Sentence examples for tributary system from inspiring English sources

What was the tributary system and how will it shape China's future behaviour?

The present spatial pattern of the Vistula's tributary system and delta is the result of the changes in relief that occurred beginning about 30 million years ago.

The court will decide if the federal government has jurisdiction over wetlands that are part of a drainage area or tributary system but do not actually abut navigable waters.

In China, the emperor's relationship with the "barbarians" who peopled the lands around the Middle Kingdom was based on a tributary system in which they kowtowed to his authority and received gifts in return.

Non-European civilizations also had developed norms and institutions for regulating the behaviour of independent powers in their own regions (e.g., the siyar in Islamic civilization and the Sino-centric tributary system in East Asia).

This, of course, was the pattern over the many centuries of the tributary system, a situation now being resumed as China once more assumes its position as the major economic power in the region.

"River" channels coated with dark hydrocarbon deposits are common, sometimes running along faults and sometimes with extensive tributary systems.

The fact that the tributary systems of these rivers interlock allowed adventurers in the seventeenth century to go by river from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean with only five portages.

Partly confined valley settings are restricted to relatively short reaches of two tributary systems.

Fluvial, estuarine and marine sediments in low relief landscapes of the lowland plain have supported the development of meandering sand bed rivers, with many cut-and-fill (intact valley fill) deposits in tributary systems.

The tributary systems are relatively young, having formed after retreat of the Wisconsinan ice sheet, and are rapidly evolving in response to a base level fall of nearly 70 m–13,400 YBP.