Sentence examples for conceived merely from inspiring English sources

Therefore, it must be borne in mind that grave imbalances are produced when economic action, conceived merely as an engine for wealth creation, is detached from political action, conceived as a means for pursuing justice through redistribution".

On this approach, practical reason is not conceived merely as a capacity for working out the implications of one's existing desires and commitments; it equally involves the capacity to reason about what it would objectively be good to do, and to act on the basis of this kind of evaluative reflection.

Niemeyer was never interested in conceiving merely functional projects.

I've gone down this road before, suggesting that the story is the equivalent of a musical melody or an architectural framework: a basis, not a goal; an element that may either be charmingly memorable or ingeniously conceived, but that is merely a starting point for a significant work, not a result.

The chart above might suggest that this portion of matter is one thing with three parts; but it is conceived of merely as a quantity of matter.

Afterward, on the phone, Alex McMurray explained that Chaz Fest was conceived not merely to cock a snook at Jazz Fest.

The Museum of Natural History of México City has a few evolutionary trees, none of which is accurate as they were conceived as merely decorative.

Gould (1990) expressed concern that an extinction-driven trend may be hard to accept because the loss of species through extinction might be conceived as merely whittling down variation among species.

Time moves forward, we often say, while space is commonly conceived as merely an empty gap that passively rests between, for example, the walls of a house or the beams of a bridge.

Their figures are merely life size but conceived in a transcendently sophisticated, courtly style.

First, a language system as conceived by structuralists is merely virtual and hence timeless, but discourse always occurs as an actual event at some particular moment of time.