Sentence examples for overlapping system from inspiring English sources

No one doubts that America's complicated, decentralised and overlapping system of federal and state financial supervisors could be improved.

Through a complicated and overlapping system of government-sponsored insurance, counter-cyclical assistance, disaster aid and legacy payments tied to nothing, the five-year, $307 billion bill lavishes cash on wealthy farm households, the main restriction on collecting it being a means test that applies to couples making more than $1.5m a year.

By means of this principle, an overlapping system can be expanded to another bigger one where the subsystems are considered as disjoint.

The model represents a change "from one of strong boundaries between separate institutional spheres and organisations to a more flexible overlapping system, with each taking the role of the other" (Etzkowitz 2002, p.2).

The formalization is extended by adding the notion of measure of effectiveness, which is then used to prove that one of the classes (so called overlapping system) is at least as efficient as a single-source system.

The problems were made worse in Australia due to the overlapping system of industrial courts that had evolved since Federation.

That results in large expenditures on overlapping systems, like three separate new tactical fighter programs.

His remarks echoed those by Pentagon officials who have advocated building "a defense in depth," relying on overlapping systems with varying abilities to counter missile threats.

Such voters feel they are the victims of overlapping systems of selfishness, said Mr Byrne: above them, bankers and politicians looking after themselves; below them the work-shy or newly arrived immigrants tapping benefits.

Rapid advances in science and technology in the 19th and 20th centuries fostered the development of several overlapping systems of units of measurements as scientists improvised to meet the practical needs of their disciplines.

That is because the IT organisations of most large companies tend to be a tangled mess of overlapping systems which go wrong so often that, as a practical matter, it will be hard to move IT work anywhere without fixing the systems first.