Sentence examples for referring to existing from inspiring English sources

In Allison (2002) for examples, prospective graduate degree applicants are advised to justify their proposed research by referring to existing knowledge, belief, or practice, including relevant research that already exists on the topic (222).

Two very general forms of reductionism have been held by philosophers in the 20th century: (1) Logical positivists have maintained that expressions referring to existing things or to states of affairs are definable in terms of directly observable objects, or sense-data, and, hence, that any statement of fact is equivalent to some set of empirically verifiable statements.

The parameters in the simulation model are calibrated using the survey data as well as referring to existing studies.

Realistic numbers of the secondary gamma yield, referring to existing or approved set-ups and a discussion of the feasibility of the experiment are presented.

"Some [adware] companies are paying other companies to break the law and put their products on computers using spyware," says Ari Schwartz, the organization's associate director, referring to existing legislation on unfair and deceptive practices, as well as computer trespassing.

First, a flow sheet for the Ot-HyS process was developed by referring to existing facilities and to the work done by the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) under their reasonable assumptions.

The WHO says refugees and migrants needing diagnosis should be referred to existing non-governmental or state services.

The title of the exhibit is "L'image Volée," or "The Stolen Image," and the works explore the ways in which "__artists have always referred to existing imagery to make their own".

Greg Clark the shadow energy minister, promised so in a speech to their party conference in which he referred to existing meters as "dumb metal wheels spinning in the garage that Thomas Edison would recognise"; but he declined to set a date.

The legalese outlawing sex discrimination is not easy to find or to parse, but it refers to existing laws, like the Civil Rights Act and Title IX, to say that the same protections apply to people seeking health care and insurance.

Many of the new constitution's provisions referred to existing laws that are out of step with international human rights norms, Ms. Pillay said, and concentrate powers in the hands of the president that could undermine the independence of the judiciary.