Sentence examples for of a thoroughgoing from inspiring English sources
Although Mr. Arafat's latest pledges of a thoroughgoing crackdown on terror seem familiar and unconvincing to most Israelis, they ought to be tested over the next few days.
They see the lack of a thoroughgoing "reorganization of the financial system" as the "most disappointing" feature of the new dispensation.
These are never mere sight gags, though, but part of a thoroughgoing mise-en-scène that melts boundaries between the real and representational.
Having given up on the purity of a thoroughgoing anti-absolutism, we would now be in the business of trying to figure out what absolute moral facts there are.
Joseph Hall's "Another World, Yet the Same," from 1605, was "an elaborate parody of the discovery narrative," a very early example of a "thoroughgoing and scornful attack on the travel vogue".
Disseminators of the philosophical ideas of the time, such as Denis Diderot, Baron d'Holbach, and their friends, were protagonists of a thoroughgoing Materialism and regarded Voltaire's Deism as too timid.
"This was the point at which we should have insisted on a thoroughgoing exploration of Soviet intentions with regard to the future of the remainder of Europe," he cabled.
The author does not overlook the irony of publishing this work as a book that costs $34.95, but I tend to agree that the book is still the best medium for a "thoroughgoing treatment of an issue in a single sustained piece of writing".
There is not, of course, a thoroughgoing parallel between sexual orientation and race: when you show up for an interview, it is apparent that you are an African-American.
The more radical Pyrrhonian Skeptics, who doubted the truth of all claims, quickly ran afoul of the following objection, which has been given in various forms throughout the history of philosophy: a thoroughgoing skeptic, it seems, cannot live his or her skepticism.
That's not likely to happen any time soon, but what could happen, and what has been so far unsuccessfully requested of Congress, is a thoroughgoing investigation of this para-legal apparatus with a view to exposing its dangers and figuring out the best way of eliminating its abuses.
