While the narrative is strictly linear, Sowell's path from want to privilege is anything but straight.

In the European version, the order is strictly linear and a specific level can't be accessed if the previous ones aren't cleared.

This division, however, does not represent a strictly linear progression.

In the real world each tissue will have its own distribution characteristics and none of them will be strictly linear.

Once again these costs tend not to be strictly linear in reality.

The original form assumed a strictly linear structure, but this assumption can be weakened to allow for non-linear functions.

This may be because previous models were strictly linear and did not incorporate cognitive questions.

It is often the case that the analytical, planning, and writing stages do not occur in a strictly linear fashion.

None of these systems is strictly linear, as they each have discontinuities at leap seconds.