Sentence examples for point turned on from inspiring English sources

Such was the absence of ideology in this campaign that coverage at one point turned on the question of whose previous banking connection, Riordan's 1st Business or Woo's Cathay, had resulted in fewer minority loans.

The South Fulton Fire Department ingloriously made the same point, turning on the hoses when the fire spread to the field of a neighbor who was, yes, in good standing.

This point turns on the so-called 'transparency' of our perceptual experience (Harman 1990).

This last point turns on its head Descartes' own conclusion in "Meditation II" that the nature of the human mind is "better known" than the nature of body; for Malebranche, it is the nature of body that is better known than the nature of mind.

Although these tools are available to turn off gene function at a chosen time point, turning on previously blocked endogenous gene function later in development, has not been feasible [however, see Clark et al. (Clark et al., 2011)].

Every Thanksgiving, we make it a point not to turn on the lights in the evening.

The second difficulty turns on points about explanation.

Brooks had no immediate comment, but there has been intense speculation that she might, at some point, turn on her former employer.