Sentence examples for is proffered as from inspiring English sources

This position is proffered, as historically, 'followers' have been seen to create stagnation, producing what has been called "Vector of Psychological Inertia" (H. Altshuller 1984), or fixation (Youmans and Arciszewski 2014).

AFTER the novel's zany climax, an epiphany of sorts is proffered as the twins speculate about Sir Melchior: Dora wonders if he hadn't looked a bit "two-dimensional" that night; and Nora agrees -- "D'you know, I sometimes wonder if we haven't been making him up all along.

"There's a lot to be said," says Mr. Sherman, "for just posing questions that are irresoluble, or that are resoluble in many alternate, parallel and opposing ways". When he presents an ordinary light bulb, it is proffered as one of a thousand sources of energy that help him form a picture of himself.

Suppose θ is proffered as a theory of an individual speaker's competence, i.e., as an explicit statement of what they know, where this is internal in the sense that having such knowledge consists in facts about a speaker's brain rather than in overt performance.

Conversely, if phenotypic plasticity is proffered as an explanation, then evidence for a plastic response in the trait must be accompanied by evidence that the trait is not genetically determined and has not undergone natural selection.

The command of the surgeon has been described previously, 25 26 and even information gathered from other sources, is invariably proffered to the surgeon as final key validator.

No doubt Updike reveres Shakespeare, but "Gertrude and Claudius" is a proffered challenge.

Her rejection of her landlady's proffered friendship, and her encounter with her sexually wistful female boss, are handled as delicately as any scene Tóibín has done, although here and there his delicacy doesn't exclude a note of ribald amusement as well as worldly melancholy.

Heavily splotched tortoises also weren't as shy about approaching a potential predator in this case, a human to snatch a proffered apple, the team reports in an upcoming issue of Animal Behaviour.

As for a Blanche Sour, made with egg white, lime juice and simple syrup, with Angostura bitters atop the foam in the manner of a Pisco Sour, I've no firsthand empirical critique, as the test coupe was first proffered to my wife, who refused to then relinquish it.

There were all sorts of answers proffered as to why the Rangers could gain only one victory against the Montreal Canadiens, a team not nearly as laden with stars as the Flyers and Capitals.