Sentence examples for fails to signify from inspiring English sources

Is not this pragmatic understanding of moral knowledge, for all its virtues, an impostor that really fails to signify something that has the transcendent moral authority that we intuitively associate with genuine moral truth?

The trope's oversaturation has reduced its value as an exploration of American morality, ideals, and faith to the point where it withholds catharsis and fails to signify anything at all.

Here Aristotle seems to be suggesting that some relative terms fail to signify genuine relations.

Lacking this, as Helm claims about torture, one's writhing and screaming fail to signify that one is suffering pain (2002, p. 24).

The second degree of certainty associated with evident propositions is exemplified by a proposition that not only appears certain and inclines the judgment to assent, but is also a proposition that cannot fail to signify correctly.

Often it simply does not signify at all, or fails to appear to the heterosexual majority as anything other than two people of the same sex living together.

In order for a proposition to be true, all of what it signifies to be the case must in fact be the case; if any of what it signifies to be the case fails to be the case, the proposition is false.

Assuming that Spinoza would not accept these possibilities, the theory of "motion and rest" as signifying spatial regions of power distinguished of power fails to account for signal characteristics of body.

Overall, it fails to ignite any real sense of excitement or momentum overall - it signifies mild variation but little progression.

Importantly, blocking hemocyte apoptosis in pvr mutants rescues hemocyte numbers in the embryo [ 20], but fails to restore developmental dispersal fully [ 19,20], while misexpression of Pvf2 can re-route hemocytes [ 5,18], signifying Pvr promotes more than simply hemocyte survival.

In leaving Keidanren, the business federation, he accused it of furthering Japan's "Galapagosization" — a neologism signifying Japan's growing tendency to turn inward, relying on a shrinking home market as it fails to compete globally.