Sentence examples for existence given from inspiring English sources

But its continued existence, given its weird aspects, is its main claim to religion's power.

Medine is aware that the PCLOB's performance reviewing the controversial surveillance activities has implications for his organization's prestige – and even its existence given the surveillance review board's recommendation to replace it.

He described Earth as "a place of extremes" during the first few hundred million years of its 4.5-billion-year existence, given to radical climate fluctuations, from searing heat to immobilizing cold, amid constant meteorite bombardments and catastrophic volcanic eruptions.

From rocks to angels, all creatures are true to the extent that the potencies of their "existence" given by matter are realized through the perfection of their "being" through form.

It acknowledges Kavka's point about the precariousness of any given person's coming into existence: the probability that that identical child will come into existence, given that the agents do anything other than perform the clearly wrong act they in fact perform, is very low.

Their existence gives the lie to the thought that the wild is always something untouched by human hearts and hands.

Her desire for something more, some transcendence out of her ordinary existence, gives "River of Grass" a bittersweet tang.

Still, the panel's existence gave the club a patina of class, distinguishing it from its more popular rival, the Literary Guild.

It electrified young people, because Han's very existence gave them "the right to choose their own idol," as the Shanghai writer Chen Cun put it.

The Goodman is less prominent than the Pace-Wildenstein and Gagosian galleries, but its existence gives the art world rare jolts of self-esteem.

"30/40" "Its existence gives the art world a rare shot of self-esteem," Peter Schjedahl wrote of the Marian Goodman gallery, in 2004.