Sentence examples for circumstances obtaining from inspiring English sources

Lastly, academia is also criticised for its eurocentrism which prevents a complex world view Said summarises the problems of objectivity when he points out the "highly if obscurely organized political circumstances obtaining when knowledge is produced" [40].

In these circumstances obtaining informed consent can be problematic.

Under these circumstances, obtaining vascular access and beginning resuscitation are immediate needs.

"No political body must ever, under any circumstances, obtain a monopoly of radio," she wrote.

David Hollingworth, an associate director at the mortgage brokers London & Country, said that some 66-year-old men on equivalent salaries could still, under certain circumstances, obtain mortgages.

A different set of circumstances obtained on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park, where a published edition of "The Laramie Project" was given to incoming freshmen this year, "to provide all entering students with a shared intellectual experience," said Phyllis Peres, the dean of undergraduate studies.

The baseline distribution can also be specified synchronically, by comparing the prevailing distribution to a distribution that would have held had different circumstances obtained.

Learning mechanisms have certain functions and when they perform their functions in particular circumstances their products can have adapted derived proper functions in relation to those circumstances, whether or not the circumstances obtained during the history of our species.

But this is just another way of saying something that compatibilists have always said: that someone may have the ability to do X even though she would not exercise her ability unless different circumstances obtained (e.g., circumstances which provide her with reasons for doing X).

Many important Ābhidhārmikas, i.e., those of the Sarvāstivāda school, regarded dharmas from a complex double perspective: a) their intrinsic natures (svabhāva), i.e., what they are, and b) their present causal activity (kāritra) along with their capabilities (sāmarthya) to lead to effects when the appropriate circumstances obtain.

The Enlist Act would allow some undocumented immigrants to join the military and then, under certain circumstances, obtain a green card.