Sentence examples for principle was used from inspiring English sources

(A finer version of Cavalieri's principle was used by Zu Gengzhi in the 5th century to establish the correctness of the algorithm computing the volume of a sphere).

The principle was used even more ambitiously in the city's Kanchanjunga apartments (1970-83) – a square, 85-metre-high tower in which interlocking levels allowed effective through ventilation while courtyards and interior gardens created a spacious environment.

This suggests that representatives and mayors should serve three three-year terms and senators, governors and presidents should serve two five-year terms.This principle was used as far as it could in Mexican congress.

The medieval rule of economy, that "plurality should not be assumed without necessity," has come to be known as "Ockham's razor"; the principle was used by Ockham to eliminate many entities that had been devised, especially by the scholastic philosophers, to explain reality.

The same principle was used to identify the biomass potentials.

In [16], sparsity together with uncertainty principle was used for average power reduction.

In this work, the correspondence principle was used considering the sub-region BEM approach.

That time could, in principle, be used for something else.

The same general principle is used that planes employ in the air.

The same principle is used to make aircraft take off or to hold racing cars on the road.

It also means they might, in principle, be used to create artificial organs.