Sentence examples for affectional from inspiring English sources

The material is further analyzed into 28 states, the samskara into 50 (falling into three groups: intellectual, affectional, and volitional), and the vijnana into 89 kinds of states of consciousness.

And, of course, like nearly every one of the controversies that preoccupy and bedevil the Church — abortion, stem-cell research, contraception, celibacy, marriage and divorce and affectional orientation — it's about sex.

Therefore, the judge said, she was not entitled to protection under state bias laws, which say it is unlawful for an employer to dismiss someone based on the person's sex or "affectional or sexual orientation".

Rather than trumpeting the affectional preferences of Waleska Martinez, a computer whiz in the Census Bureau's New York office, or Mark Bingham, a former University of California rugby player, he unobtrusively quotes their same-sex partners.

Over time these links are reinforced through repeated exposure, leading to affectional bonds.

Mr. Dale filed suit under the state civil rights law, which bars discrimination on the basis of "affectional or sexual orientation".

Or we might pick on the energy of new liberations to come -- actually already here -- as politicized concepts of identity based on gender and sexual preference begin to blur and an uptight etiquette of "affectional behavior" mellows out.