Pournelle is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Pournelle in a sentence
Pournelle meaning
A surname.
Using Pournelle
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- In the example corpus, pournelle often appears in combinations such as: jerry pournelle, pournelle and, pournelle in.
Context around Pournelle
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 16 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pournelle
- In this selection, "pournelle" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jerry, 1994, used, wrote, writing and liberty stand out and add context to how "pournelle" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also used pournelle s law and by jerry pournelle and s. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pournelle" sits close to words such as abhinandan, abhor and abscesses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pournelle
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Iron Law of Bureaucracy Pournelle has suggested several "laws". (9 words)
Pournelle goes into some detail; the study was classified. (9 words)
Like Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven wrote, "evolution in action". (10 words)
The Ringworld series is part of the Tales of Known Space, and Niven has shared the setting with other writers at least since a 1988 anthology, The Man-Kzin Wars (Baen Books, jointly edited with Jerry Pournelle and Dean Ing ). (40 words)
Jerry Pournelle in 1986 explained why he wanted a kill file for BIX : citation whereas an open computer conference begins with a small number of well-informed and highly interested participants, it soon attracts others. (35 words)
Pournelle stated that This will be a column by and for computer users, and with rare exceptions I won't discuss anything I haven't installed and implemented here in Chaos Manor. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
In 1994, Pournelle's friendly relationship with Newt Gingrich led to Gingrich securing a government job for Pournelle's son, Richard.
In 2010, his daughter Jennifer R. Pournelle (writing as J.R. Pournelle), an archaeology professor, e-published a novel Outies, an authorized sequel to the Mote in God's Eye series.
Pournelle: liberty-control, irrationalism-rationalism main This very distinct two-axis model was created by Jerry Pournelle in 1963 for his doctoral dissertation in political science.
Like Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven wrote, "evolution in action".
He has also used "Pournelle's law" to apply to the importance of checking cable connections when diagnosing computer problems.
Humorist Dave Barry has fun with Pournelle's guru column in Byte magazine in Dave Barry in Cyberspace.
Iron Law of Bureaucracy Pournelle has suggested several "laws".
Jerry Pournelle in 1986 explained why he wanted a kill file for BIX : citation whereas an open computer conference begins with a small number of well-informed and highly interested participants, it soon attracts others.
Jerry Pournelle wrote in 1980 that "the basic TRS-80 is a lot of computer for the money.
Pournelle goes into some detail; the study was classified.
Pournelle opposed both Gulf Wars, maintaining that the money would be better spent developing energy technologies for the United States.
Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973.
Pournelle stated that This will be a column by and for computer users, and with rare exceptions I won't discuss anything I haven't installed and implemented here in Chaos Manor.
Pournelle's work in the aerospace industry includes time he worked at Boeing in the late-1950s.
Pournelle was later named Executive Assistant to the Mayor in charge of research in September 1969, but resigned from the position after two weeks.
Pournelle was one of the few close friends of H. Beam Piper and was granted by Piper the rights to produce stories set in Piper's Terro-Human Future History.
Pournelle worked for some years on a sequel to Space Viking but seems to have abandoned this in the early 1990s, however John F. Carr intends its completion for release in 2018.
Pournelle wrote numerous publications with Possony, including The Strategy of Technology (1970).
The magsail appears as a crucial plot device in The Children's Hour, a Man-Kzin Wars novel by Jerry Pournelle and S.M. Stirling (1991).
The Ringworld series is part of the Tales of Known Space, and Niven has shared the setting with other writers at least since a 1988 anthology, The Man-Kzin Wars (Baen Books, jointly edited with Jerry Pournelle and Dean Ing ).
Common combinations with pournelle
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- jerry pournelle 7×
- pournelle and 3×
- pournelle in 2×
- pournelle wrote 2×
- pournelle was 2×