Sentence examples for does not rest upon from inspiring English sources
Well, we are showing them that government does not rest upon force at all: it rests upon consent.
One could say that national politics does not rest upon local politics, and that no modern British town is a closed society; some of Rowling's characters may seem eccentric for the earnestness with which they regard a local election.
The ethos of the age does not rest upon the ratiocinations of the philosopher, it emerges from the consensus of the plain people, informed and constrained by our evolved intuitions.
Some philosophers take this argument to show that language does not rest upon convention.
There is no method of measuring force that does not rest upon some law of classical mechanics.
But, now, if perception does not rest upon the apprehension (Auffassung) of sensations, how can the difference between perceptions and sensations be accounted for?
Another possibility is that design intuitions do not rest upon inferences at all.
Positivist critiques of natural law theory, when they do not rest upon scepticism about the possibility of moral judgment, a scepticism implicitly disavowed in the above passage, rest on misunderstanding of passages from the works of natural law theorists.
Our opinions in this matter do not rest upon the opinions of others nor upon anything written in any book, instead they rest upon the experience of five dried grams of this psilocybin mushroom; at that level a peculiar phenomenon occurs.
