Sentence examples for by virtue of certain from inspiring English sources

We only learn when one word stops and the next one starts over time, by virtue of certain verbal cues — for instance, different languages have different general principles of inflection (the rise and fall of a voice within a word or a sentence) and syllabification (the stress patterns of syllables) — combined with actual semantic knowledge.

In his 1950 essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," Quine launched an attack upon the traditional distinction between analytic statements, which were said to be true by virtue of the meanings of the terms they contain, and synthetic statements, which were supposed to be true (or false) by virtue of certain facts about the world.

There is thus increasing reliance on ultrasound and colour Doppler, by virtue of certain specific characteristics for detecting malignancy, to select nodules for FNA or biopsy [2].

This means that secondary structure simply by virtue of causing certain regions to be duplex versus certain others, results in low and high mutation regimes.

For being is said in a prior sense of God and in a posterior sense of creatures by virtue of a certain relation between the two; likewise, being is said first of substance and secondarily of accidents, on account of the relation of posteriority accidents have to substance.

"The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities; we should regard the female nature as afflicted with a natural defectiveness".

Four teams from Canada earn the right to represent Team North America by virtue of winning certain events, namely the Canada Cup of Curling and the Canadian National Championships (the Brier and the Tournament of Hearts).

This notion that certain people, by virtue of sharing a certain identity are invisible and inaccessible by ordinary means, has become powerful and ubiquitous [ 34] and 'reaching' them has become somewhat of a holy grail.

How can something represent the world outside simply by virtue of playing a certain causal role in a cognitive system?

Wives of all of the aforementioned have precedence corresponding to their husbands', unless otherwise entitled to a higher precedence, for instance by virtue of holding a certain office.

For instance, the afternoon sun, in CP Cavafy's poem of that name, by virtue of shining on a certain bed in a certain room, just as it always has done, summons up an entire past life and love.