Sentence examples for as existing only from inspiring English sources

To think of such a being as existing only in thought and not also in reality involves a contradiction.

Viewed from the liberal standpoint, racism is seen as existing only at these two extreme ends – the Islamist and the far rightwing – both united in their common rejection of multiculturalism, conveniently made synonymous with "Australian values".

Most of the jokes in the Internet video "Prop 8 — the Musical," a comedic song-and-dance diatribe about the California ballot initiative defining marriage as existing only between a man and a woman, are in its lyrics.

The "essentialism" versus "gender theory" wars emerged only belatedly, in the 1980s, as legal activists sought to downplay any potential biological differences between women and men in pursuit of equal treatment in the workplace and, elsewhere, academic feminists were inspired by post-structuralism to create a discipline that cast gender as existing only as a social norm.

PAGE C1 A PROPOSITION 8 'WHAT IF?' The Internet video "Prop 8 -- The Musical," a comedic song-and-dance diatribe about the California ballot initiative voters approved last month to define marriage as existing only between a man and a woman, has proved a hit since being posted Wednesday on FunnyOrDie.com.

"He regarded contemporary life in America as destructive to the spirit, organized religion as a celestial swindle, the federal government as cumbersome and avaricious; he saw the average wage earner, who was excessively taxed and easily replaced, as existing only with detached participation in a computerized society".

Thus, instead of thinking of relations as the items responsible for relating two or more substances, they now begin to think of them as items existing only in the mind that is, as mere beings of reason or concepts.

Members of parliament are seen as robots, existing only in the Westminster bubble and the echo-chamber of the House of Commons.

But Ms. Allen's being physically present — as opposed to existing only as a disembodied voice — counts for a lot.

Nor was he another David Manning, David Manning happening not to exist — or, more precisely, existing only as a Platonic ideal in the head of someone in the advertising department at Sony Pictures Entertainment, who had made up the quote and him both.

The "coins" do not exist physically, of course, as the currencies are virtual existing only as computer files.