Sentence examples for gradation from inspiring English sources

It opposed any gradation of rapes into more and less serious offences, claiming that rape by an acquaintance was likely to be just as traumatic as rape by a stranger.

The Global Forum brought together an eclectic array of participants, ranging from Grandmothers Against Nuclear War to Greenpeace, with every gradation from sanity to nuttiness.

The vibrant squares of "Static-Dynamic Gradation" (1923) have a mesmerising intensity.

Some American states, such as Michigan, have created a complex gradation scheme which rates criminal sexual conduct in the first, second, third and fourth degree.

The next generation of e-mail filters, say HCI researchers, will be "gradation" filters that delay notification or delivery of certain e-mails to avoid bothering the recipient.Henry Holtzman, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says vehicles provide the most promising environment for context-aware interfaces.

Hofrat ("Doctor of Divinity, Imperial and Royal Court Counsellor").Nothing like that has ever really existed in English, which also offers no gradation of respect via conjugation or personal pronoun: with "thou" and "ye" gone since the 17th century, everyone is just "you".

Soils also show a north-south gradation.

But I think her true motivation had more to do with aesthetics – using available light to dramatise the subject with the infinite gradations of grey between pure black and white provided the subtlety that was her stock in trade.

"I want them to discuss the different gradations of abuse: when does something become abuse; what should you do.

There is little here about the infinite gradations that divided earls from dukes, elder sons from their brothers, established titles from ones of recent creation and Haileybury from Eton.

The social gradations of that temporary aberration, capitalism, he reckoned, could be handled by differences in things like the layout and finish of each flat.