Sentence examples for relation to a system from inspiring English sources

Dozens of politicians and executives have been caught up in the scandal, including Marcelo Odebrecht, a former head of South America's largest construction firm, who this month was jailed for 19 years for bribery and money-laundering in relation to a system of kickbacks that his company allegedly paid to senior Petrobras executives.

For example, if it is measured in relation to a system moving with uniform acceleration A, then the measured acceleration will be a′ = (a − A).

This would be very expensive, though maybe not disproportionately to a system that not in relation to a system that would require it, and also require more maintenance.

Furthermore, the full significance of specific cultural beliefs can only be understood in relation to a wider system that gives them meaning and resonance: "the elements of a cultural system make sense only in relation to one another" [ 52].

At their joint press conference yesterday Cameron and Clegg announced the outline of some worthy and, in some cases, potentially historic policies, not least in relation to a national system governing care for the elderly.

Just as some objects are edible, but only in relation to a digestive system, so Mead thought of experience, life, consciousness, personality, and value as objective properties of nature which emerge only under (and hence are relative to) specific sets of conditions.

The effects are the percentage change for each EITC step in relation to a tax system without an EITC.

Thereby, the emission reduction potential of specific abatement measures can be quantified in relation to a reference system.

Metacognitive thinking included considering alternative possible solution strategies and reflecting on the reasonableness of an answer value in relation to a physical system.

Contrary to what is claimed in many classical semantical theories, Gärdenfors maintains that 'a sentence does not get its meaning from some correspondence with the world but that the meaning can be determined only in relation to a belief system'.

This retrospective study demonstrates that anaesthesiologist administrated therapy increases the level of treatment modalities leading to an increased survival in relation to a prehospital system consisting of emergency medical technicians and paramedics alone without an unacceptably high number of patients suffering severe sequelae.