Sentence examples for insistence on reason from inspiring English sources

One of his first public speeches, the Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum, in Springfield in 1837, declared a radical insistence on "reason" to be the only acceptable form of public discourse; the cure for the prevalence and epidemic of violence in American life would be "hewn from the solid quarry of sober reason": "Passion has helped us, but can do so no more.

It's almost laughable, this insistence on a reason.

"The North's insistence on developing its own booster rockets is one reason that observers tend to see Pyongyang's space program as a cover for a ballistic missile program.

And yet for all his famed reticence, his reasoned insistence on privacy for himself and his wife of 28 years, the actress Sheila Hancock, it must have been at least a little gratifying that the statement he released through his agent made front-page news.

The most promising line of resistance to Dancy's case against psychologism is perhaps one that queries his insistence on the fact that, for a normative reason to be my reason for acting, it must be thought of as strictly identical to my motivating reason.

According to news media accounts at the time, his insistence on those limits during a conference committee was one reason neither bill became law.

'Even if a wife wants to leave her husband - be it for domestic violence, insistence on mutilating daughters or other reasons - there is really nothing she can do.

The best protection against prejudicial assessments is not blindness to diagnosis, but insistence on a high standard of reason-giving in the conduct of assessments.

The most obvious reason is its insistence on an American, or English-language, hegemony -- a kind of literary imperialism, let's say.

Castro's strident insistence on income equality may be the reason that Cubans appear satisfied with their life despite the harsh conditions.

The reason behind the insistence on a complete ban was that the original act had ambiguously worded exemptions for "skill-based" activities -- loopholes that would later prove convenient for sites like DraftKings and FanDuel.