Sentence examples for loose notion from inspiring English sources

But, to "restore trust", a loose notion anyway, one suspects nothing less than a full competition inquiry will do the trick.

The loose notion that there is a fixed forty-eight-hour waiver became so quickly entrenched that there seemed to be more worries about the clock ticking than about the timer on any bomb still out there; Lindsey Graham, on CNN, suggested that it constituted a sort of deadline for starting to treat him as an enemy combatant.

Something may be stirring at this year's festival: cue a gentle mid-sleep dribble, a nightmare-induced groan, a leg shoved out of the heavy duvet, and any other clunky bed-based metaphors created to eke out the loose notion that the sketch comic's dormancy may be done with.

Instead, plausibly, their theory is based on a loose notion of human welfare comprising a plurality of basic goods.

Under the pressure of these moves and countermoves, the Belarus-Russia alliance — once intended to become a single "Union State" bound by loose notions of Slavic brotherhood — has regressed to a customs zone, but even that is now threatened.

Indeed, all the members of this sable republic appear to have very loose notions of meum and tuum, and evince as much dexterity in appropriating the effects of their neighbours as any of the other worthies who have adorned the annals of the New Bailey [Manchester's main prison before Strangeways].

Still, many discussions employ a looser notion of 'morality' that refers simply to certain kinds of socially positive emotion or behavior, such as psychological altruism (defined below).

Fix instead on the strategic effort to show that the practical standpoint encourages some looser notion of possibility than the sort relevant to determinism.

Some looser notion of agential possibility might allow a compatibilist to say that all the possibility that is needed for regulative control is something like epistemic possibility, i.e., "for all I as a practical agent know" possibility.

In his own re-thinking of collective responsibility, Kenneth Shockley (2007) sets out to replace the Kantian notion of moral blameworthiness with a looser notion of "being at fault" that allows us to talk about a particular collective as "deserving of some kind of punishment apart from that meted out to its members for their role in harm" (p. 452).

The important philosophical point, on Bok's approach, is that the demands of the practical standpoint invite a looser notion of possibility than the sort that is at work when formulating precise definitions of determinism, or when attempting to fashion libertarian notions of free will.