Sentence examples for ordering principles from inspiring English sources

Each has its season, its fate, its place in a cosmos whose ordering principles are at once manifest and manifestly unknowable.

Our seven-day week is a straight inheritance from very ancient Babylonian and Jewish traditions that took the seven planets as one of the ordering principles of humanity and divinity.

In his introduction, Frye explains that his initial intention to examine the poetry of Edmund Spenser had given way in the process to a broader survey of the ordering principles of literary theory.

Our theoretical assumptions started from the ideal types of ordering principles [22] that we have rephrased models of governance.

Since all empirical knowledge presupposes these ordering principles, they can never conflict with experience and are, in this sense, necessarily true.

Amongst all of the historical writing genres, time and causation are two ordering principles that enable authors to make statements and arguments about the past (Coffin2006); indeed these two principles are intertwined in all historical works (Rogers2011).

And Mr. Hall often gives graceful, musical life to the play's supernal ordering principle.

The line, as a concept and as an ordering principle, maintains several redeeming qualities.

Ironic references to heroism and the hero suggest that Gobo might be some kind of ordering principle, perhaps based on antique notions of virtue.

The ordering principle of "Contra Pose," choreographed in 1990 to music by C. P. E. Bach, are limbs that cross like latticework and open in airy apposition.

I see why lots of people turn to religion — fear of death, ordering principle in a mysterious universe, refuge from pain, even revelation.