Sentence examples for scripted exercise from inspiring English sources

But even the most sober speak about the transformation that an only week-old uprising has had on a people so long treated as subjects, not citizens, by a state that saw elections as a scripted exercise in affirmation.

It's kind of like the parade of nations at Olympic opening ceremonies, a scripted exercise with nothing surprising happening.

But as long as conventions are tightly scripted exercises in friction-free salesmanship, they no more merit a full media army than an auto show.

Suffice to say the tabled question was a carefully scripted and stage-managed exercise dispensed with in minutes.

Basey and Francis (2011) suggest that students might prefer scripted versions of laboratory exercises that they perceive to be more difficult.

The quadrennial events, with their idiosyncratic procedures and highly scripted programs, are at heart communal exercises for both the participants and the audience.

Or perhaps the film's style – the kind of exercise in cocktail-sipping, cameo-strewn, scripted Hollywood auto-satire practised in the likes of The Player – seems passe in the era of edgier celebrity provocateurs such as Sacha Baron Cohen.

Students then discussed the question using the external representations as focus instruments, and scripted follow-up questions were posed by the exercise initiator (e.g., "Do the subunits always assemble in the same way?").

But much international opinion will condemn the exercise in "disciplined democracy" as a Burmese farce, scripted by the oppressive ruling junta.International opinion is right.

Some of them — including one of the most popular, Second Step — are heavily scripted: teachers receive grade-appropriate "kits" with detailed lesson plans, exercises and accompanying videos.

Ms. Diallo's French lawyer, Thibault de Montbrial, branded the interview "a public relations exercise, without any spontaneity, neither in the questions nor the replies — scripted down to each gesture".