Sentence examples for system was either from inspiring English sources

Telephone and cellphone service died, and throughout the crisis the state's special emergency communications system was either overloaded or knocked out.

Under the Food and Drug Administration rules governing medical devices, Acclarent was not required to demonstrate that its system was either safe or effective before the F.D.A. allowed it to go on the market last year.

Although fractionation of lysate does not affect its proteolytic activity toward substrates with free NH2-termini, it completely abolishes the activity toward the blocked substrates, indicating that an important component of the system was either removed or inactivated during fractionation.

The final concentration of NaOH in the system was either 15 wt% or 20 wt%, and the sugar analysis results are plotted in Figure  2.

This observation suggests that the wg-en regulatory system was either independently recruited for segment boundary determination in annelids and arthropods or is plesiomorphic with respect to a segmented common ancestor.

Peptides were eluted with a linear gradient from 5 to 40% buffer B over 130 min. The HPLC system was either coupled to a hybrid quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer (QSTAR XL, Applied Biosystems) or an LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometer (Thermo Electron), both equipped with a nanospray ionization source.

A school system is either selective or it is not.

The state machine in this case was relatively simple - the system is either acquiring data or is idle.

Well, what it might be is the additional information that the system is either stable or causal.

All the products of K-12 system are either going to go to the university or they are going to the work force.

The goal of the system is, either to maximize the number of customers that are serviced, or the total EV utilization.