Sentence examples for gain its force from inspiring English sources

For reasons related both to the condensed and summary form of public presentation, and also to the bold conceptual sweep of the theory, the primary argument of the Origin could not gain its force from the data presented by the book itself.

Instead, it presented an argument from unifying simplicity, gaining its force from the ability of Darwin's theory to draw together a wide variety of issues in taxonomy, comparative anatomy, paleontology, biogeography, and embryology under the simple principles worked out in the first four chapters (chps. 11 13).

Moreover, that public mission gained its force from private visions.

In an account that has gained its force from our being deep inside the head of the central character, it feels difficult to move on to accepting the narrative convention that we talk in paragraphs and can recall the paragraphs of those around us.

The claim that Islam isn't a race and so it is entirely rational to hate and fear it gains its moral force from the implicit claim that there is something uniquely horrible about racial hatred.

The landmarks law gains its moral force from the engagement of the public.

The explanation sketch gains its explanatory force from the full explanation and contains the part of the full explanation that the questioner needs to know.

Garifuna people explain that this parental behaviour is essential for proper infant development: a child receives food from its mother (in the form of breast milk) but gains its life force directly from its father, through a spiritual umbilicus.

In the United States, environmental advocacy, as an organized social force, gained its first serious momentum as part of the youth movement of the 1960s.

When ideology gains power, it forces blindness on others.

As the innovations it helped trigger gained force, it looked more and more familiar and old-fashioned, resonant of the past more than the future.