Sentence examples for the stratum of from inspiring English sources

"The Hebrew map of Israel constitutes one stratum in my consciousness, underlaid by the stratum of the previous Arab map".

She came from the stratum of honest tradesmen, from which Tory agents and local councillors might be recruited, but rarely MPs.

There is the character of memory that Benjamin described thus: "The stratum of the writer's present day, broken through and made transparent, becomes a window on to remembered experiences that … depend upon it for the realisation of their latent meaning".

Defining "Negroland" as the stratum of black America "where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty," this memoir by a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic recounts her upbringing in mid-century Chicago, the second daughter of a pediatrician and a social worker turned homemaker.

Thus, the upper ranks of the government form the political aristocracy of the state; the stratum of the highest religious dignitaries constitutes the aristocracy of the church; and the richest captains of industry and finance constitute an aristocracy of economic wealth.

The segment may be at the stratum of discourse, grammar or expression.

At the stratum of lexicogrammar, clitics are invariably positioned adjacent to the verb.

This is primarily explored from the perspective of transitivity at the stratum of lexicogrammar.

Artistic activities involve broad mental processes that are beneath the stratum of consciousness.

Halliday and Matthiessen (1999: §8.3) provide a description of the domain model of cooking recipes at the stratum of semantics.

cI use the term "contextual structure" simply to make it explicit that these structures belong to the stratum of context.