Sentence examples for directly known from inspiring English sources
His most prominent success so far has been persuading the court to overturn the agency's rules that would permit shareholders to nominate directors directly, known as proxy access.
In defence of specifically Christian belief, Plantinga argues that the same warrant-conferring status belongs to the operation of the Holy Spirit in making the great truths of the Gospel directly known to the believer.
The method turns an ordinary object into an "infinitely various porcupine, which is not merely here in this room (as we commonly take it to be) but sticks out as it were in all sorts of directions and to all sorts of distances…" (Price 1932, 56) The neutral monist can explain how this porcupine can be directly known.
Insofar as even the bare intention to acquire the belief that p for reasons not having to do with one's evidence for p seems unlikely to succeed if directly known, most intentionalists introduce temporal or psychological divisions that serve to insulate self-deceivers from the awareness of their deceptive strategy.
"We asked our friends to identify the smartest, most entrepreneurial people they knew who were not already directly known to Founders Fund," Gibney told me, "And then we made sure that these were people who wanted to go out and change the world – people who hadn't succumbed to irony, boredom or cynicism, but had a real plan for how to make things better through technology.
Besides the driver who sent four of our protesters to the hospital, the only additional case where the cause of injury is directly known involved a man from the conservative conference who pushed a woman over.
We must directly know the truth about their time together.
Yet you never directly know about their relationship.
An obvious candidate for the real answer is that we are shaped by our genes in ways that none of us can directly know.
No one who directly knew Anderson will give evidence aside from Rosie Batty, with the killer's parents too elderly and frail to testify.
"Whether or not he directly knew – and the case against him is circumstantial – did he actually do what was necessary for any moral person and pursue the interests of the children being abused?
