Sentence examples for imposed on nature from inspiring English sources

The company said the cost its operations had imposed on nature through greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption alone came to €94.4 million.

Crowe's starting point is indigenous architecture, the origins of our cities and towns where the first geometries were imposed on nature.

The order I am able to impose on nature only extends so far, a few hundred feet from the house at best.

A self-taught photographer, Mr. Giacomelli had a poet's eye for the startlingly abstract order man can impose on nature and a poet's understanding of the great disorder that is the human condition.

By projecting causally familiar models — models of governance and control that reflect the gender hierarchy of society with which we are familiar — "we risk imposing on nature the very stories we like to hear,"(Keller 1985, 187).

"Western culture is obsessed with order, smoothness, and symmetry, to the point that we often impose on nature patterns and models derived from classical Greek geometry"(Kenkel and Walker, 1996; p. 77).

We have manmade laws imposed on human nature, and we have human nature.

This description is an admission of our self-acceptance of categories that experts have imposed on the nature of religion.

His almond-shaped blue eyes looked out at the world with wry detachment; they imposed on his passionate nature a mask of cool.

In Beck's description of how risk societies work, the first round of scientific innovation — when science solves the problems imposed on us by nature — is accepted gratefully, even uncritically.

We need to paint a picture of what life could be like inside those scientific red lines, life within the limits imposed on us by nature.