Sentence examples for an expression of will from inspiring English sources
A military power cannot be measured only by the level of its defense budget, but expenditures are an indication of capabilities as well as an expression of will — or the lack of it.
As an activity attention is an expression of will; since consciousness just is attention in its shifting forms, it is the activity of will manifested in the selection, combination, and separation of disposable representations (PP II: 564).
Following Hobbes and Bentham, the English jurist John Austin says that to have a legal obligation is to be subject to a sovereign command to do or forbear, where a command requires an expression of will together with an attached risk, however small, of suffering an evil for non-compliance.
"And I think that the will to create was an expression of the will to live, and survive, as human beings".
The prosecution is accusing the population of supporting me, and let me say that my behavior here is an expression of the will of the citizens as well, the will of the people.
Is this bombastic militarism on the part of our leaders an expression of the will of the people?
The fight in him was an expression of life, will, engagement with the world; an expression of wonder, ultimately.
By contract, the jokes are Hope's intellectual property — an expression of his will, if not of his self.
In the best scenario, it is an expression of what will be a turn toward reconciliation and thoughtful justice, rather than simple retribution, in a post-Qaddafi Libya.
Taken as an expression of the will of the people, they can have real meaning when strategic choices are at stake, and well debated.
"Our first visit should be understood as an expression of the will of the future government of Brazil to give a decisive impetus to the reconstruction of Mercosur together with our partners in the region," Mr. da Silva said.
