Sentence examples for least bound from inspiring English sources

"For more than 30 years, Saddam's pattern has been to coldly miscalculate the odds, with disastrous results for Iraq and its neighbours".Khrushchev was at least bound by a political structure that limited his conduct.

Something is clearly up: it seems the snooper's charter, the bill that refuses to die, is back on the agenda of a government that expected to have its ambitions curtailed by coalition, and now finds itself unbound – or at least bound only by the slender size of its majority.

Those who are least bound by the "Savanna Theory of Happiness" and are not reliant on relationships or immediate environments for survival will likely be first to outsource their social networks.

Given an arbitrary cut (L, R), we propose that r will be the least upper bound of L. The Least Upper Bound Axiom of the usual theory of the reals tells us that L has a least upper bound (L is nonempty and any element of R (which is also nonempty) is an upper bound of L, so L has a least upper bound).

Call a poset (:= partially ordered set) P increasing inductive (increasing chain complete) when every increasing sequence has an upper bound (the least upper bound, i.e., supremum) in P. (Increasing inductiveness, Tasković [1]).

The result is an infinite set of first-order axioms, assuring that any definable set that is non-empty and bounded has a least upper bound.

The presence of a naturally occurring receptor translates to a diagnostic and selection tool that may discriminate which spermatozoa would at least bind to the oocyte vestments.

If one is to find an enzyme that catalyses a reaction, one might hope to be able to predict that it can at least bind that substrate using the methods of in silico docking.

If each subset of which is bounded above has a least upper bound in, then is order complete.

For this reason, certain axioms from classical mathematics are rejected by intuitionists, such as the completeness axiom for real numbers, which says that if a non-empty set of real numbers has an upper bound, then it has a least upper bound: we know of no general method that would allow us to construct mentally the least upper bound whose existence the axiom claims.

For example, when proving that every bounded nonempty set X of real numbers has a least upper bound a, one proceeds as follows.