Sentence examples for constitute autonomy from inspiring English sources

Important in this context is whether autonomy can be manifested in degrees — whether the abilities and capacities that constitute autonomy obtain all at once or progressively.

Some such views also waiver between claiming that social and personal relations play a crucial causal role in the development and enjoyment of autonomy and claiming that such relations constitute autonomy (for discussion see Mackenzie and Stoljar, 2000b, 21 26; for a recent overview, see Mackenzie 2014).

However, it is difficult to pin down exactly what constitutes autonomy.

The balance decline, the appearance of fear of falling, and the resulting loss of autonomy, constitute a major problem for public health.

For each resident, the ratings for the six items were added up to constitute a functional autonomy score varying between 6 and 24.

"Baby" and "Boy" are tightly tailored to Mr. Lewis's talents and needs as a performer; as transitional films, made after his breakup with Dean Martin (a national trauma in the 1950s, as well as a personal one) but before he achieved complete creative autonomy, they constitute an important chapter in the continuing psychobiography that is Mr. Lewis's show business career.

This may be viewed as interfering with patient autonomy and constitute medical paternalism and appear in direct opposition to the tenets of modern practice.

Without such intentions, parents are not exercising a right to procreate, and thus policies to curtail their behavior do not constitute coercive infringements of procreative autonomy.

In our opinion, an improvement in functional autonomy did not constitute an appropriate primary outcome measure for this type of intervention, in the light of the disease's evolution.

It is true that oppressive social conditions do not typically produce pathologies or cognitive impairments; neither do the social conditions of oppression usually constitute direct coercion sufficient to erode autonomy.

The rest of the "abuse" could more accurately be described as "heckling", and there's no need to go into Mogg's appalling voting record and the abuses his politics constitute – for instance, against female bodily autonomy – to defend that.