Sentence examples for constituted us from inspiring English sources

Before being passed, the resolution was amended to make clear that mid-air refueling of Saudi coalition planes by US tankers constituted US participation in the Yemen hostilities.

Indeed, if morality were grounded in feeling, it would be arbitrary: God could have constituted us so that we would get from vice the pleasurable, calm feelings of approval that we now (allegedly) get from virtue (M 29 625).

Turnbull, a deeply committed Christian, believed that the author of our nature would not have so constituted us as to accept the deliverances of our nature if our nature could not be relied upon to deliver up truth.

Accounts from behind the closed doors of negotiating session described tense exchanges between oil-producing countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, and a rapidly constituted US- and Europe-backed High Ambition Coalition, which kept up the pressure for a strong temperature goal and regular reviews of emission-cutting plans.

It's far easier to attack "them" than examine the deceit, delusions and cultural certainties that constitute "us" – whether by acknowledging the depredations of the British empire or exposing its legacy of structural racism.

Future policymakers will have to contend with what constitutes "us" and "them" in existing societies and how we collectively create a sense of group belonging.

"Interface constitutes us as subjects," cautions Desmet.

Facebook and Google are not only carrying us, but constituting us.

These ends are public, the res publica that constitutes us as a common people.

Given this understanding, however, Lilla concludes that, in current America politics, everyone is a liberal: "We take it for granted that we are born free, that we constitute society, it doesn't constitute us and that together we legitimately govern ourselves".

It is to this that the philosopher Paul Ricoeur points when he speaks of "life as an activity and a passion in search of a narrative". Indeed, for Ricoeur, a life is "the field of a constructive activity, by which we attempt to discover... the narrative identity which constitutes us". Narrative medicine arises from the awareness of this relation between narrativity and identity.