISN provides another example of creolization and the workings of the innate language faculty: it is "created…in one leap when the younger children were exposed to the pidgin singing of the older children".
Language is an important part of the social world, and understanding the roles that language plays in communicating, manipulating, and controlling (to cite just a few examples) is surely vital to understanding the workings of power (See, for example, MacKinnon's views on speech in MacKinnon 1993).
To take a simple example: a person who understands the workings of thunder and lightning is not going to think that Zeus is sending her the message that he is angry.
Watching Ozu's films, for example, gave Mr. Richie insight into the workings of daily life.
In his address to the fourth, fifth and sixth graders in the school gymnasium, Mr. Lazio, in a departure from his previous talks to students, made several references to his environmental record, sometimes using it in his examples to explain his job and the workings of Congress.
However, there are still many gaps in the understanding about the workings of the RSBY, for example, not much is known about the protective effect of RSBY on OOP and impoverishment.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, for example, workings of the cosmos were thought of as the workings of a clock, and the building of clockwork automata was fashionable.
We chose this example, as it is small enough to easily follow the workings of the algorithm.
