Sentence examples for notion of property from inspiring English sources

After all, the purpose of copyright is to 'promote the progress of science,' not to protect some Lockean notion of property".

The abolition of feudalism was crucial to the evolution of a modern, contractual notion of property and to the development of an unimpeded market in land.

A notion of property in land emerged at the end of the 12th century in England from a mass of partly discretionary, partly customary, feudal rights and obligations.

In England a notion of property in land emerged at the end of the 12th century from a mass of partly discretionary, partly customary, feudal rights and obligations.

By extension she challenges the racially charged notion of property that runs through Mitchell's novel, casting its shadow over both the architecture and the people.

Second, the welfare role of government is greater in a society marked by a highly privatised notion of property and small families.

For this story, set in the mahogany library of the Voysey family's luxurious country house, Granville-Barker turns the notion of property-as-theft into what the Edwardians would have called a ripping yarn.

The main tool is the notion of intersection local time, which provides a measure on the set of double points, and hence a notion of properties of almost all double points.

It is a tricky question, because it defies our traditional notions of property and justice.

It's all tied up in notions of property ownership, with sexual jealousy a secondary factor".

Effective political power was monopolized by interests committed to the preservation of 19th-century notions of property and social conformity.