Sentence examples for apprehending from inspiring English sources

The word "apprehending" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to express the idea of being fearful or worried about something that may happen. For example: "I was apprehensive about taking such a difficult test."

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apprehending

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Present participle of apprehend

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In his analysis of consciousness in the Thirty Verses (Triṃśikā-kārikā, I, 1) Vasubandhu treats apprehending subject and apprehended phenomena are emergent properties of the threefold transformation of consciousness (vijñānapariṇama).

"THE current Serbian strategy for apprehending the fugitives is comprehensively failing.

It is an elegiac work Mr Walcott was 80 in January whose stance recalls two other great poets who raged against the dying of the light, Dylan Thomas and W.B. Yeats.As with Yeats, the very possibility of death's approach gives a new urgency and a new energy to the apprehending eye.

Western governments had put pressure on Croatia to help with apprehending him.In Moscow, a city-council election, widely seen as a precursor to the 2007 Russian parliamentary election, was overwhelmingly won by United Russia, the party backed by President Vladimir Putin.

To paraphrase the question, Tertullian asks what relationship exists between the world of revealed religion in which God's self-manifestation is the ultimate source of knowledge and the free intellectual inquiry of Greek philosophy.One may conclude, like Tertullian, that Athens and Jerusalem are in the end separate worlds, separate ways of apprehending reality.

Apprehending Mr Coke against his will would require the police to storm the barricades his supporters have set up around Tivoli Gardens.

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In other words, we do not remember events by re-apprehending them.

As he put it, "in the judgement of knowledge and the act of knowledge in general we do not combine our apprehensions, but apprehend a combination" (SI, 279), and it is "the nature of the elements themselves" which "determines which unity they have or can have"; the 'apprehending mind' has "no power whatever to make a complex idea out of simple ones" (SI, 524).

To put it another way, Cook Wilson is suggesting that knowledge contains its object: "what we apprehend is included in the apprehension as a part of the activity or reality of apprehending" (SI, 70).

The application of these principles to sensory perception makes it difficult to explain how perception directly apprehends sense objects, for it implies that objects have ceased when their apprehending consciousness arises.

Cook Wilson also argued against the neo-Kantian (not neo-Hegelian) views of idealists such as T. H. Green, that apprehension has no 'synthetic' character, i.e., he argued that any synthesis apprehended is attributed to the object and not the result of an activity of the 'apprehending mind'.

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