Sentence examples for primary locus of reference from inspiring English sources

That would undermine the quantifier criterion, to be sure; it would reverse the Quinean order of things, requiring that names, not bound variables, be the primary locus of reference.

The primary locus of dinosaur hunting is the Nemegt Formation.

Rather, it appears that the weight issue has simply become the primary locus of criticism.

The primary locus of infection was a program that ran every time Windows booted.

In essence, the community became the primary locus of regulation and enforcement.

In contrast to the homogeneous nucleation of the conventional emulsion, the monomer droplets become the primary locus of particle nucleation, and droplet nucleation is predominant in miniemulsion.

Yet the primary locus of suffering is not in the US, where the public health apparatus nullifies the threat of Ebola's spread.

It's an exultant, theatrical spot — the big-lot antithesis to what Mr. Samuelsson, who was born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, calls the "mom and pop places" that have been the primary loci of African food in New York.

3. Nucleotide at corresponding locus of reference sequence.

After World War II, the country witnessed the establishment of a new partnership between Washington and the nation's institutions of higher learning, with the federal government investing in universities as the primary locus for the nation's scientific research.

The gyre of commerce is churning again, it seems, and Durham may be its primary locus.