Sentence examples for acquiring a character from inspiring English sources

However, interestingly many of these students who thought that the acquired characters are not inherited did say that if organisms in each of the successive generations keep acquiring a character, the acquired character is inherited: the tail-cutting in each generation would "work in the end, given time" (p. 306).

"It acquires a character after a while," she said.

If enough experience points are acquired, a character's level will increase.

In A Peaceable Kingdom, Stanley Hauerwas describes salvation as a process whereby, "We acquire a character befitting one who has heard God's call... an intense personal experience may be important for many, but such experiences cannot in themselves be substitutes for learning to find the significance of our lives only in God's ongoing journey with creation".

The issue of how urgently to move is acquiring a partisan character.

But since it must use these means, it is at every moment in danger of itself acquiring a coercive character" – is taken to an extreme that is aesthetic (the first section is "For Marcel Proust") as well as cerebral.

According to Allen and Taylor (1990), the subjectivity of this approach prevents it from acquiring a scientific character.

Results show that the ILs with withdrawing electron substituents have more polarized cations (a more localized positive charge) acquiring a slight ionic character in comparison to the ILs with donating substituents.

Preadaptation refers to the phenomenon of a character acquiring a new function based on its previous or existing functionality.

This is why a new research starts usually although not always from proto-ideas which often are of a religious or philosophical character, which had existed centuries before they acquired a scientific character.

Thanks to Ms. Brooks's quiet, austere style (and to Ian Baker's beautiful cinematography), this two-person drama acquires a third character: the outback itself.