Sentence examples for fixed facts from inspiring English sources

The future is always a mystery, but the childhood plans of brothers and sisters have a special, poignant power as they retract into the fixed facts of adulthood.

For the fixed fact about her work is that it never changes.

While Lewis does offer a suggestive and persuasive vision for giving a reductive account of chance, it nevertheless remains true that 'no reductionist has in fact ever provided an exact recipe that would show how categorical facts fix the facts about objective chance' (Hall 2004: 111).

He fixed the facts in the novel by having her die for love bearing his child.

Elizabeth Bishop (great nature-noting poet herself) wrote: "Reading Darwin one admires the beautiful solid case being built up of his heroic observations… and then comes a sudden relaxation… and one feels the strangeness of his undertaking, sees the lonely young man, his eyes fixed on facts and minute details, sinking or sliding giddily off into the unknown".

The concept of medicalization is helpful in making clear how this sort of insertion into a medical context is not (or not simply) a response to fixed biological facts, but rather a contingent social and institutional process.

These truths are not fixed by facts that are independent of the practical standpoint, however characterized; rather, they are constituted by what agents would agree to under some specified conditions of choice.

For instance, if one holds fixed the fact that Fred throws wide, then it might seem that Fred's throwing is not a probability-raiser after all.

For instance, if one holds fixed the fact that Bob holds his throw, then it might seem that Pam's throwing becomes a probability-raiser after all.

Holding fixed the fact that the bodyguard poured the lethal antidote into the coffee, we note that the king would not have survived if the assassin had not put the poison in the coffee first.

Whether or not the pendulum's inner fulcrum is held fixed (a fact which will determine whether the relevant model is analytically solvable) has no bearing on the semantics of the elements of the model.