Sentence examples for instructive in terms of from inspiring English sources

The analogy may be instructive in terms of timing.

However, to have a 50% complete articulated skeleton of a primitive primate is much more instructive in terms of estimating lifestyle and relationships".

But the demo is instructive in terms of showing what a three-screen experience might one day look like.

Comparing results between the great players who are suddenly back on the scene is probably more fun than instructive, in terms of how they will fare as coaches, but they do serve as a reminder that Becker was as much a man of steel as Lendl in his time.

dA parenthetical comparative historical note is instructive in terms of the relationship between the state's political economy and the community's subsistence economy: it is worth noting that it was the presence of the British in Aden that provided the catalyst to Somalia's commercialization of livestock export to South Arabia (Swift [1979]).

The case is instructive in terms of cabergoline impact upon associated valvulopathy.

The difference between Japan and the US is instructive here: in terms of overall GDP growth, it was about one percentage point, but larger in terms of the annual WAP growth rates – more than 1.5 percentage points, given that the US working-age population grew by 0.8%, whereas Japan's has been shrinking at about the same rate.

AT a time when life in America is beginning to resemble a roller-coaster ride on the way down and everyone is trying to find ways to save money, it may be instructive — both in terms of offering helpful hints and putting things in perspective — to look at how people ran their households during the Great Depression.

To interpret the spectral behavior it is instructive to think in terms of a simple comparison of a fixed volume of water confined by the tube with an equivalent volume of the Intralipid.

"If we get a good, bipartisan bill to the floor, that will be instructive to the House in terms of rewriting this legislation," Mr. Harkin said.

Harkin is also optimistic that the bill "can be instructive to the House" in terms of NCLB reauthorization.