Sentence examples for commitment to the primacy from inspiring English sources

"I want to be certain," he said in an interview yesterday, "that my successors and their successors do not forget the commitment to the primacy of the individual investor as being central to the success of our markets".

It involves, in other words, a commitment to the primacy of what Talcott Parsons would later call "the action frame of reference" (Parsons 1937: 43 51) in social-scientific explanation.

At the request of Lavater, he wrote an open letter to Fichte (Jacobi, 1799) in which he restated all his objections to philosophy in general and the new idealism in particular, and reaffirmed his commitment to the primacy of faith.

But although Paivio (1986) explicitly claims to be an Empiricist, this seems to be mainly a way of indicating his commitment to the primacy of the experimental method in science, as opposed to "rationalistic" methods like computer simulation.

Nevertheless, both Descartes and Spinoza provide a starting point for their metaphysical doctrines with their conceptions of God, a starting point that is already infected with idealistic elements if (ontological) idealism is understood as implying a commitment to the primacy or at least the unavoidability and irreducibility of mental items in the constitution and order of things in general.

Popper was a somewhat paradoxical man, whose theoretic commitment to the primacy of rational criticism was counterpointed by hostility towards anything that amounted to less than total acceptance of his own thought, and in Britain — as had been the case in Vienna — he became increasingly an isolated figure, though his ideas continued to inspire admiration.

Dr. Chen Pichler said that protesters doubted Dr. Fernandes's commitment to upholding the primacy of American Sign Language on campus, and that the next person selected would have to be strongly committed to reinforcing what is often referred to as Deaf culture — with a capital D — at Gallaudet.

Such is the agony and the ecstasy of Williams, once questioned for her commitment to the sport and her chances of returning to primacy from myriad injuries.

American primacy is, in part, a consequence of innate advantages: political stability, healthy demographics and commitment to the rule of law.

Instead, a renewed commitment to the basics.

Just absolute commitment to the team.