Sentence examples for ran a system from inspiring English sources

The worse episodes of state violence in the 20th century also remain shrouded in official silence, chief among them are the crimes committed by Brazil's military dictatorship, which ran a system of torture and selective assassinations from 1964 to 1985.

Michigan Coach John Beilein ran a system that relied heavily on improvisation, pick-and-roll plays and isolation — three of the most common forms of offense in the N.B.A.

To test our hypotheses, we ran a system of regression models on a cross-national sample comprised of 5238 firms from 29 European countries and found a different pattern for new ventures and incumbents.

The commission heard from numerous construction executives and contractors who reported that a cabal of companies would collude to take turns in winning contracts, thus inflating the cost and bilking the government for millions, and that they ran a system of intimidation, bribery, and blackmail to keep the system in place.

"When I first came here in the early 1980's," Canada said, "we felt that District 3" -- which stretches from the Upper West Side into central Harlem -- "ran a system almost of apartheid, where below 96th Street, the schools were doing great, and the schools we cared about were doing lousy".

During this time, Sarah ran a system-wide review of the library's mission statement, which led to the adoption of a rejuvenated and unified mission for NYPL's 91 research and community libraries and established an innovation fund to support R&D in library services.

When I turned the key, the car ran a systems check that lasted anywhere from ten seconds to 45 seconds.

He said he was running a system of "test, learn and implement".

At least in Iraq, the US is trying to run a system that meets Geneva standards.

"You need to run a system like this to understand just how hard the burden is.

"Bringing in a company with no reasonable experience to run a system of this magnitude is just short of foolhardy".