Sentence examples for defends the notion from inspiring English sources

No thinking Christian (and there are many) defends the notion that the Earth is 6,000 years old, or that women descend from a male ribcage.

He defends the notion of plurality of forms while strongly arguing for the essential substantial unity of the human being.

In the Examination of Hamilton's Philosophy, Mill vigorously defends the notion of human beings as active in their own self-determination.

2. For a theory of privacy that defends the notion of "limited control," as opposed to a full-blown "control theory" of privacy, see Moor 1997; Tavani and Moor 2001; Tavani 2007).

Taking on McGinn's (and Ichikawa's) arguments in detail, Thomas (2014), defends the notion of a spectrum or continuum of imaginative phenomena that encompasses not only veridical perception and mental imagery, but also such things as dreams, hallucinations, pareidolia, and various other types of both deceptive and non-deceptive "imaginative perceiving".

Dr. Faltz said the trend might make it "difficult to defend the notion of American music in the future".

"Has our N.C.A.A. board decided not to defend the notion that playing N.C.A.A. sports is not forced?" Plonsky wrote.

At one point, Mr. Costello drew applause for defending the notion of questioning authority as an act of patriotism.

Lutheran philosophers and theologians, such as Christian Wolff (1679 1754) and Johann Salomo Semler (1725 91), defended the notion of the harmony of reason and revelation.

But Mr. Urwand strongly defended the notion of "collaboration," noting that the word (and its German equivalent, Zusammenarbeit) occurs repeatedly in documents on both sides.

But a report released last month by the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness, a research and policy group, presents a convincing set of facts to defend the notion of causality.