Sentence examples for in a primitive form from inspiring English sources

Youporn.com, which determines whether a user has visited its competitors' websites, even went so far as to engage in a primitive form of cryptography in order to hide the URLs of the sites it's asking about.

The concept, at least in a primitive form, stretches back more than a century, but only in recent years have therapies been developed that show its true promise — and, for now, its limitations.

Also in the 1930s, Dr. Leonard looked at the function of estrogen in rats and rabbits and found that he could inhibit ovulation by manipulating estrogen levels, in a primitive form of contraception.

Along with their contemporaries, the Moẓaffarids of southern Iran, the Jalāyirid school developed a system of perspective, though in a primitive form, that had been suggested by Mongol Il-Khan paintings of the late 13th-century school of Tabriz.

Perhaps the most dramatic form of censorship in Christendom was that displayed in the development by the Roman Catholic Church of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of proscribed books, the origins of which go back (in a primitive form) to the 5th century ce and which continued to have official sanction well into the 20th century.

The manifest behavior reflects the infant's incipient object concept and its capacity to utilize this concept in a primitive form of physical reasoning.

Just as Cagney's Cody Jarrett is done in by a primitive form of GPS in "White Heat," so does Red Kluger succumb to a sophisticated use of two-way radio — the caveman done in by advanced electronics.

In addition, a primitive form of adaptive immunity is present in the lamprey, a jawless vertebrate.

Porcelain was first made in China in a primitive form during the Tang dynasty (618 907) and in the form best known in the West during the Yuan dynasty (1279 1368).

The putting together of these programs which often involved narration, sound effects, and music was in effect a primitive form of editing, so that it is possible to regard the itinerant projectionists working between 1896 and 1904 as the earliest directors of motion pictures.

Likewise, Miller (1931) (overtly influenced by Jaensch, but without sign of racism) regarded eidetic imagery (not, I think, clearly distinguished from mental imagery in general in this era) as a "primitive" form of thought, normal in young children, but likely to associated with psychosis and psychotic hallucination if it appears more than very rarely in adult experience.