Sentence examples for ideal statement of from inspiring English sources

Libraries are always paradoxical: they are as personal as the collector, and at the same time are an ideal statement of knowledge that is impersonal, because it is universal, abstract, and so much larger than an individual life.

Godfrey Wilson wrote that "Among the Nyakyusa the ideas of social behaviour are not connected with religion, nonetheless they exist" and, after mentioning the moral virtues of the Nyakyusa, he added that "But the positive, ideal statement of these virtues is not made in religious terms" (Godfrey Wilson in Ottenberg and Ottenberg eds., 1960: 348).

As a member of Labour's National Executive, Wilkinson helped to draft her party's manifesto, although her preference for a list of specific policy proposals was overruled in favour of a lengthy statement of ideals and objectives.

The budget that Orszag and his colleagues drafted was the Platonic ideal of Obamaism, a Presidential statement of principle.

There could be no more paradigmatic statement of the ideals associated with the Age of Reason.

After losing 84 people in the attack, its managers chose the Calatrava design as a statement of loftier ideals.

And why not cap it all with a magnificent new British bill of rights with a statement that not only enshrines the European convention on human rights, but comes complete with a bold statement of British ideals, including free speech and compassion, to enshrine the "best of British" which we hold in common.

These tracts constitute the century's most powerful and influential statement of pacifist ideals.

Ostensibly a defence of Erasmus and his philological approach to the biblical text, this offers an important statement of humanist ideals, highly critical of the artificial linguistic universe generated by scholastic dialectic and insistent on the priority of Greek, "since it is from Greek that the rest of mankind has received every variety of knowledge".

It has continued to serve as the prime statement of the Renaissance ideal of perfect humanity.

Their motto was "the best for the least for the most" — a characteristically pithy statement of a utopian ideal of capitalist mass production.