The long-running Chinese, Chaldean, and Mayan calendars were attempts to reconcile these repetitive but incommensurate movements. |
Cultural matrices and their operating rules are often incommensurate across localities. |
In many cities and towns, residents complain regularly about high bills that are incommensurate with their consumption. |
Thus in the absence of women nineteenth-century science defined feminine nature as essentially incommensurate with masculine nature. |
It is only in their underlying network of causes that they are dissimilar and incommensurate. |
The support extended to the victim may be perceived to be incommensurate with the support offered to the offenders. |