Sentence examples for is only a conventional from inspiring English sources

"The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change," Sir Arthur pointed out.

Tehran denies having worked on atomic weapons, saying Parchin is only a conventional weapons site.

However, BMI is only a conventional indicator of the body fat mass and does not reflect the paracrine effect of the local adipose tissue in the microenvironment.

"The energy consumption of LED units," the company writes in a statement, "is only a fraction of that of conventional bulbs".

A study due to be released soon showed that virtual home visits by community nurses in Wales were only a fifth as expensive as conventional ones, and that most patients were more satisfied because they were visited more often.

As we can see from these equations, both the Okapi BM25 and Ltu scores are only a certain variation of the conventional tf-idf weighting.

Using PCR, these workers detected bacteria in 72% of the prosthetic hip joints removed during revision arthroplasty, whereas there was only a 22% detection rate by conventional culture.

Extensive reviews by Kubba et al. [ 25], Rosenfeld et al. [ 46], Rovers et al. [ 48] and the recent Cochrane Database by Lous et al. [ 30] concluded that there was only a small benefit of the conventional ventilation tube.

An initial electric field has to be present for the chain reaction to occur but, conveniently, this field needs to be only a tenth of that required by conventional theories, and is thus precisely in line with observations.

In both wars, our enemy was only sometimes a conventional army; as often, if not more so, it was an elusive guerrilla force that was frequently indistinguishable from the civilian population.

Like all Mahāyāna Buddhists, Vasubandhu believes that whatever can be stated in language is only conventional, and therefore, from an ultimate perspective, it is mistaken.