Sentence examples for of a switchboard from inspiring English sources
"Neurons" carrying those signals cross in a complex pattern of nested connections, reminiscent of a switchboard.
Having grown up making prank calls, Martin found that being seated in front of a switchboard "was thrilling".
"Lehman Brothers was a sort of a switchboard for the industry," says Peter Kruse of Vestas, the world's biggest wind-turbine manufacturer, "and they didn't pick up the phone any more".
If they neither have powers or witchcraft, nor pretend to have them, but simply bring messages from the spirit world, then they are not witches or wizards at all, and they are no more in danger from their law than so many members of a switchboard members union.
Onetime Bell Labs engineer Fadi Chehadé is president and chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, the 16-year-old California-based nonprofit that acts as something of a switchboard operator charged with maintaining a stable global Internet.
Then average path length = ∑ p ∈ P ℓ p /| P|, PERCENTPATH = | Q|/| P|, and PERCENTPATH = ∑ p ∈ Q ℓ p /∑ p ∈ P ℓ p. Table 5 shows that even in DNA damage and diauxic shift subnetworks the majority of shortest paths between TFs and TTs goes through LSCC; we may say that LSCC has a role of a switchboard (each node is TF in Table 6).
One room had metres and metres of wire leading to a switchboard – apparently no foreign embassy could expect to keep its calls private.
Young Ruby was raised by a shifting cast of relatives, and supported herself from the age of fourteen as a switchboard operator, a pattern cutter, and a chorus girl.
The most enduring of those, as a switchboard operator for the United Jewish Appeal, was, she said, "good voice training for an actress".
In Washington, the office of Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority whip, served as a switchboard of sorts for volunteers looking to sign up.
If you think of the brain as a switchboard, the doctor said, Gabriel had a lot of things knocked out.
