Sentence examples for as its essential from inspiring English sources

This distinction is then applied to the soul: because it always causes life in whatever it occupies, it must have life as its essential property, which it cannot lose.

"It's no accident that the state that relies on the gaming industry as its essential economy has all these problems.

Sometimes such spaces allow people to detach aspects of their identity (cultural, vocational, sexual) from what they have hitherto seen as its essential and dominating character.

I came to Salinger's novel late, after graduating from college, and was put off by its preciousness, and what struck me, if I may say so, as its essential phoniness.

The Lucerne project was the zenith of a life in music that had as its essential credo a word that you don't always associate with conductors, those supposed tyrants of the podium: "listen".

Another project suggested building contiguously between Tokyo and Osaka so that the two cities would become an uninterrupted megalopolis: the island of Japan imagined as a body and the new mega-city as its essential hub.

Issuing what may have been the first juridical defense of clergy-penitent privilege in centuries, De Witt Clinton, who as Mayor of New York City served as a judge for the case, declared: "It is essential to the free exercise of a religion, that its ordinances should be administered -- that its ceremonies as well as its essentials should be protected...

Petals of R. damascena contain flavonol aglycons like kaempferol, quercetin and its glycosides such as kaempferol glycosides, quercitrin etc., citronellol and geraniol as the major components of its essential oil as well as tocopherol and carotene [ 19, 36, 37].

A urinal is not an art object as long as it is carrying out its essential function.

He appears now as literature's Linnaeus (taxonomizing a vast new trove of data), now as Vesalius (exposing its essential skeleton), now as Galileo (revealing and reordering the universe of books), now as Darwin (seeking "a law of literary ­evolution").

Greece, Italy, Spain and Morocco have even asked Unesco to designate the diet as an "intangible piece of cultural heritage," a testament to its essential value as well as its potential extinction.