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Examples of free-floating

free-floating
It sits somewhere in the middle, between church and people, as a sort of free-floating structure of ideas.
More so than the writer, the artist, or even the free-floating intellectual, the scientist's discipline constrained him to retreat from any standpoint.
They are, or are akin to, free-floating evils.
Immunohistochemistry experiments were carried out on free-floating sections.
Not all free-floating voices in the film, however, are endowed with this subversive power.
It is tempting, then, to settle on music as free-floating, drifting in some unspecified, inter-diegetic territory: there is something signified, but nothing precise or recoverable.
It seems reasonable to conclude, then, that what makes customary norms eligible for incorporation into a legal system is that they are free-floating.
The tendency for opinions about democracy-in-practice to be sensitive to the ups-and-downs of the transition does not make relatively free-floating beliefs in democracy-in-principle less real.
All immunohistological procedures were preformed on free-floating sections and care was taken to ensure that sections were not folded during the reaction.
Reasons of political morality or political psychology, however, may weigh against incorporating norms that are not free-floating.
It can be observed from above that multiple co-operating manipulators are independently studied, particularly for fixed base and free-floating space manipulator systems.
There is a common atrioventricular junction guarded by a free-floating common atrioventricular valve.
The ' free-floating ' occurrence of felt in the input to the child doubtless serves the purpose of underscoring its acceptability in the adult grammar.
Hence, it has been suggested that the free-floating manipulators should be used for cooperating tasks in space manipulation instead of free-flying manipulators.
Target in space may move in various modes, such as free-floating, tumbling, and so on.
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