Sentence examples for holds actions from inspiring English sources

Although this appears to be a fundamental moral obligation to maximize welfare a few years later Butler strongly criticized theories on which the overall happiness is what makes an action good or evil and argued that our conscience holds actions to be morally good or bad independent of the expected or actual consequences for happiness ("Dissertation", §5).

But these victories are only holding actions; the afflictions of the spirit Mr. Schwartz deals with are part of the very grain of living.

Many of those who defend abortion rights, or affirmative action, have spent decades of their careers on patched-together holding actions to preserve gains that have come under assault.

But cover albums ("Iconos" contains two new tracks that Mr. Anthony and Mr. Reyes helped write in a melodramatic style similar to the other songs) are often regarded as holding actions, and so it may be here.

Paulus called for a series of holding actions, although the Germans still made local counterattacks.

In the morning, different occupations, unions and community groups will hold actions in their neighborhoods or around their areas of interest.

Thus the treatments are effective holding actions while we await more practical applications of genetic information and (hopefully) the identification of unique bacterial pathogens, the removal of which would (as in peptic ulcer) truly produce cures.

Famine relief is a holding action, not an agricultural strategy".

In a way, Bonnaroo 2012 was a holding action.

Now that the Strokes are a known quantity, "Room on Fire" sounds like a holding action.

This experiment in collective leadership soon became a holding action until the orchestra could find the right music director.