Sentence examples for practice of counting from inspiring English sources

The system, which Page called PageRank, permitted Brin and Page to improve on the standard practice of counting how often a key word appears on a Web site.

In his plan, Mr. Takenaka postponed action on two issues: the nationalization of banks and the practice of counting tax credits as capital.

Dorothy Parker in "The Little Hours" scorned the practice of counting sheep to induce sleep: "I really can't be expected to drop everything and start counting sheep at my age.

The Census Bureau has steadfastly resisted calls to end the practice of counting inmates as "residents" of their prisons instead of the cities and towns where they lived and to which they typically return.

The practice of counting inmates as local "residents" — even though they lack the right to vote — has been used to inflate the power of mainly rural areas where prisons tend to placed.

On the other, the continued use of am II and eventually the practice of "counting down" to the year 6000 indicates that the same "debates" between apocalyptic prophets of the millennium and concerned clergy continued unabated.

Mathematics, the science of structure, order, and relation that has evolved from elemental practices of counting, measuring, and describing the shapes of objects.

That search, however, is complicated by developers' practice of imaginatively counting floors.

He is more specific than some, however, in saying that he would end the practice of not counting as income the value of employee fringe benefits.

The practice of observing counting operations, he said, is not uncommon with close races.

The proposal allows zero-rating, the practice of not counting certain applications against users' monthly bandwidth caps.