The li constituted the "Way" of Confucianism as interpreted by Xunzi, being the ritualized norms governing the mores, manners, and morals of the people.
Imperial virtues (wisdom, benevolence, and courage), symbolized by the Sanshu no Shinki (Three Sacred Treasures), and national ethics, such as loyalty and filial piety, constituted the way to rule the state.
To regain its historic mission and activate its natural constituencies, the party must, above all, face the fact of its own culpability in the odor of the legalized bribery that constitutes the way we finance our campaigns.
The selections in "Shakespeare's Montaigne," then, "in their rich Elizabethan idiom and wildly inventive turns of phrase, constitute the way Montaigne spoke to Renaissance England".
An additional methodological problem constitutes the way cases have been classified in old studies.
For example, skin injuries may be a convenient way of anthrax spreading; for example, soil contaminations may be dangerous especially for patients predisposed to bacterial infections, such as those suffering from diabetic foot syndrome, because of nonhealing ulcers that may constitute the way for spores or vegetative forms to invade the human organism.
Strictly speaking, the additivity-to-background argument does not deny that this kind of systemic stability and homeostasis operates and indeed that it constitutes the way in which those individuals who are not especially sensitive manage to tolerate exposures to the chemical in question.
Level 2: the character of experience is explained by the intrinsic qualities of experience which constitute the ways in which it is modified (§3.2).
When the objects of inquiry are knowers themselves, these assumptions rule out the possibility that knowers' self-understandings help constitute the ways knowers are.
However, significant differences among the trainees were found regarding their use of intuition in decision-making, the way in which they sought answers to their questions, and their perception of what constituted the best way of applying EBM in general practice.
For all these reasons, SEM constituted the most fitting way to examine the interrelationships among teachers' satisfaction with salary, self-efficacy, years of experience, administrative support, the socioeconomic impact of their students' families, and student truancy that directly or indirectly impacted the intentions of math and science teachers to remain in the profession.
