Sentence examples for of a specific sort from inspiring English sources

There's no denying that these women are stars, but they're stars of a specific sort: action heroes, variations of the old Asian warrior legends, exotic in both provenance and look.

Last year it kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school in Chibok in north-eastern Nigeria that used Western teaching principles.Boko Haram does profess a commitment to learning, but of a specific sort.

Verified Voting is also creating a web-based national error-reporting system, a central clearinghouse for people to report everything that goes wrong on election day; this will allow the group to spot when similar problems occur in different locations, say, or to keep track of a specific sort of glitch, giving activists a fuller picture of what happens on election day.

The control involved in practical authority is, however, of a specific sort: it is constitutive control.

So, for example, children might know that animals are arranged in a taxonomy of a specific sort, and this prior background knowledge helps them learn about animals.

Intuitively, the conditions on an appropriate model of ontological reduction require the identification of a specific sort of intrinsic similarity between non-representational objects, such as properties or events.

That last, distended word is crucial: Mr. Levy is now known for a specific sort of melisma: he'll draw out a word or a sound by hopping a few intervals down the scale.

Paradigms include the property of being a specific sort of elementary particle (e.g., the property of being a neutron), chemical elements (e.g., the property of being gold), and biological species (e.g., the property of being a jackal).

A model is proposed to estimate the economic feasibility of using a specific sort of taps and it is applied to taps of washing basins in a public facility.

When James says that the religious emotions are just like all other emotions in being "made up of a feeling plus a specific sort of object," the specific sort of object is just the situational object specified in propositional terms such as the examples in this article have illustrated.

Across the world, destruction of cultural attractions causes a specific sort of communal grief.