Sentence examples for physical divisions from inspiring English sources

Three physical divisions may be distinguished.

In London it would gradually wipe out social housing from large parts of our capital city and create unacceptable physical divisions in our community.

Its physical divisions are not as distinct as those of Sumatra, because the continental shelf drops sharply to the Indian Ocean in the southern part of the island.

"Whilst the physical segregation of housing estates and inner-city areas came as no surprise," they said, "the team was particularly struck by the depth of polarization of our towns and cities, and the extent to which these physical divisions were compounded by so many other aspects of our daily lives.

Germany, officially Federal Republic of Germany, German Deutschland or Bundesrepublik Deutschland, country of north-central Europe, traversing the continent's main physical divisions, from the outer ranges of the Alps northward across the varied landscape of the Central German Uplands and then across the North German Plain.

So again the smaller the physical divisions of a given substance are, the more disposed that reduced quantity of the substance becomes to the primary qualities of the surrounding bodies.

The political and physical division of Berlin had a profound and pervasive influence on urban planning.

Atoms differ only in shape, size, and weight and are impenetrably hard, changeless, everlasting, the limit of physical division.

The division of Europe that was symbolised by the physical division of Germany's old capital city seemed a permanent part of the continent's geography.

At the same time, she told me, "there was never a physical division at that time between the two countries, other than the river".

Darwin's fellow evolutionist Herbert Spencer defined altruism in physical terms – generally as any action that benefited another organism at some cost to the self – but even including mere physical division and loss of matter in very simple organisms.