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Example sentences for "artificial means"

  • Their oranges are naturally good and require no artificial means of improvement, but the European fruits, as apples, pears, plums, peaches and apricots are of indifferent quality.

  • To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means.

  • Defn: Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.

  • Defn: A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others.

  • A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others.

  • Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.

  • In consequence, the radicles tend to increase in length with very great rapidity, and must be checked by artificial means, which constitute the chief art of the maltster.

  • If this does not occur, the circulation of air must be produced by artificial means.

  • Such deviations are often easily to be accounted for, whether by natural or artificial means; and do not affect the subject, as a whole.

  • Lowei having overspread, whether by natural or artificial means, a wider area than its congeners.

  • Professor Loeb, our most eminent experimental biologist, has succeeded in fertilizing the eggs of some low forms of sea life by artificial means; and in one instance, at least, it is reported that the fatherless form grew to maturity.

  • Professor Loeb has fertilized the eggs of sea-urchins by artificial means.

  • Albumen is to be produced "by artificial means;" and even then we should doubt entire success.

  • If, therefore, these globules be identical with the cells which are now held to be reproductive, it might be said that the production of albumen by artificial means is the only step in the process wanting.

  • See, on the question of the possibility of influencing the weather by artificial means, London Quarterly Journal of Science, xxix.

  • Here there take place most unexpected decompositions and combinations, which are often unattainable by artificial means.

  • These basins are sometimes separated from the sea by natural sand-banks (limans) or by artificial means, and in spring the water already begins to evaporate considerably.

  • It is precisely on this principle, of maintaining a double current by artificial means, that the bees ventilate their crowded habitations.

  • The most solicitous attention must be paid to the state of the bowels; and if they are not regular, they must be kept open every day by artificial means, or it will produce heat and restlessness, and pains in the head.

  • In the first place, it has been proved that in factories proper lighting as obtained by artificial means is generally more satisfactory than the natural lighting.

  • It was a logical step to try to reproduce this condition by artificial means.

  • The brightness of the arc under pressure is the greatest produced by artificial means and is very intense.

  • He shows that the practice of flattening the head had existed from an early date throughout the East, and described an ancient skull, greatly distorted by artificial means, which had lately been found in Lower Austria.

  • An examination of the American monuments shows (see figure on page 269) that the people represented were in the habit of flattening the skull by artificial means.

  • The rocks looked as if they had been planed by artificial means.

  • Let once a wrong be achieved by artificial means, and instantly those who profit by it represent it as the inevitable decree of evolutional forces.

  • We desire to restore the parity of gold and silver by perfectly "natural causes" set in operation by "artificial means.

  • Natural causes" indeed, when we can turn to the statute books of half the world and put our fingers on the "artificial means" whereby the hoarders of gold have legislated demand into one metal and legislated it out of the other.


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