Sentence examples for distinct desires from inspiring English sources

Vasubandhu responds that if that is the case, then things are not caused by a unitary God, but rather each thing is caused by one of God's countless, distinct desires.

"Despite the substandard performance of the laboratory, there was a distinct desire not to revoke the accreditation of the laboratory prior to the Sochi Olympics," last year's WADA report said.

Baldwin seems especially bullish about the widget, which he says shows a "distinct desire for publishers to connect directly to consumers".

They are each distinct: desire, for instance, is directed at the future, whereas love is a passion involving a "consent by which we consider ourselves from the present on as joined with which we love, in the sense that we imagine a whole of which we think of ourselves only as one part and the loved thing as another" (AT XI 387, modified from CSM I 356).

A key motivation for neo-sentimentalism is that making a judgment about desirability or shamefulness is distinct from desiring or being ashamed.

There are also several distinct needs and desires being expressed by their clients.

Germany I think it's unfortunate that we see in a number of states – and this is particularly well represented in western Europe – [that] the priorities of governments seem to be very distinct from the desires of the public.

And which are absolutely distinct from "vain desires" — aka passing fancies or things we wish for "in an idle way".

Another way to model commitment is to take it that our intentions operate at a level distinct from our desires, structuring what we are willing to reconsider at any point in our deliberations (e.g. Bratman 1999).

David Velleman (1996), for example, argues that agency is characterized by a particular higher-order inclination to 'behave in, and out of, a knowledge of what you're doing.' Although this is a kind of desire, it is distinct from the contingent desires that might be satisfied by particular actions and which internalists usually identify as the source of our reasons.

But she concedes that this UConn team has forged its own distinct grandeur with desire and Swiss-watch fluidity.