Sentence examples for Distinctive capacities from inspiring English sources

Princeton's distinctive capacities for teaching and research are both increasingly valuable and also — as governments cut funding for education, scholarship, and the arts — increasingly rare.

Heartfelt in effect and fascinating in detail, "One Red Rose" showed Mr. Mackey's expert grasp of the string quartet idiom: not only the timbres, textures and expressive effects of its component instruments, but also the genre's distinctive capacities for parity, transparency and discernible impact of disparate, simultaneous threads.

We will continue to do so, through the energy and ideas of our faculty, students, and staff, in ways that are true to the purposes of our endowment and that best take advantage of the University's distinctive capacities as an academic institution.

Viewing the natural body as self-differentiating rather than self-identical, Irigaray also articulates distinctive capacities for generation corresponding to differing morphological possibilities (the possibilities of bodily form) that entail "different subjective configurations" (Irigaray 2001 [1994], 137).

At its outset, labour migration can be appreciated as a tentative enactment of distinctive "capacities to aspire"; put differently, an intransitive effort at obtaining something more, whatever the ways of defining it and the definitional clarity.

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have two distinctive capacities; the first is to proliferate infinitely (self-renewal) and the other is to generate restricted daughter progenies (differentiation) that form all three germ layers: ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm.

The lithiation and delithiation behavior suggests that the further oxidation of Mn2+ to Mn4+ and the surface pseudocapacitance contribute to the distinctive capacity enhancement.

The results show that both gas-liquid and spring-oscillator phase shifters have the distinctive capacity of phase shifting with a significant reduction in the inertial component length.

Native Realm explores these imaginary homelands, plus the crueller realities of state and nation and nationalism, of origins and patriotism, but without losing the writer's distinctive capacity for wonder.

In sum, both readings agree that Plato is concerned to explain the distinctive capacity of humans to classify sense-perception under universals.

The first two specifications, however, can do justice to the thought that respect for persons is respect for their distinctive capacity to respond to the reasons that apply to them.