Sentence examples for were consonant from inspiring English sources

But if the pour patterns and puddle configurations were a result of a flashover, Hurst reasoned, then they were consonant with Willingham's explanation of events.

The Americans, it turned out, were significantly more likely to give the responses that Kripke took to be obvious; the Chinese students had intuitions that were consonant with the older theory of reference.

And I could see that the emotions elicited by the show were consonant with a great designer who is not only making beautiful clothes, but also responding, like an artist, to the horror and insanity in contemporary culture.

One supposes that whether or not she and her husband discussed the particular case at home, the general views of her spouse were consonant with her own and his example was not without its inspirational qualities.

Haeckel and his contemporary, the British zoologist T.H. Huxley, did much to popularize philosophical accounts of the world that were consonant with the scientific thought of their time, but neither could be regarded as an extreme materialist.

"He showed the broad American public that the truths of our faith were consonant with the highest values of the society: patriotism, God, family and the struggle against Communism," said that boy, now known as Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York.

A subtle, but clear pattern emerged: Languages in hotter, more forested regions such as the tropics tended to be "sonorous," employing lower frequency sounds and using fewer distinct consonants, whereas languages in colder, drier, more mountainous places were consonant-heavy, the team reported today at the 170th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in Jacksonville, Florida.

To increase similarity between stimuli, all of the letters used in the task were consonants.

The stimuli were consonants (Braille characters) presented at the rate of one per second on a Braille board.

The sign must be consonant with that which it signifies.

It seems right that Mother's Day should be consonant with the fullness of spring.