Sentence examples for contemplation against from inspiring English sources

How do you practice meditation and quiet contemplation against the sound of drills, penetrating your space?

He even suggests that the life of contemplation is secure against the need for external goods (1177a30).

After 26 days of contemplation, Howe decided against a frontal attack on Harlem Heights and Fort Washington, and chose instead to attempt a flanking maneuver.

Next, one contemplates change, albeit ambivalently, weighing gains against losses (contemplation).

You end up contemplating your own contemplation.

On Monday, the backbencher Julian Huppert also wrote against blocking any contemplation of shutting down social networks.

Mr. Bush is expected to deliver to Mr. Wen a warning against any Chinese contemplation of coercion of Taiwan.

There were two ways, then, of resisting evil: engagement and disengagement; attachment and detachment; action against it and contemplation despite it.

I've seen someone pray at a Rublev icon in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery; by western European standards, a blasphemy against the secular contemplation expected in a museum.

"Zzyzx Rd" is a love song written to Taylor's wife for helping him in his struggles against alcoholism and contemplation of suicide.

Once again, the contemplation group listed reasons for and against learning their risk, while the control group simply gave eight facts they had learned about the disease.