Sentence examples for means of negating from inspiring English sources

If he had, instead, introduced a special connective ⇒, with p ⇒ q meaning that p would be a prima facie reason for q, then undercutting defeaters could be represented by means of negating this conditional.

Sympathy is an avoidance tactic, a means of negating actually dealing with a situation in favour of giving it an "aww" or a "bless".

Both colonies sought to stack their teams with players who either had borderline and sometimes flagrantly illegal bowling actions to use physical intimidation as a means of negating opposition batsmen.

It also gave the executive branch – which is generally much less accountable to public pressure than the Congress – a means of negating and pre-empting important legislation by our elected representatives.

Given this proposed contribution of TNR hairpins to the expansion mechanism, disruption of such structures via strand invasion offers a potential means to negate the disease-initiating expansion.

Cooper argued that referendums are designed to force politicians to fulfil the will of the people, and that if ordinary individuals cannot then seek legal redress, that gives those same politicians and officials a means to negate the vote.

It's a conservative approach, meant to negate the possibility of costly turnovers in the neutral zone the middle section of the ice.

It's a conservative approach, meant to negate the possibility of costly turnovers in the neutral zone — the middle section of the ice.

In this context, we propose a new method to characterise the electronic properties of metallic nanotubes using microwaves as a means of exciting currents, thus negating the requirement for electrical contacts.

It is important to note that these results by no means negate the role of affect as a fast and associative response heuristic that guides information processing and risk judgments, as suggested by Zajonc (1980) and Slovic et al. (2004).

("I must not think that, just as my conceptions of rest and darkness are arrived at by negating movement and light, so my perception of the infinite is arrived at not by means of a true idea but by merely negating the finite," Third Meditation, p. 94).