protasis in a sentence

Examples

1. It is the third and central part when a play is analyzed into five separate parts : prelude, protasis, epitasis, catastasis and catastrophe.
2. The protasis will often use a different verb form, depending on the grammatical rules of the language in question, such as a past tense form or the subjunctive mood.
3. The apodosis ( the " then " clause ) also may or may not be true; the apodosis is asserted by the speaker to be true if the protasis is true.
4. "The technology to make ( instruments ) smaller has been at the university laboratory level for 10 years, " said James V . Bruno, Protasis vice president of sales and marketing.
5. In the Romance languages, the conditional form is used primarily in the Romanian ( even though the last is a Romance language ), the conditional mood is used in both the apodosis and the protasis.
6. The result of Protasis'efforts could be devices as small as a toaster oven that could be mounted on a factory production line or, in a few years, a mass spectrometer the size of a quarter.
7. Smaller tubes, smaller sensors, smaller pumps-- all of which the 2-year-old Protasis hopes will bring miniaturized versions of laboratory equipment out of remote testing centers to fields, streams and factory floors.
8. West's complaint is clear enough : In these sentences, the " if " clause _ or protasis, if you want technical terms _ doesn't logically relate to the conclusion, or apodosis.
9. The omens take the form of & ndash; one sentence, highly formalized units & ndash; with a protasis in which the portentous event is described, and an apodosis in which the meaning or consequence is given.
10. With $ 2 million from Strand's investment company, Soliton Ventures, Protasis started up in 1999 and soon acquired two small companies : MicroSensors in Space and Terrestrial Biology in Cardiff, Wales, and Magnetic Resonance Microsensors Corp . in Champaign, Ill.