set of building blocks

Essentially, this gave architects a whole new set of building blocks to work with.

All of a sudden a whole set of building blocks fell into place.

Like a giant set of building blocks, each is a habitable lesson in how to put things together.

Educating any child is providing a set of building blocks and the core subjects have to be the first steps.

A second set of building blocks was evolving in location economics, regional science, and geography.

There's only one set of building blocks in this universe: did you think otherwise?)

Give two children a set of building blocks and one might build the Eiffel Tower while the other makes a shack.

Kids at Work offers a set of building blocks and Legos to make your own tower, house, bridge, whatever!

Elements of the experiments can be de-composed into a common set of building blocks that have a specific set of behaviors with a stable structure.

To oversimplify: very young children of both sexes were given similar sets of building blocks with which they were asked to construct some sort of dwelling.

NIEM was designed as a core set of building blocks that are used as a consistent baseline for creating exchange documents and transactions across government.

All sets came with one set of building blocks you could build into a full sized vehicle, and one specially designed 3 3/4 G.I. Joe figure.

The Media Platform in itself is a set of building blocks or framework to quickly develop video distribution applications whether B2B or B2C.

One such feature is alternative splicing, the mechanism through which a single gene can generate several kinds of protein by selecting different combinations of the same set of building blocks.

OPM combines a minimal set of building blocks - stateful objects and processes that transform them - with a dual graphic-textual representation in a single diagram type.

QML elements shipped with Qt are a sophisticated set of building blocks, graphical (e.g., rectangle, image) and behavioral (e.g., state, transition, animation).

In appropriate conditions a second set of building blocks (m) are coupled to the first one and a further oligonucleotide which is coding for the second modification is enzymatically introduced before mixing again.

RUP is based on a set of building blocks, or content elements, describing what is to be produced, the necessary skills required and the step-by-step explanation describing how specific development goals are to be achieved.

Where Selenium 1.0 attempted to provide a rich interface for many different browser operations, Selenium 2.0 aims to provide a basic set of building blocks from which developers can create their own Domain Specific Language.

Because of this emphasis on parallelism and bandwidth, "Nehalem," broadly conceived, is less of a "processor" in the classical sense than it is a set of building blocks that can be assembled in different configurations for different market segments.

Once again the cubeships were reassembling themselves, not into larger cubes, but into other, more ominous shapes--some long and bristling with disruptor cannons, some resembling vessels with twin nacelles formed as if from a child's set of building blocks.