"nontrivial" in the sense that it wasn't easy to accomplish.    From Wordnik.com.  [ProHipHop: Hip Hop Business] Reference

There were a couple of nontrivial exceptions, however.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs] Reference

And in any given day they go up by a nontrivial number.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2003] Reference

Unfortunately, installing it is proving to be nontrivial.    From Wordnik.com.  [March 29th, 2003] Reference

To show that rationalizability is a nontrivial notion, consider the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Knowledge] Reference

No other nontrivial number in the cosmos had that kind of sweet symmetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

Chinese output is down enough to have a nontrivial effect on Chinese imports.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yin and Yang of Yuan Appreciation] Reference

True, each of the items might require a nontrivial amount of work to overcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alternative-Science Respectability Checklist] Reference

Inflation interacts in a nontrivial manner with oil price at this point, as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Kelly: David Vitter Has a New Fetish] Reference

The costs of doing the wage survey, in staff time and actual costs, is nontrivial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wage Surveys!] Reference

I think there are about 20 entries out of 61 that have a nontrivial chance of winning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prediction Contest Update] Reference

ψ, global existence and uniqueness for the Bohmian dynamics is a nontrivial matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bohmian Mechanics] Reference

For example, the cost of identifying and blocking copyrighted works has a nontrivial cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits Debate: Should Internet Providers Block Copyrighted Works? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

This feature is closely related to the nontrivial vacuum structure of the electroweak theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Nonperturbative Analogy] Reference

Then the nontrivial core claim about relative identity is that the following may well be true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relative Identity] Reference

In fact, the claim is a nontrivial play on words facilitated by the fact that the noun erôs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato on Friendship and Eros] Reference

The resulting proof has 28 steps (some of which are nontrivial) taking about 2 minutes to find.    From Wordnik.com.  [Automated Reasoning] Reference

This is a large and nontrivial question; here I can only try to mention a few of the surface essentials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

But the explanatory priority of reasons over motivation can also yield a nontrivial version of internalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reasons for Action: Internal vs. External] Reference

In fact, “one tiny portion” is an inappropriate term — “nontrivial region” would be a better choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Headline of the Day] Reference

I think there is a nontrivial tendency of political failures abroad to shift towards anti-Americanism, though.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make no mistake, Mr Obama is a once-in-a-generation possibility."] Reference

The depressed housing market is also ravaging the construction sector, a nontrivial portion of the U.S. economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weissman: Deregulation and the Financial Crisis] Reference

When I have those traits or mannerisms in common with someone, I feel connected in some small, yet nontrivial way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dating, part 6: the games begin] Reference

It can be seen as a constructive explanation of some restricted, but nontrivial, uses of impredicative definitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Type Theory] Reference

I do believe that a nontrivial number of voters who might vote for a white Democratic candidate will vote against Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [and a side of Rice.....] Reference

The Fed ' s increased presence in the market for long-term Treasury securities poses nontrivial risks that bear watching.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Malaise and How to End It] Reference

Over the longer term, of course, Australia's customers face a nontrivial risk of pinched investment and stagnating supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Re-Sourcing China's Resources] Reference

For example, to see a butterfly in the garden, we have to project a nontrivial amount of imagistic structure onto a scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Lakoff - Unconscious Imaginitive Perception] Reference

Surely that must have a nontrivial influence on shaping the psyche of the great majority of us who grow up in faith traditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [LOST: Pulling Back The Curtain] Reference

This feature is closely related to the nontrivial vacuum structure of the electroweak theory, as I explained here some time ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matter v Antimatter II: Electroweak Baryogenesis] Reference

In addition, we're THE GARDEN OF RAMA far enough away from New Eden that we must account for nontrivial losses on the lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garden of Rama]

This prosecution suggests that there is a current variation of Buddhism that has a nontrivial following and that is quite nasty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Prosecution for Insulting Religion — This Time, Buddhism] Reference

"If it is what they claim it is, it strikes me that this is nontrivial news," said search industry pundit and author John Battelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roll Your Own Google] Reference

It would be a nontrivial engineering task to design a transmitter-receiver-antenna system that covered that lecture hall and no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [So I walked out of the classroom not realizing that I was still wearing the wireless microphone.] Reference

Polls are only indicative, even outside the margin of error, and there's a nontrivial probability that any single poll is grossly off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: New Hampshire Dem Race Getting Close ��� Hillary Up Only Seven Points] Reference

And yes, there's still that thorny vow of obedience, which would remain a decidedly nontrivial issue even if everything else worked out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

Logicist AI is the first branch of logic to undertake the task of formalizing large examples involving nontrivial common sense reasoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic and Artificial Intelligence] Reference

As long as we can derive the spectrum of superpartners or at least find some nontrivial relations between them, that is a real prediction.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

One could almost have obtained them uniquely by writing down the simplest nontrivial equations for a four-dimensional mathematical quantity.    From Wordnik.com.  [RELATIVITY] Reference