Sentence examples for making a descriptive from inspiring English sources

It is a curious but telling aspect of Havel's well-known saying, from its inspirations in Jan Hus ('Truth prevails'), that it was seldom clear whether the proper verb modality here was the indicative or imperative: 'prevails' or 'must prevail.' While the moral tenor seems rather obvious, it is formally ambiguous whether Havel is making a descriptive or normative claim.

Waldron takes Locke to be making a descriptive statement, not a normative one, about the condition that happens to have initially existed.

Rainer focuses on the fact that different data setups must be constructed since the purpose of making a homogeneous input output table differs from the objective of making a descriptive make-use system in terms of National Accounts.

Sex assignment (calling someone female or male) is normative (Butler 1993, 1).[6] When the doctor calls a newly born infant a girl or a boy, s/he is not making a descriptive claim, but a normative one.

When we state "'Green' means green" we may appear to be making a descriptive statement whereas, in fact, we are prescribing how 'green' ought to be used (Gauker 2007, 2011, Lance & O'Leary Hawthorne 1997, Peregrin 2012: 96, Gibbard 2012).

Objectives: The goal was to make a descriptive analysis about the evolution of patient submitted in the ICU for postoperative control following a surgical resection of intracranial tumors.

To make a descriptive analysis of the frequency and the type of thorax and lung injuries among the casualties of the two devastating earthquakes that occurred in Turkey in 1999.

The aim of this work was to make a descriptive study about the ICU patients and care givers satisfaction at a general hospital.

We made a descriptive study and a statistical study, univariable and multivariable, using Student's t test and the chi-quadrate.

We made a descriptive analysis of prospective data from the HIV unit of a 638-bed hospital (Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain).

It is difficult to make a descriptive but general statement under which conditions a combinatorial reaction network model is exactly reducible or not.