Sentence examples for formal tools from inspiring English sources

Formalisms were introduced for the description of biological systems and formal tools were provided for the verification of properties of biological systems.

He and Professor Sargent have been "trying to do empirical macroeconomics using formal tools of statistics," he said.

It may be a satire of progressive taxation (or of what the authors call "utilitarian social planners"), but it makes use of all the formal tools of analysis.

The boys of "Boyband" have all of the formal tools needed to succeed vocal training, complex choreography, access to famous pop stars, a network-television platform.

Second, they should ensure they are measuring their reputation, either using formal tools or at least surveying their staff and wider stakeholders, who can act as an informal but highly valuable early warning system.

The result was a poem that uses sophisticated formal tools to convey deep emotion -- in this case, the cold terror of a pretty place whose charms have been annihilated by private disaster: "It was madness to look down / On the toy city where / The glittering neutrality / Of clock and chocolate and lake and cloud / Made every morning somewhat / Less than you could bear".

"The choice to work as puppets was a formal tool that enabled the actors to escape realism from the start," explained Ms. Mnouchkine, who spoke backstage before a performance of "Tambours sur la Digue" in Lyons, France, last month.

By the early 1960's, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and others (Jim Dine, Nam June Paik, Lee Bontecou, the list goes on) took it and its sculptural offshoots another step as a formal tool for incorporating ordinary objects into the world of art.

The 2D framework itself is just a formal tool.

Necessity and possibility distributions offer a flexible formal tool to express imprecision and uncertainty.

So far we've used just one formal tool, probability theory.