Sentence examples for roundabout process from inspiring English sources

In a roundabout process he couldn't have imagined, Malthus has turned out to be essentially right.

While Marx attributed productivity to labour, Böhm-Bawerk attributed productivity to an indirect, or "roundabout," process based on an investment in land and labour.

An increase in federal debt can be financed in three ways: borrowing from foreigners, borrowing from our own citizens or, through a roundabout process, printing money.

Why do you, in order to find out your beliefs, go through the fantastically roundabout process of directing a thought-reading machine to your own brain and then finding out what you believe on the basis of the machine readings?

Sugar cane led to a great wave of Chinese immigration to Cuba, which, through a roundabout process of musical pollination, put an idea into the heads of Mr. Leiber and his collaborator, Mike Stoller, when they were still teenagers breaking into the business in Los Angeles.

You can already drop and share pins in Google and iOS Maps, Naim acknowledged, but it requires a "roundabout" process, and he argued that, unlike Addy, those maps aren't really designed for those kinds of directions.

A low rate of interest leads to concentration on longer, more roundabout processes, and a high rate of interest on shorter, less roundabout processes.

Böhm-Bawerk assumed that "roundabout" processes of production would generally be more productive than processes with shorter periods of production; he thought there was a productivity of "waiting" (to use the term of Alfred Marshall) and saw the rate of interest as an inducement to the capitalist to extend the period of production.

Mr Erhardt appears to have been one of many interns caught on the so-called "magic roundabout" – a process whereby a taxi takes interns home, waits outside while they shower and change, then drives them back to the office to begin another long day.

If agents fail to update a listing, they can be punished, though the process is roundabout.

The process of designing roundabouts is an iterative process through which, in several checks, the design elements of a roundabout get optimized.