10 sentences with 'mechanism'

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• « The hunting mechanism of these plant species consists of the functioning of master traps such as the funerary urns of the Nepentaceae, the wolf's foot of the Dionaea, the basket of the Genlisea, the red hooks of the Darlingtonia (or Cobra Lily), the flypaper of the Drosera, constricting filaments, or adhesive papillae of aquatic fungi of the Zoophagous type. »

mechanism: The hunting mechanism of these plant species consists of the functioning of master traps such as the funerary urns of the Nepentaceae, the wolf's foot of the Dionaea, the basket of the Genlisea, the red hooks of the Darlingtonia (or Cobra Lily), the flypaper of the Drosera, constricting filaments, or adhesive papillae of aquatic fungi of the Zoophagous type.

• « Henry wanted something strong and flexible in the gear mechanism. »

• « The mechanism of how evolution occurred was unknown during Darwin's lifetime, at least to many people. »

• « Of course, when this brain mechanism fails, it leads to irritability, depression, poor concentration, accidents and illness. »

• « As early as 1870, three-quarters of British scientists believed the theory of evolution to be accurate, even before the mechanism by which evolution occurred, genetics, was understood. »

• « Henry Ford covered the mechanism with a wooden cabinet and attached a sheet of the same material to the front to improve its appearance, but the machine still looked very much like a baby carriage. »

• « Thus, this defensive mechanism of the brain - which, as we have seen, can become offensive in the form of stress - involves a complex biochemistry, in a sequence that activates first and foremost the amygdala of the limbic brain system. »

• « The mechanism he devised to improve the kinetoscope had two advantages: not only did it prevent jumps in the film image, but it allowed each frame to pause briefly in front of the light source, producing much sharper images. Today this device is still used in cameras and some projectors. »

• « Freudian theory saw neurosis as a psychic mechanism similar to that of errors or "failed acts", and to that of the dream: the fruit of a repression of infantile impulses - libidinal or sexual - for which reason it would be fundamental in therapy to be able to access the repressed neurotic contents. »

• « For example, what mechanism can explain what happened, one midday in 1966, to the athletic and apparently healthy engineering student Charles Whitman, who from the tower of the University of Austin, Texas, armed with three pistols and as many precision rifles, opened fire on all those who strolled through the university campus? »

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