Sentence examples for functioning whole from inspiring English sources
Everybody takes three deep, cleansing breaths — all right, the experts didn't say that, but they meant to — and considers both the imminent needs of everybody else and the system as a smoothly functioning whole.
Ms. Cohen didn't just fit together parts from two cars; she made them merge into a functioning whole, with a hydraulics system that extends the rear frame from Trabant to El Camino length.
Although her persona is that of a hopelessly shy and disorganised person, whose thoughts are piled together like the sticks in a rook's nest which somehow make a coherent and functioning whole despite sticking out madly in every direction, her essay about the diagnosis has the restraint and unexpectedness ofthe best 18th century prose.
Its object is essentially to achieve some expression of the unities in culture by indicating how trait and complex and pattern, however separable they may be, intermesh, as the gears of some machine, to constitute a smoothly running, effectively functioning whole (from Man and His Works, 1948).
It is the synthesis of these two opposite worlds into a functioning whole that is the key to meaningful, purposeful and productive organizations.
"Systems thinking is a general conceptual orientation concerned with the interrelationships between parts and their relationships to a functioning whole, often understood within the context of an even greater whole.
His first degree was in electrical engineering: in his subsequent work, he liked to use examples from engineering, and constructed theories with many well-designed parts carefully fitted together to form functioning wholes.
Similar patterns were observed for markers of liver function, whole-body insulin sensitivity, and hepatic insulin resistance.
But Lewis admits that she does think about the prospect of printing whole, functioning organs.
Indeed, people's individual creative capacities are multiplied in the context of their connection to a greater, well-functioning whole.
