Others incorporated mechanical complications, like chronograph, alarm setting or striking mechanisms, world-time indicators, or repeaters.
The principal mechanisms the world has devised to deal with them -- foreign aid, nongovernmental institutions, the World Bank, the United Nations -- have not succeededin dealing with the most troublesome and difficult cases.
While a number of practical considerations – including time, money and political will – certainly hamper the Convention's implementation and the establishment of new monitoring mechanisms, the world community cannot shirk its responsibility to protect children.
Brains are low-power, nimble computing mechanisms — real-world proof that it is possible.
It is by far the most successful environmental offsetting mechanism the world has ever seen, and a valuable contributor to sustainable development.
The fundamental mechanism underlying world markets is the focus of Robert Frank's new book, "The Darwin Economy," an adaptation of which appears in Sunday Business.
Capitalism, the most effective mechanism the world has so far known for providing goods and services and creating wealth, is under threat not from without, but from itself and from its lack of underlying principles.
IMF officials said they were relieved that a reduction in a country's exchange rate fed through to trade levels because it meant currency rises and falls continued to act as a rebalancing mechanism in world trade and stimulus to sustainable global growth.
The Antikythera Mechanism, the world's first computer, came out of this age of science.
A mechanism of world inter-communication will be devised, embracing the whole planet, freed from national hindrances and restrictions, and functioning with marvellous swiftness and perfect regularity.
It is through this mechanism that worlds are conjured up, through everyday details, which function "as the opposite of narrative".
