Sentence examples for is only insofar from inspiring English sources

His argument is that while judges may sometimes appear to have power over parliament, this is only insofar as it has been granted by parliament.

And the one is a prerequisite for the other, because it is only insofar as the value of ELSA's heritage is duly acknowledged, that the 'added value' of RRI can be articulated with sufficient precision.

In the Religion, Cohen claims that systematic philosophical ethics is concerned with individuals only insofar as they are members of pluralities or humanity as a whole that is, only insofar as they are bound by ethical laws.

Similarly, but from a very different theoretical background, Michel Foucault's highly influential analysis presupposes that power is a kind of power-over; and he puts it, "if we speak of the structures or the mechanisms of power, it is only insofar as we suppose that certain persons exercise power over others" (1983, 217).

In the same way, we can consistently say that the same nature as such is neither in the singulars nor in the mind, but of course it is only insofar as it is in the mind that it can be recognizably the same, on account of the mind's abstraction.

To the extent that the ESPYs pre-show felt different from the programming that would ordinarily have filled this space, it was only insofar as the Pardon the Interruption team was pretending to disagree about LeBron James out of doors, in Los Angeles. .

Rule 5, which is actually Rule 1, which is actually the only rule there is: I exist only insofar as I violate you.

Another important argument to account for the convertibility of being and good is found in Aquinas, who connects the actuality of being with the proper character of the good as that which is desirable – since a thing is desirable only insofar as it is perfect, and is only perfect insofar as it is in act, the goodness of a thing depends on the actuality of its being.

For Rousseau, government is only legitimate insofar as it is subordinated to popular sovereignty or, in other words, follows the general will of the people.

-          prohibition of hate speeches – the notion of hate speech in the interpretation of courts and the Constitutional Court in Hungary is only restricted insofar as criminal sanctions are warranted by the clear and present danger of physical harm.

Some scholars take a stringent libertarian, even anarchist, position on such matters: Political authority is only legitimate insofar as it is grounded in the express consent of those affected by its exercise.