Sentence examples for means of lining from inspiring English sources

But then, surprise, surprise when our valiant oversight heroes, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined VITOL's books last month they found 'mirabile dictu' that VITOL was in fact more of a speculator holding oil contracts as a profit making investment rather than a means of lining up the actual delivery of fuel.

The tunnel is supported by means of lining and anchorage system which is assumed to exert uniform internal compressive normal pressure on its periphery.

Black-and-white cartoons were reproduced by means of line cuts.

On his sketchy apprehension of the past, Plato creates a lexicon: "biographer: from bio-graphy, the reading of a life by means of lines.

Poets work primarily in lines, and often dream of writing perfect ones; this is why every poet is an innovator of sentences, dissecting them, ranking them, scattering, by means of line and stanza breaks, little cliffhangers across their lengths.

Although details such as faces and hands continued to be described chiefly by means of line, in a subsequent development drapery and other shapes were modeled in terms of light and shade.

Monitoring flower-visiting insects by means of line-transect counts failed due to the local scarcity of bees.

Explicit solutions can be developed with hyperbolic functions in the complex plane, and these solutions were the only practical means of line analysis until the digital computer was developed.

Moreover, gas is stored by means of line pack from 1 00 to 6 00, when the gas load is relatively low, and the line pack later releases gas in response to increasing gas demand.

Sociograms are maps of the network, consisting of nodes (or actors/individuals) that are connected to each other by means of lines (ties), representing the connections between nodes.

The means of lines (or plants) in BC1 F1, BC1 F2:2, F2 and F2 3 populations generally fell between the means of cultivated and wild parents for all traits except the position of the first branch.