Sentence examples for distinctive by virtue from inspiring English sources

Female Talamanca Hummingbird also is distinctive, by virtue of its large size and long bill.

Whatever its source, the doctrine of the Logos in John is distinctive by virtue of the fact that it identifies the Logos with a specific historical person.

It is a beautiful but relatively infrequently encountered bird; the male is marked by its distinctive rufous face, gray breast and buff-colored belly, while the female is equally distinctive by virtue of her white postocular streak, brown head and breast, and dark scaling over the flanks and belly.

Many modern philosophers have at this point felt the need to invoke imagination, either as a distinct mental "faculty" (Kant) or as a distinctive mental operation by virtue of which thought and experience may be united.

Tumors of ceruminous gland origin appear to have a distinctive clinical behavior by virtue of their unique anatomical location in the external auditory canal.

Yet the Maysleses' vision of the unfolding events is distinctive — and, for that matter, historic — by virtue of their distinctive directorial procedure.

Lewis (1946, Ch. 14) contrasted aesthetic value with cognitive and moral value, not by virtue of distinctive characters of their felt goods, but chiefly by distinctive attitudes to experience.

How could such a percept then acquire the properties distinctive of phenomenal consciousness merely by virtue of me coming to believe (in non-inferential fashion) that I am undergoing an experience of red?

By virtue of their distinctive growth pattern and biology, lobular carcinomas often fail to form distinct masses that can easily be diagnosed by palpation or mammography.

This could be by virtue of the distinctive transcriptomes of the male gametophyte and sperm cells [ 34] and down-regulation of a large number of genes that might not be required for the development of the gametophyte [ 39].

For this reason, extreme haecceitism is typically (albeit confusingly) classified as a version of "anti-essentialism", by virtue of denying that individuals have distinctive essences apart from their respective haecceities.