Sentence examples for descriptive statements from inspiring English sources

Additionally, the severe generalised HS description included more descriptive statements highlighting the emotional impact of these manifestations e.g. depression and anxiety associated with an inability to carry out daily activities and the perception of being a burden to family and friends.

Schleiden and Schwann's descriptive statements concerning the cellular basis of biologic structure are straightforward and acceptable to modern thought.

Not just because people can lie, but because language is much more than descriptive statements like "The cat is on the windowsill".

Joseph Mitchell, for instance, depends a lot on Joyce and Hemingway, but what makes him different is that his descriptive statements are usually universals -- statements not about a scene but about a permanent situation.

Austin argued that speech always falls somewhere along a wide spectrum between purely descriptive statements, such as scientific equations, and purely active statements, such as a priest's declaration that a couple is married.

From this semantic approach follows Prabhakara's principle of Vedic interpretation: all Vedic texts are to be interpreted as bearing on courses of action prescribed, and there are no merely descriptive statements in the scriptures.

For the second tier, the students provided a reason matching the available descriptive statement (e.g., "I like the parts about physics").

In their first tier, students would agree, disagree, or remain neutral about a descriptive statement (e.g., "Science lessons are among my favorite lessons").

Waldron takes Locke to be making a descriptive statement, not a normative one, about the condition that happens to have initially existed.

This is a potentially endogenous outcome, so it should thus be viewed as providing a descriptive statement of whether employed treated individuals are earning more or less on average than employed control individuals.

When we state "'Green' means green" we may appear to be making a descriptive statement whereas, in fact, we are prescribing how 'green' ought to be used (Gauker 2007, 2011, Lance & O'Leary Hawthorne 1997, Peregrin 2012: 96, Gibbard 2012).