Sentence examples for idea of property from inspiring English sources

One difference may be the idea of property.

The paper made the idea of property rights fundamental to understanding the role of regulation in the economy.

But the idea of property had excited her, and in the end, as a kind of compensation, I bought her council-estate house for her.

She received the Faculty Scholarship Award at Duke in 2003 for her book, The Idea of Property: its Meaning and Power (Oxford University Press, U.K.).

The English have a private, market-based idea of property, in contrast to the familial property forms of our continental neighbours.

The Roman idea of property was revived on the Continent as an intellectual matter before it came to have much practical force.

The film spends so much time detailing its thesis that the roots of modern poverty are 500 years deep — going back to the explorers and conquistadors who first supplanted indigenous economic systems with Western ideas of property ownership — that it only briefly mentions what might be done about the problem.

From 1975 to 1981 Welsh edited "Nineteenth-Century Fiction," the journal devoted to British and American fiction; "The Hero of the Waverley Novels" (1963, 1968, and 1992 with additional essays on Sir Walter Scott), which relates Scott's achievement to 18th- and 19th-century ideas of property; and "Thackeray: A Collection of Critical Essays" (1968), a volume in the "Twentieth-Century Views" series.

There is a striking contrast between the oligopoly of those sheep traders who profit from enclosures in England and the Utopians' belief that they are the cultivators (agricolae) of their land rather than proprietors (domini); it echoes the scholastic distinction between usus, simple use, and dominium, the right of disposal which underlies European ideas of property.

Although some examples aren't as stark or depressing, the general idea of plummeting property values and vacant properties infecting a neighborhood and its surrounding areas still stands.

These ideas are distinguished from ideas of properties that are peculiar to particular dogs, such as the property of being owned by Smith or the property of weighing 20 pounds.