Sentence examples for sort of relation from inspiring English sources

Footballers can see that there is some sort of relation between the time they prepare and the time they work.

What is needed is merely an understanding of what is meant by such terms as "if then," "is," and "are," and an understanding that "object of" expresses some sort of relation.

Although this sort of relation has been offered as support for non-linear models of soil transport, we use 1-D analytical hillslope profiles derived from existing soil transport laws to show that a model with soil flux linear in slope, but including a slope stability threshold, is indistinguishable from a non-linear law within the scatter of our data.

Uruguay is squeezed between two giant neighbours, with Argentina to the south and Brazil to the north, and it has the same sort of relation to them as does Canada to the United States, or Ireland to Britain – a sense of being overshadowed by a larger, louder neighbour, while its inhabitants feel, deep inside, that they are the smarter, wittier ones.

The impression that there must be such a difference can be traced to the fact that the particular sort of relation in question notwithstanding that it is perfectly and exclusively spatial is one that no combination of three-dimensional rotations and translations can ever alter.

Given this, what sort of relation "ties" these two formally distinct components together?

"As the story unfolded, we learned that the young woman he had had some sort of relations with was of the age of legal consent".

Democratic Sri Lanka, which suffered more than most from the 2004 tsunami, has the sort of relations with international agencies you would associate with Sudan.

This argument is based on metaphysical and explanatory arguments to the effect that moral truths aren't the sort of relations or facts that reasoning can discover (see the Anti-Rationalism Supplement).

To be in a given mental state is to be in a state with the right sort of causal profile, a state bearing the right sorts of relation to other states.

According to Ingarden, the realism/idealism problem is fundamentally a metaphysical problem (about the actual existence of the so-called 'real' world and its relation to consciousness), but may be non-circularly approached via ontology by examining what the possible sorts of relation between consciousness and the world could be.