Herzen's eight-year experience with injustice and the acquaintance it afforded with the workings of Russian government gave firmer contours to his radicalism.
When guests came to visit from out of town, I sometimes brought them to the observation deck on the top of World Trade Tower No. 2, not for the view of the city (the Empire State's was better) but for the broad prospect of geography it afforded, with the islands to the south, the distant fragment of ocean, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and the green expanse of New Jersey almost at our feet.
The up-and-comers like it because it affords competitors with no chance of winning medals their moment in the spotlight in a semifinal mixed in with the evening's highly charged finals.
And if one of the great uses of literature is the opportunity it affords for empathy with those unlike us, these young men are never encouraged to understand a poem in any way other than what it might mean to a more or less wealthy straight white man.
Hume seems to think that the utility of some art is the pleasure it affords (e.g., with poetry), as if he advocates an early art-for-art's-sake position.
C. Emily Feistritzer, the program's director, says that the main reason most people (including scientists with advanced degrees) go into teaching as a second career is because it affords them more time with their family or to otherwise pursue their other interests.
But to our knowledge its application to formal epistemology is new, and it affords a notion of fruitfulness with attractive features: (i) It delivers many seemingly nonnegotiable desiderata.
Conversely; for a small step size, it affords better exploitation and accuracy with slower convergence.
It affords aldehydes in higher yields with better regioselectivity on linear products than those of other two reference catalysts reduced by ethylene glycol and hydrazine hydrate.
Among other things, this law means you needn't be a beggar just because you're sick, and so it affords greater dignity to people with illness.
