Sentence examples for were conduits of from inspiring English sources

Moreover, many of the policies that were conduits of favours to firms with powerful friends, such as energy subsidies and heavy, discretionary regulation of competition and foreign direct investment, remain in place.

It introduces the idea of value streams and flows and illustrates with empirical evidence from West Lothian, Scotland how and why supply networks are conduits of value and knowledge.

"But we spend huge amounts of money protecting species and biodiversity, so why should it be that the one thing that makes us singularly human shouldn't be similarly nourished and protected?" What's more, languages are conduits of human heritage.

But even having access to them hasn't help very much because they too are conduits of cronyism and nepotism -- not very different than those they accuse of racism and privilege.

They were conduits for distribution of state subsidies to local enterprises, and for collection of taxes and other contributions to national revenue from those enterprises.

They are conduits to and arbiters of an exhilarating, if sometimes hostile world, filled with promise and peril.

Courts are conduits for the caging of (mostly black or brown) humans.

Blood vessels are conduits for the delivery of long-distance paracrine factors (e.g. hormones, growth factors).

"These councils are meant to be the conduits of information and ideas," said Donna D. Beecher, the Agriculture Department's director of human resources management.

"They are sought after because they are considered conduits of power," says Laurence Brahm, a former lawyer who has written books on China's economy and political scene.

It could conflict with Europe's e-commerce directive which states that ISPs are "mere conduits" of content and should not be held responsible for the traffic on their networks.