Sentence examples for system of the world from inspiring English sources

But the ranking system of the World Marathon Majors series may be changing runners' incentives.

On the face of it, the Newtonian system of the world is committed to an absolutist idea of space.

Newton intended his great system of the world as a tribute to a dazzlingly deft geometer-god.

"The System of the World" (William Morrow) by Neal Stephenson, 944 pages long and the third and final volume in his series, "The Baroque Cycle," also landed yesterday.

It is indifferent, for example, to the way in which biodiversity is part of the self-balancing system of the world we inhabit.

The standard geographic coordinate system of the world involves latitudes north or south of the Equator and longitudes east or west of the Prime Reference Meridian of Greenwich.

We play to test ourselves and the rule systems of the world.

No two judges may be nationals of the same state, and the judges are to represent a cross section of the major legal systems of the world.

Many of the classic postorogenic clastic wedge systems found in the major mountain systems of the world contain abundant lithic arenites.

This might sound a simple objective but the current accounting systems of the world make it almost impossible to find this out.

The ICJ's statute, for example, declared that the organization of the court must reflect the main forms of civilization and the principal legal systems of the world.