Sentence examples for decrees thinking from inspiring English sources

Plato emphasises the point by having Cleitophon and Polemarchus recapitulate the argument, with the former charitably suggesting that Thrasymachus meant that the just is whatever the stronger decrees thinking it is to his advantage (in effect, an amendment to (2) which would remove the contradiction): a solution which Thrasymachus vehemently rejects (340a-c).

That started to change when Byrne's daughter gave her a book about the law of attraction, which decrees that thoughts have physical power, and that thinking about something is the way to get it.

At around that time, Jamil Mukulu had decreed that any person with intentions to escape, or even thinking of escaping; that person would be executed.

Here again, Ibn Ezra, in his biblical commentaries, was vague enough to give the impression that Jews alone are exempt from the decrees of the stars, thus ingratiating himself to those many of his readers who were disposed to thinking that way.

Against this way of thinking, Saʿadia and the Muʿtazilites believed that being good and just or being evil and unjust are intrinsic characteristics of human actions and cannot be changed by divine decree.

And thinking, thinking, thinking".

"You will eat alone," she decrees.

He came away from the first visit thinking Lincoln might at least declare the slaves in Virginia free, but by the second visit, the president had again shifted course fearing that if he issued such a decree "half the officers would fling down their arms & three more States would rise".

The government estimates its liability at 4 billion reais ($1.5 billion) and is now thinking of capping the awards.In the absence of a national reckoning, victims are now pressing for the opening of archives shut by Brazil's previous president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who in his final days in office decreed a doubling of the secrecy period for classified documents.

Whatever Rex decrees is constitutionally valid.

In smacking down the class action, the judge decreed: "The numbers are so large, the stakes were so high, and the fall of the dollar value of WorldCom stock so precipitous, that the reader reacts by thinking that there must have been some corporate misbehavior….