Sentence examples for exterior act from inspiring English sources

This is meant to contrast with the corresponding exterior act, that is, the event that P actually executes A. Note that A itself may be in some sense 'interior', e.g., let A = thinking well of my enemy.

It was Ockham's considered view, evidenced in many of his writings, that only the interior act was properly regarded as meritorious or sinful; the corresponding exterior act makes no moral difference.

Then, although A is itself internal inasmuch as thinking takes place in my mind, nevertheless we can distinguish the interior act of willing to think well of my enemy from the exterior act thinking well of my enemy.

Chatton argues against this in many ways, the most effective being theological: for example, Christ always willed to redeem humanity, so if willing were sufficient, then his exterior act of being executed on the cross was unnecessary.

The golden brown exterior acts as a protective shell for the ultra-fluffy, cloud-like interior.

The 12,000-seater Basketball Arena is one of the largest temporary venues ever used for an Olympics, and during the Games its white exterior will act as a canvas for "an artistic and innovative lighting design".

Soon, though, he was up on a ladder, writing his poems in beautiful calligraphy across the exterior walls: an act of self-liberation that turned his banned writing into a startling sight on a street that still looks like the set for an August Wilson play.

All Apollonian Gaskets start the same - with a large exterior circle that acts as the edge of the fractal.

Whereas this harpin was expressed without a signal peptide, the authors ascribed the necrotic phenotype to leakage of intracellularly accumulated HrpZPss from the E. cichoracearum-penetrated plant cells, allowing the protein to access the plant cell exterior where it normally acts, thus activating plant defense mechanisms.

The sound of the buckling of the tymbal plate then resonates in an adjacent hollow chamber in the abdomen, as well as in the exterior air-filled sacs, which act as Helmholtz resonators.

A large property on the Bexhill-on-Sea seafront was used on 12 and 13 May 2009 to act as the exterior for the residence of Madame, where Tommy and Kathy go to apply for a deferral.