Sentence examples for gesture supported from inspiring English sources

He compensated for the latter with an unswerving loyalty to West Ham (his son, in an Oedipal gesture, supported Arsenal).

Perhaps the gesture supported students' thinking so that they could consider both variation and center of the distribution at the same time.

Rather, small moves are used to telegraph messages, with every gesture supporting the projection of Mr. Timberlake as the earnest but cool lover.

WASHINGTON--In a rare campaign gesture supporting basic research, the White House is setting aside $30 million in new money for studies of breast cancer genetics in 1997.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has responded with a mix of conciliatory gestures — supporting an as-yet underfinanced initiative to build space for 53,000 prisoners — and defiance, as when he called for the dissolution of the receivership.

Bryhni would not confirm the exact companies but said he expects several gesture-supporting mobile devices to hit the market in the second half of next year.

Bryhni would not confirm the exact companies but said he expects several gesture-supporting mobile devices to hit the market in the second half of next year.

The greater variety of hand gestures "supports the idea that language evolved from manual gestures rather than animal calls," says Michael Corballis, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

For example, cameras could let passengers control in-flight entertainment using hand gestures, support future biometric border pre-clearance, or allow seat-to-seat and even seat-to-ground video conversations, where in-flight connectivity could support it.

While the AFL-CIO executive council has not endorsed a candidate yet, some local unions have made public gestures supporting Sanders, prompting the federation's president, Richard Trumka, to urge them to stay neutral for now.

Such idiosyncratic gesture use has been noted in all studies of great ape gesturing, supporting the theory that ape gestures are acquired by means of OR (Call and Tomasello 2007b).