Sentence examples for residual elements of from inspiring English sources

"If he gets too close to claiming victory and there's a serious fight between American forces and residual elements of the Taliban, it will be embarrassing.

Northern Asia continued to be inhabited chiefly by thinly distributed residual elements of ancient eastern Asian peoples, although some fairly late northward movements of Turkic peoples did take place.

(Residual elements of such ceremonies remain in some modern arrangements; it has been seriously contended that the study of the Latin language in the Renaissance and post-Renaissance school can be interpreted as a form of puberty rite).

Such ideas are worth reviewing (1) because of the light they throw on important residual elements of popular belief; (2) because they illustrate the distance traveled (or not traveled) between early beliefs and current ones; and (3) because of the relevance of certain old ideas to contemporary debates about brain-stem death and about the philosophical legitimacy of organ transplantation.

Shifts in traditional heterosexual sexual scripts whereby women were expected to be passive recipients of men's sexual interest, have been observed since the early 1960s [ 62]; yet, residual elements of these traditional scripts may persist.

"They're the ones putting the pieces together, understanding that the landscape is changing, that the sculpture is a residual element of that change," he said.

"I would say there's still a residual element of the Syrian program that's out there," he said.

There are artworks from which the last residual element of function, even that of ornament, has been eliminated.

Thus, it is necessary to specify 'acceptable' levels of residual elements for the production of VRLA batteries.

In these batteries, the antimony in the positive and negative grids dominates gassing characteristics so that the influence of residual elements is of little importance.

The residual elements consist normally of weathering-resistant rocks (e.g. Uluru sandstone, Australia) or are capped with a layer of resistant rock protecting the underlying softer rock from erosion (e.g. Utah, Great Monument National Park).