Sentence examples for asserted the priority from inspiring English sources

Mīr Dāmād returned to Avicenna and sought to harmonize his views with those of al-Suhrawardī on the assumption that what Avicenna meant by his "Oriental" (mashriqiyyah) philosophy was identical with al-Suhrawardī's wisdom of "illumination" (ishrāq), which he interpreted as a Platonic doctrine that asserted the priority of essence (form) over being (existence).

So a week after the police crime figures were revealed as fictitious, the home secretary comes along to assert the priority of fighting the alleged scourge of slavery.

The fragment itself asserts the priority of the science of calculation (ha logistika, "logistic") to the other sciences, such as geometry, and thus suggests a technical work of mathematics.

In Galen's view, qualitative alteration is needed to produce the powers whereby beneficent Nature directs change: Galen credits the first group with asserting the priority of Nature and its beneficent order, and the latter with denying this.

Kant's explicit arguments in the Nova dilucidatio for physical influx (in the guise of the principle of succession) are directed primarily against the conception of grounds and existence held by Wolff, Baumgarten, and Meier, and only secondarily against Leibniz (by asserting the priority of bodies over mind rather than vice versa).

Verrilli asserted the president's authority to set priorities for immigration enforcement.

They asserted the need for HIV prevention workers to engage in dialogue with and incorporate the priorities and ideas of the young people that they were trying to serve.

"Yes!" asserted the tourist-general.

According to Beauchamp (1976), "public health should be a way of doing justice, a way of asserting the value and priority of all human life" (p. 8), regardless of what one did to merit incarceration.

The State of the Union is a time for reflection, as well as for asserting the nation's priorities for the future.

The border visit, Martin asserted, reflected a priority of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.