Sentence examples for pervasive structure from inspiring English sources

But a much bigger issue is the PRI's pervasive structure of social control, assembled during seven decades in power.

The cosmogonic myth thus has a pervasive structure; its expression in the form of philosophical and theological thought is only one dimension of its function as a model for cultural life.

Though the precise nature and characteristics of the supreme creator deity may differ from culture to culture, a specific and pervasive structure of this type of deity can be discerned.

His business is "superimposing economies of meaning that run counter-intuitively to the pervasive structures of the art world", an idea best illustrated by his 1971 proposal to blow up Antwerp's Royal Museum of Fine Art once it had finished hosting his show.

A "pervasive surveillance structure" for society with a public hall of shame, singling out worst offending households to ridicule, would work, says Prof Anderson.

"Every other airline gains when United is on strike because it has such a pervasive route structure," Shearson's Joedicke said.

Over the quarter-century since the rise of the serial, American television has undergone enormous changes with the introduction of more than one hundred new channels, pervasive new structures of media ownership and synergy, and transformations in the technologies of media production and distribution.

Understanding the Zhuangzi is made more difficult by the huge differences not only in the philosophical context, but in the pervasive metaphors that structure and focus discussions of norms of behavior in the Chinese vs Indo-European classical traditions.

But what we do know is the devastating effects such cleansing has on the lives and psyches of residents in places such as Brixton and although attending festivals is a different situation, it shows just how pervasive certain power structures are.

Pervasive ductile deformation structures in so-called welded ignimbrites deposited from pyroclastic density currents are interpreted to result from the continued shear stress imposed by flow of the overlying mass on viscously deformable lava-like flows [ Branney and Kokelaar, 1992; Manley, 1995].

According to Saha and Ukherjee [13], the structure of a pervasive computing system is made up of pervasive devices, the pervasive networks, the pervasive middleware and applications.