Sentence examples for directed at oneself from inspiring English sources

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Sincerely accepting a command directed at oneself involves doing it if one is in circumstances where it applies and one is able and otherwise intending to do it should one find oneself in those circumstances (Hare 1952, 20).

But, insofar as Hare also suggests that accepting a command directed at oneself requires an intention to act accordingly (Hare 1952, 20), he seems committed to a closer connection between moral judgment and motivating states than the Missionaries and Cannibals Argument vindicates.

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These factors help explain why college students are particularly prone to violence directed at others and oneself.

Violent death by accident and violence directed at others or against oneself in suicide are how life is most likely to end, until in old age when disease eventually overtakes the aging body and it succumbs.

Second, because prayers are directed at someone you believe can answer them, the function of reminding oneself of what one can and should do can get diluted.

Those exhortations being directed at the president could be just as easily be turned on countless co-workers, spouses, friends (or oneself): Lose it.

It's directed at Washington.

Dodd-Frank is not directed at people.

It wasn't directed at David.

This time it was directed at Gupta.

Directed at you.

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