Sentence examples for ambiguous existence from inspiring English sources

It is the collision with the rock-solid world that resolves the particle's ambiguous existence.

How am I playing?' " But down the hallway, in a Raptors locker room far removed from the Nets' ambiguous existence, Morris Peterson offered up an example of awareness.

Supreme Court Justice Melville Weston Fuller, dissenting in the 1901 Downes v. Bidwell case on the status of Puerto Rico, had warned that "if an organized and settled province of another sovereignty is acquired by the United States," Congress would retain the power "to keep it, like a disembodied shade, in an intermediate state of ambiguous existence for an indefinite period".

Many of the rare international matches come from the Tibetan National Sports Association's affiliation with the Nouvelle Fédération Board, a congregation of football teams from nations of an ambiguous political existence – dependencies, unrecognized states, minorities, stateless people, regions and micronations not recognized by FIFA.

While admitting that the notion of machines rising up against their masters is a well-established sci-fi device, Mr. Moore sees this new breed of enemy as a more ambiguous adversary, whose existence raises intriguing and complex questions.

Dom Augustine Calmet, a well-respected French theologian and scholar, put together a comprehensive treatise in 1746, which was ambiguous concerning the existence of vampires.

Due to the existence of ambiguous cells, we use approximate influence instead of accurate facility influence.

無 bo 4 may be ambiguous between negation of existence and negation of deontic modality in Old Chinese.

This significant priming effect suggests that, regardless of the ROM of the ambiguous word and the existence of contextual support, both meanings of an ambiguous word were activated.

The existence of ambiguous expressions prevents a coherent semantics to be defined by induction on type system derivations, where coherence establishes a single well-defined meaning for each expression.

It is noteworthy that 沒 mei 2 resulting from the convergence of 無 and 未 in Mandarin is ambiguous between negation of existence and negation of perfectives or inchoatives, as in 他沒腳 ta 1 mei 2 jiao 3 he not.have leg 'he has no legs' and 他沒繳 he not.yet pay 'he has not paid (e.g., taxes) yet'.