Sentence examples for abiding point from inspiring English sources

The abiding point of the play is that moral justification for killing relies to some extent on one's own willingness to die.

Ms. Churchill is as formally audacious a dramatist as the British theater knows, and this 1980 caprice, at once fiercely clever and deeply pessimistic, makes its very structure part of the play's abiding point.

Her body was among her abiding fascinations: at one point, she weighed more than two hundred pounds.

Still, the reboot must confront abiding anxieties: at one point, in the course of weaning a twentysomething gym rat off energy shakes and flip-flops, one of the gurus counsels, "Just because you make an effort with your wardrobe doesn't make you a wuss".

The Koran also contains complimentary verses about law-abiding Jews, at one point saying that the "believers and the Jews" who do right will be rewarded by God.

However, critics of the technology contend that it unduly infringes upon the civil liberties of law-abiding citizens; they also point out that biometric systems such as facecams and thumbprint matching would not have identified most of the hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks much less foiled their plot because only 2 of the 19 hijackers were on the CIA's "watch list".

He was rustic - "the Ettrick Shepherd" is his abiding sobriquet - to a point which amazed his more refined contemporaries, yet walked with Wordsworth (who once snubbed him dreadfully); he had Jacobin leanings, yet was rumoured to be in line for a knighthood; he was lampooned without mercy or restraint in the very magazine - Blackwood's - he helped to found.

The changes point out an abiding feature of this country's racial history: when it comes to determining what exactly is a racial category, politics, not biology, is the deciding factor.

In that moment he had only his "breaking point" and the abiding, all consuming resolve that trends of injustice in his lived experience must end immediately.

That two intelligent commentators should reach such radically disparate conclusions points to an abiding problem at the heart of "Klinghoffer": its pensive, ambivalent attitude toward present-day issues about which a great many people feel no ambivalence whatsoever.

Up to a point, American politics reflects abiding philosophical divisions.