Sentence examples for instrumental concerns from inspiring English sources

More important, perhaps, than such instrumental concerns, the arts sustain the inner lives of the British nation's citizens in myriad intangible and unmeasurable ways.

To illustrate this proposition further, socially tied individuals usually have more or less instrumental concerns.

Under some conditions, the cultural face will dominate, while in other contexts, the instrumental concerns prevail.

World government proposals are justified in terms of both intrinsic and instrumental concerns.

Instead, we proceed to the second statement, that the instrumental concerns of complying with social relations can be (partially) substituted.

Second, if such instrumental concerns can somehow be taken care of through alternative ways, employees feel it is less necessary to secure their particularistic ties with the employers.

Tommie Shelby tries to combat the ambivalence of Appiah and Blum through resources found within Martin Delany's Black nationalism, distinguishing classical black nationalism, which rested upon an organic black identity, with pragmatic black nationalism, based on an instrumental concern with combating anti-black racism (2005, 38 52; 2003, 666 668).

Unlike Wolff, however, Anderson makes the more radical claim that (true) egalitarians have, in a way, no non-instrumental concern about distribution at all: they are concerned about distribution only indirectly, their direct concern being that members of the community should stand as equals (compare Scheffler 2003, 22; Anderson 2010).

This deliberation might be merely instrumental, concerned only with settling on means to moral ends, or it might be concerned with settling those ends.

An experimental design protocol has been employed for the optimization of the instrumental settings concerning DHS and TDU extraction and desorption steps.

As in the case of the simple argument, it might be argued that the appearance of an ought here derives from added normative premises, such as instrumental norms concerning the ease of communication, or pragmatic norms regulating speech acts.