Sentence examples for soft means from inspiring English sources

Sneering at identity politics is a depressingly common position, portraying those who dare to point out the intangible soft means of discrimination (such as language) as precious snowflakes, mollycoddled by a politically correct establishment which allows free expression and academic enquiry to be undermined.

They used soft means to portray a new reality (modernity) where the traditional societies had to redefine themselves.

If at all, they had to rely on "soft" means to convince patients or at least to inform them about appropriate birth control measures.

With the full CSI of hops and the signal and noise covariance matrices at the transmitters (the full CSIT), the source and relay precoders were designed asymptotically by either maximizing the individual MI of each hop or minimizing the individual soft mean-squared error (MSE) of estimated signals of each hop.

A lot. His highly sexual, complex relationship to women (Apollonia, Vanity, and so on) challenged the idea that being "soft" meant being gay.

One may choose a soft mean or median filter to decrease imaging noise and/or scan related noise (scan lines), which enhances the visibility of the object to be analyzed.

In other words, Nye suggests that a nation does not have to use traditional power -- i.e. force and threat -- to make another nation do what the first wants it to do, but instead can subtly shape the preferences of the other nation by using softer means.

Doesn't softer mean weak?

Subsong was much softer (mean amplitude = 31.6±3.5 dB) than begging calls (n = 5 males; 62.1±5.7 dB; n = 300 notes each) and showed greater variability in note structure (Fig. 2A).

A soft purr means that it is content, a loud purr means very happy.

Soft selection means that the population size is held constant, regardless of the mean fitness of the population.