Sentence examples for means of bonding from inspiring English sources

Dr Pearce said the non-singing groups became friends by talking during lessons and breaks, but the study provided evidence that singing was a "powerful means of  bonding a whole group simultaneously", adding: "Really close relationships still depend on interactions between individuals or much smaller groups, but this study shows singing can kick start the bonding process".

This may be because reading is one of the most solitary pleasures; it's not an obvious means of bonding with peers (even though, duh, reading connects us with other people and cultures).

These include repressed hatred for a dominating father, or, alternatively, as a means of bonding with his father by developing a patient doctor relationship (Colp 2008).

"There is something terribly wrong with our society when abuse becomes a means of bonding," said Dr. Nadine Hoover, the study's principal investigator.

It provided a means of resistance, organization and unity to leaders of rival political parties, the African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress, who found in a game a means of bonding and harnessing their opposition to the apartheid system.

As Cameron and Quinn [12] state, changing organizational culture is a challenge, because it requires the identification and a long-term strategy for changing underlying attributes, including the management style, strategic plans, climate, reward system, means of bonding, leadership, and basic values of the organization.

This new embrace of characters like Holden and the Glass children meant "presenting qualities all the more human because they are his own," Mr. Slawenski contends, and it became a means too of bonding with his readers.

In this study, the adherence between reinforcing steel bar and the cold bonded fly ash lightweight aggregate concretes (LWAC) with and without steel fiber were evaluated by means of bond strength test.

The pressure dependence of the atomic structures was systematically investigated by means of bond angle distribution, the Honeycutt and Andersen index, Voronoi tessellation, total and partial coordination numbers, and local chemical ordering analyses.

As known from various proceeding studies, the first term arises from the transmission of a steel force into the concrete by means of bond stresses, and it is said to be the shear resistant component by beam action (Kani 1964; Park and Paulay 1975).

Capital was raised by means of bond sales through public offerings.