Sentence examples for asserting the priority of from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

"It underscores the priority of the issue.

"That's the priority of this Administration".

The priority of the three varies.

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.

To assert that a given statement is true, they argue, is merely another way of asserting the statement itself.