Sentence examples for an account of progress from inspiring English sources

Here the philosopher of science needs to provide an account of progress in terms of convergence on the truth or to show how progress can be understood in other terms.

Ultimately it calls into question whether he can be said truly to propose an account of progress.

Apply for one of their online loans and, provided your application is successful, you'll get a series of happy messages, dotted with upbeat exclamation marks, giving an account of the progress of the loan.

He describes an account of the progress of a deer embryo by the 17th-century natural philosopher William Harvey (more famous for his discovery of the circulation of the blood) as "one of the loveliest descriptions of a mammalian foetus ever written".

Van Fraassen has not developed an account of scientific progress in terms of his constructive empiricism, but presumably such an account would be close to empiricist notions of reduction and Laudan's account of problem-solving ability (see Section 3.2).

According to Prapancha, "the prince was not for long in the royal residence," and much of the poem is an account of royal progresses.

A1 President Bush gave an upbeat account of progress being made by the United States in restoring services and order in Iraq, but did not make any long-term financial commitment to rebuilding, nor give specifics about the length of an American presence there.

This chapter gives an updated account of progress in alloy design, synthesis, structure, and performance of this class of alloys.

The reader is referred to the following books and research articles which provide an extensive account of progress made on Ulam's problem during the last seventy years (cf. [8 33]).

Govinda travelled through Tibet prior to the Chinese invasion of 1950, but his book is no mere travelogue; it is an account of a spiritual progress.

Interspersed with an account of their woeful progress through the decades are the cool observations of a dispassionate narrator on the crises and failures of contemporary society, the rise of science and the decline of religion, the animalistic nature of sexual desire and the inability of the liberal western intellect to come up with any coherent response to the disasters that enfold it.