Sentence examples for acting on matter from inspiring English sources

In virtue of its own forces acting on matter, nature emerges as a uniform system that evolves to ever increasing order, diversity, and complexity.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest use of 'agent' in English can be found in a treatise on alchemy, written in 1471, where it was used to denote "a force capable of acting on matter".

* The Paris climate agreement was a rare instance of politicians (from 195 countries) acting on matters that won't pay off until long after they've left office.

Many others, like New York and California, bar officials from voting or acting on any matter that would help their clients.

They are created when methane — which is produced by microbes, or heat and pressure, acting on organic matter — migrates upward in the sediments and mixes with water under specific conditions of temperature and pressure.

Collisions between galaxy clusters provide a test of the nongravitational forces acting on dark matter.

Until now, the laws forbidding federal officials from acting on a matter in which that person or the person's spouse had an economic interest did not apply to same-sex spouses because of DOMA.

"I think there is nothing wrong and probably something right about Congress acting on these matters relatively quickly," Mr. Klain said.

In this view, autonomy is not simply a matter of acting on one's preferences, even one's informed preferences.

Commentators interpreted this as a strong EU pledge to acting on global health matters, a commitment that had never been 'so boldly displayed before' (7).

Recall that individual bodies are real in that they result from the causal effect of assemblages of local dispositions of parts of matter acting on our sensory organs which in turn act on the mind.