Sentence examples for idea by which from inspiring English sources
It also promoted an idea by which poor countries would leave their oil resources in the ground, in exchange for compensation from rich countries.
The general idea by which the specific topoi can be characterized is rather this: Every specific topos gives us a general (but not formal) description of things that are supposed to be good, noble, just, etc.
He has been treating freedom "only as a transcendental idea" by which reason is led to think of its ability to begin a series of events in the sensible world.
On the other hand, only passive affects are passions: "an affect that is called a Passion [pathema] of the Mind is a confused idea by which the Mind affirms of its Body, or some part of it, a greater or lesser power of existing [existendi vis] than before, which, when it is given determines the Mind to think of this rather than that" (III Gen. Def. of the Affects).
Under all the sorrow at misjudged yearnings, it is the age-old racist idea, the idea by which, sooner or later, all empires are rationalized.
And yet hybrid leaders tend to build their lives around a few core convictions since they have little but their ideas by which to define themselves.
He famously proceeds from the claim that the traditional and received "ideas by which we try to understand the universe" are contradictory (11).
The first, 'Appearance', is brief, and its aim destructive, arguing that 'the ideas by which we try to understand the universe' all bring us ultimately to contradictions when we try to think out their implications.
Mr. Bradbury referred to himself as an "idea writer," by which he meant something quite different from erudite or scholarly.
The quality of restraint, along with dignity and loyalty, is part of the idea of "greatness" by which Mr Stevens has always lived.
This was an arduous, treadmill idea of happiness by which human beings are eternally condemned to anticipate the loss of present pleasures and to live in a perpetual state of craving.
