Sentence examples for in a certain sort from inspiring English sources

It's just a way of bringing in a certain sort of client".

"Ever since I was young," said Ms. Snyder, a leading figure in American art, "I always pictured living in a certain sort of house, one with staircases and two floors and lots of rooms.

Ford's words of so-called wisdom appealed to a certain sort of parent, in a certain sort of economic climate: in the recession-hit world of today, there are fewer such parents around, and economic circumstances favour a more relaxed, instinctive, pleasurable approach to childrearing – as Nick Clegg and his wife, and hopefully many others, are realising.

Traditionally, players would return towards the end of their careers, when the main European stage started viewing them as surplus to requirements and a final stint – usually at a club with which there was an emotional attachment – was a chance to bask in a certain sort of glory.

To be happy, it seems, is just to be in a certain sort of psychological state or condition.

According to motive-based accounts of evil character, to be an evil person is to be motivated in a certain sort of way.

Fonseca is convinced of the reality of haecceities because he accepts the view that common natures have in themselves a certain sort of unity prior to instantiation, although — more like Aquinas than Scotus — he does not believe the nature as such to have any sort of real existence other than as instantiated.

In this broad sense, impartiality is probably best characterized in a negative rather than positive manner: an impartial choice is simply one in which a certain sort of consideration (i.e. some property of the individuals being chosen between) has no influence.

As standardly conceived, transcendental arguments are taken to be distinctive in involving a certain sort of claim, namely that X is a necessary condition for the possibility of Y where then, given that Y is the case, it logically follows that X must be the case too.

For in both cases agent-relativity is characterized in terms of a certain sort of back-reference to the person for whom the consideration is a reason while agent-neutrality is in both cases characterized in terms of the absence of such back-reference.

He hopes that people will see it the first time just to get the plot out of the way, and then, whenever they feel in need of a certain sort of company, watch it again.