Sentence examples for system of sign from inspiring English sources

On the compound an ascetic lifestyle took hold, with sex even among married couples discouraged and communication limited largely to a system of sign language in which they were instructed, the relatives said.

His system of sign symbols, which became known as the International System of Typographic Picture Education (Isotype), grew out of his calling to revolutionize understanding among peoples and institutions.

Washington introduced a new system of sign route numbers in 1964.

A 1964 renumbering introduced a new system of sign routes that was scheduled to go into effect in 1970.

The team had its groundskeeper mess with the height of the grass and the pitcher's mound to better suit its players, moved the outfield fence in or back depending on each day's opponent, and, most deviously, instituted a system of sign-stealing.

Indeed, the most famous contest in baseball history, the playoff game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants for the 1951 National League pennant, might well have turned on the Giants' untoward system of sign-stealing that involved a telescope and an electric buzzer.

Design has functioned throughout history as a system of signs.

That early humans could have devised such a system of signs is not surprising in itself.

A language is a system of signs having meaning by convention.

Led by a more than usually complicated system of signs and portents, she took up training as a clinical hypnotherapist.

"My job was to create a system of signs that makes this airport a place, not a nonplace".