Sentence examples for mere division from inspiring English sources

Second, Kant also complains that empirical psychology cannot separate and recombine the phenomena of inner sense at will; rather, our inner observations can be separated "only by mere division in thought" (4:471).

A "mere theoretical division of loyalties" was not enough to call the validity of the conviction into question, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the majority.

In other words, the embryolike thing had moved beyond mere cell division and graduated to the stage where embryonic stem cells begin to form.

But Justice Scalia said for the 5-to-4 majority in Mickens v. Taylor, No. 00-9285, thet the dual representation was a "mere theoretical division of loyalties" that did not call the conviction or sentence into question.

Darwin's fellow evolutionist Herbert Spencer defined altruism in physical terms – generally as any action that benefited another organism at some cost to the self – but even including mere physical division and loss of matter in very simple organisms.

Psychological studies suggest that the mere fact of division, even when there is no substantive content to it, can be corrosive: in a series of experiments in the 1950s and '60s, groups of similar people arbitrarily divided into subgroups quickly exploded into conflicts of "Lord of the Flies -like intensity.

This third phase leads to a reassessment, and then to a search for ways to divide the enemy and exploit the merest hint of division or ideological argument.

Why, blacks comprised a mere pair of infantry divisions and a single cavalry division and a single air corps division and only thirty-two field artillery battalions and eleven tank destroyer battalions!

The parts involved in this type of divisibility are the accidental parts noted above that result from a certain psychological process, namely, division through mere positing.

Despite the strong presence of two North Vietnamese divisions outside Ban Me Thuot, Phu believed the situation outside the district was only a mere diversion attempt, and the real target would be Pleiku.

The 72 Nationwide League clubs get £25m a year: of this, 75% goes to the first division and a mere 18% to the second.