Here also it is obvious, that although John only presents these opposites in their generic form, yet we are necessarily led to the idea of gradational differences in the actual life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: III. The First Epistle of John, Practically Explained.] Reference

The evaluation of the principal versions of the idea of evil inclines us to a gradational view.    From Wordnik.com.  [PROBLEM OF EVIL] Reference

The antithesis was directional and gradational; the good was always in the upward reach, the evil in the downward drag.    From Wordnik.com.  [PROBLEM OF EVIL] Reference

The northwestern boundary is gradational, as more gentle slopes and lower relief are found towards the center of the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)] Reference

I have had grand success this morning in tracing gradational steps by which the peacock tail has been developed: I quite feel as if I had seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

Depletion is slow for abundant also found mainly in deposits of relatively low geochemical concentration with gradational boundaries-especially slow if they can be recycled after use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Limits to Exploitation of Nonrenewable Resources (historical)] Reference

But as his Heraclitean views compelled Plato to recognize a gradational reality, downwards to sensibles, he modi - fied their theories so as to achieve a procession of being from first principles and the mediation of mathe - maticals between ideas and particulars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The part which, I think, will have most influence is when he gives whole series of cases, like that of whalebone, in which we cannot explain the gradational steps; but such cases have no weight on my mind -- if a few fish were extinct, who on earth would have ventured even to conjecture that lung had originated in swim-bladder?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

The gradational core helps with that too I'm sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hooked On Golf Blog] Reference

VIII. it is obvious that they form a gradational series from orthodox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference

It was easier to remain incredulous notwithstanding the gradational distinctness of the whispers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference

It's a three piece design, with a gradational core, a mantle, and a 330 dimple soft urethane cover.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But Erickson was up front with his critique and concern for the view of gradational authority in the Trinity.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Erickson pointed to Romans 8: 29, James 1: 17 and 1 Corinthians 15: 24-28 as verses that gradational authority advocates frequently cite.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Many of the scenes have bright edge flare on the highlight sections and if you tone those down the picture just becomes lost in any gradational range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Theater Forum] Reference

That colour in Man is much influenced by climate is evident, and its variation appears to a considerable extent gradational throughout different parts of the globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.] Reference

Impact craters are often the only way to estimate unit ages, infer subsurface structure, and investigate gradational histories on other planets and moons in our Solar System.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

I have had grand success this morning in tracing gradational steps by which the peacock tail has been developed: I quite feel as if I had seen a long line of its progenitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences]

Also, the gradational colours in palettes which is favoured by Japanese brands makes things easy for purposes of blending and colour matching when you are in a hurry or are new.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Women Stuff] Reference

To what extent are the gradational links really wanting in the living creation or in the fossil world, and how far may we expect to discover such as are missing by future research?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquity of Man] Reference

But the three zones mingle and overlap one another at the edges, like the colours of the solar spectrum; hence these complex buildings, these edifices of the gradational, transitional period.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. Notre Dame. Book III] Reference

The Glen Canyon Group was deposited in a large retroarc basin, with the crossbedded eolian Navajo Sandstone in a complex gradational contact with the underlying fluvially-dominated Kayenta Formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Another factor is believed to be the heat developed by earth movements and vulcanism, which presumably facilitates the elimination of volatile materials, and thus accelerates the gradational changes above described.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

The very phrase of 'national type,' which we used in the last paragraph, and the diffusion of a language essentially Greek, argue at once a slow and gradational transition of the population into its present physical condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference

When species A becomes modified in another region into a well-marked form C, but is connected with it by one (or more) gradational forms B inhabiting an intermediate region; does this form B generally exist in equal numbers with A and C, OR INHABIT AN EQUALLY LARGE AREA?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

Three different but gradational styles of mineralization have been observed along the new Adanac corridor, characterized by a quartz-hosted pyritic system in the west, a pyrrhotite-pyrite base-metal system in the centre, and an arsenopyrite-pyrite quartz-rich system in the east.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

"gradational authority," the idea that there are grades of authority within the Trinity.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The part which, I think, will have most influence is when he gives whole series of cases, like that of whalebone, in which we cannot explain the gradational steps; but such cases have no weight on my mind ” if a few fish were extinct, who on earth would have ventured even to conjecture that lung had originated in swim-bladder?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences]

But what we have said respecting the absence of gradational forms between the Recent and Pliocene mammalia may serve to show the weakness in the present state of science of any argument based on such negative evidence, especially in the case of Man, since we have not yet reached those pages of the great book of nature, in which alone we have any right to expect to find records of the missing links alluded to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquity of Man] Reference

1987 – 1991 – A gradational drought dependent on latitude – at the north end of this zone, no drought, at its south end, a fairly serious drought – no one year as dry as 1976 – 1977 but each year lower than normal – 60 – 80% of normal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unprecedented Warmth in Sweden « Climate Audit] Reference

"But in reality," he writes, "it cannot be said that we obtain any insight into the nature of the forces by which a higher grade of organisation or instinct is evolved out of a lower one by becoming acquainted with a series of gradational forms or states, each having a very close affinity with the other." ... ".    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

Use a two-tone or gradational arrangement.    From Wordnik.com.  [EzineArticles] Reference

Tender Blush that had gradational colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Women Stuff] Reference