Sentence examples for system of equal from inspiring English sources

By spreading out the mistuning of the "wolf" fifth among its neighbours, in the same way that their predecessors had spread out the mistuning of the fifth D A, musicians of the 17th century moved imperceptibly away from mean-tone temperament, in which the fifths are tuned unequally, toward the system of equal temperament, in which all fifths are equally flat.

Rawls argues that parties behind the veil of ignorance would choose two principles: a liberty principle providing for the "most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all;" and a principle of equality requiring equality of opportunity, and permitting inequalities only if they are to the benefit of the least well off (Rawls 1971, 302 303).

In 1581 the Florentine music theorist Vincenzo Galilei (father of the astronomer Galileo) proposed a system of equal intervals for tuning the lute.

This is … an irresponsible policy that undermines the determination to build a system of equal and shared security in Europe, equal for everyone regardless of whether a country is a member of this or that bloc".

Elizabeth Anderson, a philosopher at the University of Michigan, catalogues the ways that segregation "undermines democracy":The democratic ideal seeks a culture and political institutions that realize society as a system of equal citizens.

With the acquisition of legal capacity in the early part of the century, a French wife was free to manage and dispose of her own earnings and property, but it was not until 1985 that the long predominance of the husband in the management of the couple's common property was replaced by a system of equal comanagement.

The third limitation is probably the least important; as long as there are a large number of masses and the mass distribution is approximately uniform then the system should behave as a system of equally-spaced, equal-mass bodies.

It was a cradle of republicanism and of imperialism, political systems of equal interest to 19th-century Americans watching the United States develop into a world power.

Hydraulic power systems have greater flexibility than mechanical and electrical systems and can produce more power than such systems of equal size.

This was first confirmed by comparing the wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) patterns where the amorphous character was much more pronounced in the moulded systems of equal water/TDI content.

As time passes, mergers of two systems of equal size become less common.