Sentence examples for now fundamental from inspiring English sources

Most attempts were merely embarrassing, but some led to important mathematical discoveries, including proofs of Dehn's Lemma, the Sphere Theorem, and the Loop Theorem, which are now fundamental concepts in topology.

Working at a time when female scientists set off reflex skepticism, Tharp drafted the first comprehensive map of the ocean floor, which led to the acceptance of the once-mocked, now fundamental theory of continental drift.

Lawyers, civil liberty campaigners and Christian groups who object to aspects of equality legislation (are such laws now fundamental to Britain or not?) have all warned of the difficulties that this sweeping definition raises.

"There are now fundamental accepted values, and a line is crossed when someone who's expressed sympathy for the Third Reich is allowed in," said John Palmer of the European Policy Center, a Brussels-based research institute.

Now fundamental changes in trade policies, in biofuel policies, increased investment in agriculture, more agricultural science and technology, sound social protection and nutrition action, and improved governance of the food system at national and global levels are needed to allow people and countries to cope with and grow out of the food-price crisis.

Although originally derived as merely an approximation to the binomial distribution (obtained by repeated, independent trials that have only one of two possible outcomes), the Poisson distribution is now fundamental in the analysis of problems concerning radioactivity, traffic, and the random occurrence of events in time or space.

Cassano, once the outcast of Italy, now seems fundamental.

But the diet of ancient Western civilization lacked many flavors that we now consider fundamental.

Mallinder has been in charge almost a decade but senior players are now questioning fundamental areas.

Modern slavery is now a fundamental part of the globalised economy.

With so much at stake if the banks mess up, regulators and politicians are now asking fundamental questions.