Sentence examples for by a discourse of from inspiring English sources

Many liberals would like to see the idea of evil replaced by a discourse of harm: we should talk instead about how people do damage to each other and themselves.

For the past three decades, Mintz writes, discussions of child-rearing in the United States have been dominated by a "discourse of crisis," and yet America's youth are now, on average, "bigger, richer, better educated, and healthier than at any other time in history".

According to Steensen [64], research on online journalism has been dominated by a discourse of technological innovation.

The urban fabric bears the marks – state buildings, subsidized housing and transportation, civil servant salaries – of the relationship between government and the educated elite, animated by a discourse of shared commitment to national development (Tall 2009).

This tension has long existed, but is frequently obscured by a discourse of healthcare ethics which tends to be dominated by narratives of individual autonomy, developed to help manage the power dynamics in individual patient doctor relationships (Gostin, 2003; Mann, 1997; O'Neill, 2002).

By employing a discourse of illegal logging and by framing local actors as the main drivers of deforestation, the World Bank achieved considerable deregulation of the forest sector.

Any niche level innovation (in spite of any claims to being the emergent dominant social model) struggling for ascendance will often try to establish legitimacy by recourse to a discourse of technological innovation—"We have the technology, this time it will be different"!

With sex education long gone from schools, and religion lessons securely installed in its stead, public debate about sexuality and motherhood is run by the Catholic church – a discourse of shame, not rights.

Such a non-violent revolution could secularise the state, separating it from religion, and revolutionise religion itself by redefining Islam as a discourse of freedom and a method not for obtaining and managing power, but for expanding freedom.

Janáček features accompaniment figures and patterns, with (according to Jim Samson) "the on-going movement of his music...similarly achieved by unorthodox means; often a discourse of short, 'unfinished' phrases comprising constant repetitions of short motifs which gather momentum in a cumulative manner".

He has deployed a discourse of fear by questioning the HDP's loyalty to the country, while asserting that the PKK and Isis are one and the same.