Sentence examples for affairs of this sort from inspiring English sources

Perhaps unrelieved suffering's being bad is a state of affairs of this sort, or perhaps rational beings' being worthy of respect.

We can define a proposition as a state of affairs of this latter sort — it is impossible for there to be times when it occurs and other times when it does not occur.

It may be assumed that that the feather moves at t and that the feather remains motionless at t are a pair of states of affairs of the sort in question.

While it's always been a vital tool for the intelligence community as you will see in the Time story, it's also being used now by anyone who wants to keep their online affairs of any sort private.

Pundits dove into the Syria affair with an obvious sigh of relief — this sort of thing, with all the bloviation about presidential leadership and so on, was comfortable territory.

To summarize: he defines world to be a state of affairs of a certain sort.

He thought he could explain all talk of propositions (category 5) by appeal to states of affairs of a certain sort.

Similarly, he thought he could explain all talk of concrete events (category 6) by appeal to states of affairs of a different sort.

Of course, like the abstractionist, the combinatorialist could simply stipulate as part of the definition that all legitimate recombinations must be genuinely possible states of affairs of a certain sort, genuinely possible recombinations.

The speech appeared to confirm earlier assertions from people close to the case that Mr. Wang and Ms. Gu had had an affair of some sort.

I only hope the love affair – of a sort and style we see so little of on TV – isn't forgotten in the forthcoming twists and turns.