6 sentences with 'elementary'
Example sentences and phrases with the word elementary and other words derived from it.
• « Many centuries have passed from the elementary morsels of primitive man to the sophisticated dishes of contemporary man, but the primary function remains the same: to eat in order to live. »
• « After elementary school, Arne Treholt did his compulsory military service in Norway, studied political science at the University of Oslo and entered politics as a member of the youth wing of the Norwegian Labor Party. »
• « The most elementary laws of supply and demand in the economy were ignored in favour of irrational, indeed arbitrary, production systems. The result was a chronic shortage of goods and services that people actually needed (or wanted) and an equally huge surplus of useless and shoddy junk, from ill-fitting shoes to unreliable machinery. »
• « One fine day they took the podium, received their diploma or university degree, declared themselves educated people, and never read another book, never examined a new idea, never exercised their minds in anything beyond the elementary to earn a living or to excel in society, or both. »
• « Evidence that our ancestors were not as elementary as we have hitherto assumed abounds and is - contradictorily - supported by "conservative science", as archaeologist Wilhelm Konig defined it as early as 1938. »
• « He is currently working on elementary textbooks in geology with Salvador Luria and on a popular book on biological determinism (racism and sexism) with Gar Allen. »