Sentence examples for we fixed on from inspiring English sources

That said, Dell actively investigated failures, we fixed on fail computers that suffered a capacitor issue and we extended the warranties on all the possibly affected motherboards".

The decision to focus on this one new strain of cassava was the outcome of a long process of research alongside farmers groups in Katine, where we fixed on what new crops would be the best suited to the area and would be most productive at feeding families and selling.

We fixed on an inducer concentration of 25 ng/ml for our studies since the growth of the circuits was minimally affected at this concentration, though the Delay circuit did start showing retarded growth from 7 hr after induction.

If the eyes that we fix on at birth don't reflect us back, the effect is deracinating.

And before we fix on Kingsley, there is Hilary, Martin's remarkable mum, who would marry some more herself.

So we fix on, say, that rare but essential Brutalist proto-funk waxed by Feral Potato Records of Caribou, Me., in 1963.

Going in the other direction, once we fix on a content, are there limits on what attitudes may be taken toward it?

This question does not appear to make very much sense, until we fix on some amount of pleasure and some amount of knowledge.

Once we fix on an experiential way of entertaining content, what if anything limits the range of contents that can be entertained in that way?

We fix on the particular functions of the unclear expression that make it worth troubling about, and then devise a substitute, clear and couched in terms to our liking, that fills those functions.

Why? Roughly, because if we fix on the underlying causal structure implicated in Smith's shooting Jones on his own, and if we go only to other worlds in which that causal structure operates unimpeded, we will rule out worlds in which the counterfactual intervener Black is at play.