Sentence examples for instance driven from inspiring English sources

They have, for instance, driven an empirical coach and horses through astronomers' ideas about how planets form, by finding all sorts of objects that should not, according to the old theories, exist at all such as planets the size of Jupiter or bigger orbiting close to their parent stars.

Therefore, the stronger the focus on the irrelevant unit digit (for instance driven by neglecting the left-sided tens digit), the stronger the compatibility effect.

(iii) At last, it has to be experimentally excluded, especially for low abundant instances, that the found ncRNAs originate from spurious transcriptional events, for instance driven by alternative sigma factors [ 43].

This is an important issue, since the proportion of seniors in the work force is increasing, while, at the same time workers need to remain in the labor market up to a higher age, for instance driven by adjusted retirement rules [ 26].

Maintaining quotas for Malays in some universities, for instance, drives the brightest ethnic Chinese abroad.

One of his stars, for instance, drives a nail through his tongue.

Bagnell, for instance, drove 90 minutes and searched the ground for a half-hour before he spotted the coy shorelark in beach scrub.

Audi's quattro system, for instance, drives both the front and rear axles all the time, and in normal driving the torque is split equally between front and rear.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Americans defined themselves in opposition to the Soviet Union and its allies, and the occasional embarrassments of the comparison (America's treatment of blacks at home, for instance) drove politicians to enact the civil-rights legislation which expanded the federal government in the 1960s.

A Best Film nod from BAFTA doesn't ensure and Oscar nomination for Best Picture -- in 2012, for instance, "Drive" scored a nomination from BAFTA, but not the Academy -- but it certainly doesn't hurt.

In western Jordan, for instance, drive up a road to the top of Mt. Nebo, where you can look down on a valley of the River Jordan -- and get the thrill of seeing what Moses saw when he got his first look at The Promised Land.