Sentence examples for adduce examples from inspiring English sources

Commentators who envision Barack Obama running on his foreign-policy successes in this year's campaign generally adduce examples like the assassination of Osama bin Laden and the crippling of al-Qaeda.

In the treatise on moral virtue Plutarch discusses how virtue must subordinate unreason to reason within the soul, a theme developed in many other of the works dealing with popular ethical problems; those adduce examples from the lives of famous men and contain sound but unoriginal moralizing.

Thus far, we have adduced examples that conform to Glucksberg's strict definition of metaphor as a categorical assertion.

They aim to explain and provide evidence for a general theory, punctuated equilibrium, adducing examples for proof rather than taking them as a primary explanatory device.

Steinberg adduces several examples of Christ's genitalia being painted over or touched up to make them look like a mere blur.

"Many LGBT people are refused asylum as the Home Office simply refuses to accept their stated sexual or gender identity or the evidence they adduce: for example, their own testimony or supporting statements from family, friends and partners.

Whiteness in America was primarily Anglo-Saxon Thomas Jefferson Anglo-Saxon Thomasn independence by adducing the example of "our Saxon ancestors"—but not exclusively so, and the presence of immigrants from elsewhere in Europe eventually nudged American race theorists toward a more miscellaneous idea of whiteness.

Whiteness in America was primarily Anglo-Saxon — Thomas Jefferson argued for American independence by adducing the example of "our Saxon ancestors" — but not exclusively so, and the presence of immigrants from elsewhere in Europe eventually nudged American race theorists toward a more miscellaneous idea of whiteness.

Surveillance, which the research's proponents adduce as an example of how mutation data can help protect human health by flagging up potentially dangerous strains to nip them in the bud, may be fine in theory.

Despite demonstrations and examples adduced by Cott and others, little experimental evidence for the effectiveness of countershading was gathered in the century since Thayer's discovery.

The more examples Gladwell adduces of first impressions calculated to turn out right, and then of other ones that come out badly wrong - such as the time an innocent man was shot by panicking police officers - the more his big point gets buried under a heap of caveats and conditions and provisos.