Sentence examples for certain sort of action from inspiring English sources

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A deontological restriction forbids a certain sort of action (e.g., stealing) even when stealing here is the only way to prevent even more stealing in the long run.

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Instead of telling executive branch officials individually to take specific actions, an EO enables the president to tell the entire executive branch to begin taking certain sorts of actions, such as to develop policies and proposed regulations or administer federal contracts in a particular way (and provided that the instructions do not conflict with federal law).

These constraints usually take the form of categorical rules to perform or refrain from certain sorts of actions (e.g., to keep promises or to refrain from lying), regardless of the consequences.

In his view, to make a normative statement such as 'you must stop at a red light' is to say that you have a certain sort of reason for action.

It will be a powerful language for analyzing certain sorts of activity.

They endorse the externalist position that only a certain sort of history will permit a reasons-responsive action to issue appropriately in freely willed actions (1998, pp. 194-206).

Most theorists writing about evil believe that evil action requires a certain sort of motivation.

(Roughly, and taking the notion of an evaluative property as fundamental: for a notion to be normative is for it to be a certain sort of evaluative notion, one that is essentially action-guiding; for a notion to be moral is for it to be a certain sort of normative notion, one that exhibits impartiality).

You know, there is a certain sort of sincerity that is opposed to a certain sort of fun.

A certain sort of flourishing, a certain sort of what the Greeks called eudaimonia, available to people whose souls exhibit a certain kind of harmony.

This outward lie makes a certain sort of truth possible.

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