Sentence examples for structuring principles from inspiring English sources

Archetypes can be thought of simply as structuring principles.

Rain, being rained on, and finding shelter will become central subjects and structuring principles of British writing.

While Ms. Hoptman's choices suggest too much attention to her ideas and structuring principles, the show's excess of fashionable artists also reflects a dependence on New York and Europe's hottest galleries.

Their vocal techniques range from operatic purity to spluttering glossolalia and on to pop inflections, but they have in common a tendency to use their own voices not merely as lead instruments but as structuring principles.

We have no clear understanding of the personal, educational, or social histories of the intellectuals, particularly of the "groups, networks, and rivalries" that appear to function as structuring principles in the history of intellectual change viewed macroscopically (Collins 1998); or of patronage structures, institutional bases, or circuits of intellectual exchange across the subcontinent.

What is missing is an awareness of bridging or structuring principles, rules explaining how we get from strings of symbols, via syllables, to representations of Greek names.

But fraternity is lost when religion trumps politics as the structuring principle of a society.

That same grandmother latterly supplies a structuring principle: the show is, we're told, about her dementia.

Davidson is so taken with the phenomenon that she proclaims it "the fundamental structuring principle of the brain".

Attempts to understand this settlement process have assumed revolutionary social change, the disappearance of kinship as a structuring principle, and the appearance of a rational bureaucracy.

This is more or less the structure of all subsequent versions, printed or filmed; what differs is first the scene with which the process begins and, more important, the precise structuring principle of the movement itself.