Sentence examples for distinguished duties from inspiring English sources

Reverses in the direction of the growth rate correlated transcriptional changes and the distinguished duties of the three clusters indicated how transcriptome homeostasis is maintained to balance the total expression cost for sustaining life in new habitats.

Rawls distinguishes duties and norms of conduct governing the relationship of "well-ordered peoples" (generally, liberal democracies) to two types of societies: "outlaw states" that refuse to comply with international law, and the focus of our interest—"burdened societies".

This test distinguishes duty from expediency (V 14, 15).

In articulating sanction utilitarianism, Mill claims that it allows him to distinguish duty and expediency and claim that not all inexpedient acts are wrong; inexpedient acts are only wrong when it is good or optimal to sanction them.

Both Kant and Mill distinguish between duties of perfect obligation and duties of imperfect obligation and regard not harming as the former kind of duty and helping as the latter kind of duty.

Unlike the previous view, which distinguished between duty and supererogation in terms of the overall costs of enforcing duty, this approach is based on a principle of excuse: most human beings, due to their frail moral nature and imperfection are excused from omitting what from an ideal (religious, ethical) point of view is prescribed as a duty.

What distinguishes normal duty from acting beyond the call of duty, however, is not always clear-cut; the boundary between the 2 categories is fuzzy (4 ).

Here we must distinguish a duty that is owed to the authority and a duty that is merely the result of the authoritative command.

He did not distinguish the duty to explain from the desire to persuade.

"We have to distinguish between duty and charity," wrote one commentator on a Web news group, Pantip.com.

McGinnis distinguishes the duty of clarity from the sweepingly deferential "clear-error rule" articulated by Harvard law professor James Bradley Thayer, who argued (in one of the most influential articles in the history of American constitutional law) that judges should only strike down congressional statutes if their unconstitutionality is "so clear that it is not open to rational question".