Sentence examples for maintaining the existence from inspiring English sources

In fact, Durkheim did not make an idol of sociology as did the positivists schooled by Comte, nor was he a "functionalist" who explained every social phenomenon by its usefulness in maintaining the existence and equilibrium of a social organism.

As cannier Israeli politicians (Ehud Olmert among them) have long warned, maintaining the existence of Israel as a Jewish state fundamentally requires perpetuating at least the idea of a Palestinian state, even if only as a deferred fiction kept alive through endless negotiations.

For the Vaibhāṣikas the justification for maintaining the existence of dharmas in all three temporal dimensions is provided by their causal theory of cognition: since cognitive awareness cannot arise in the absence of an objective support, the cognition must be causally related to the object.

This is supported by the ideas that the host spends a lot of energy maintaining the existence of many plasmids and that most plasmids that we examined could not be removed from bacteria.

False affirmative sentences about a remote matter maintain the existence of compounds which are necessarily non-existent; they are called impossible.

"This is why we must maintain the existence of the nation, because our spirits will have nowhere else to go," he told me.

I don't think the most liberal person in the world can deny that, unless he wants to maintain the existence of a parallel universe, with spacemen and ray guns.

If idealism in this sense is to be viewed as a kind of antirealism, the realism it opposes must be one which maintains the existence of material things independently of their being perceived or otherwise related to any mind, finite or otherwise.

To determine the minimizer of the eigenvalue will be helpful in optimizing resources and to maintain the existence of species.

True affirmative sentences about a natural matter maintain the existence of compounds which cannot be otherwise; these sentences as well as the compounds are called necessary.

Modifications of forestry regimes in wet eucalypt forests could help to maintain the existence of these biodiverse multi-cohort forests in the landscape.