His opponents, one of whom, John Maynard Smith, actually trained as an engineer, are much more interested in Darwinism as a timeless mechanism or set of mechanisms.
The Taubmans have gone on the offensive, accusing the Simons of being hypocritical about their own corporate governance structure, which has its own set of mechanisms to block a hostile acquisition.
"Our travel security procedures are designed as a set of mechanisms or 'layers of protection' that are proportionate to the risks our employees may be exposed to when travelling overseas," says Thomas Bendall, security adviser at the British Red Cross.
Concluded in 1991 during the final days of the cold war, it set ceilings on nuclear forces and laid out an elaborate set of mechanisms for verifying mutual compliance, setting new standards for nuclear transparency.
The director of the Centre for Science and Policy in Cambridge recently suggested that the UK government had an "outstanding" set of mechanisms for science advice, and I agree with him.
But, he told me, "the process is protected best by a culture that admits fallibility — identifies it as quickly as it can be identified and corrects it through a nonpunitive set of mechanisms".
It has a set of mechanisms to check instances' integrity and healthiness.
In order to deploy a quarantine node, a set of mechanisms should be studied and employed.
The activities of protein kinases are strictly controlled through a diverse set of mechanisms.
A set of mechanisms is then proposed to qualify the identified dependencies.
This chapter describes a set of mechanisms that make agile architecting feasible.
