Sentence examples for adduced about from inspiring English sources

This infrastructure provides the contextual backdrop (i.e. the constants) against which evidence will be adduced about actual operative policies, procedures, people and places.

The varieties of human beings—should we choose to cast that in the terminology of race or not appears to be the expression of some formative principle [Bildungstrieb], one whose meaning and purpose can never be exhausted by the technical complexity of the story we may adduce about the process of that formation.

But viewing it through the prism of the Wilson years raises real questions about the assumptions on which intelligence work is based, about the quality of evidence adduced and about the abandonment of normal principles of democracy supposedly for a "more important purpose".

The 20th-century record of Nazi "eugenics" programs, forced abortion as a population-control mechanism, and widespread nonconsensual sterilization in many countries, including the United States, is adduced as support for pessimism about technological, policy-driven, or self-indulgent interventions in procreation (Meilaender 1987).

Part of the reason this event captured so much attention, besides the fact that it happened in the media capital of the world, is that the story of the Central Park jogger could be adduced by any side in a continuing debate about race, class and justice in America.

Similar issues are raised in the debate about animal consciousness (see the Entry on animal consciousness), but there is also disagreement about whether the kinds of evidence adduced for and against the cognitive capacities of animals are equally relevant in assessing the cognitive capacities of human beings (Kittay 2005; McMahan 2002, 2005, 2008).

But although it is open-ended in that respect, it promises (given likely views about what sorts of facts can be adduced as explanations) to be quite surprising on that front.

No one has adduced any evidence that, for instance, the probabilistic generalizations about the behaviour of animals that ethology and behavioural biology provide, are irreducibly probabilistic, instead of simply expressions of the current state of our knowledge and ignorance of the causes and conditions of the behaviour in question.

Such matters were once adduced as proof of Jeffersonian hypocrisy or as an argument about his inflated stature.

But the Archbishops Council of the Church off England adduced other reasons for hesitation, emphasising that it was worried about the safety and ethical aspects of the technique.

Let me now say something about some of the arguments that have been adduced today.