Harrison is a writer of the body, which he celebrates as the ordinary, essential and wondrous instrument by which we measure the world.
For much of the 20th century, many Americans thought economic security for ordinary citizens essential to freedom.
Nevertheless, the Pendleton Act was a major step forward for good government, and over the next quarter-century the majority of ordinary and largely essential civil service positions became disconnected from political machinations, filled instead through a standard set of hiring practices and exams, and protected from arbitrary firing.
Hence, that liberty in the ordinary sense is essential to moral agency does not entail that contra-causal freedom is.
But this blemish is perhaps unavoidable in any plan; and the operation of the Government on the people in their individual capacities, in its ordinary and most essential proceedings, may on the whole designate it in this relation a national Government.
So, in fact, abortion is an essential, ordinary part of women's reproductive health care needs".
In addition to these sorts of claims about the essential properties of ordinary individuals, claims about the essential properties of natural kinds have figured prominently in the literature, since Kripke (1972/1980) and Putnam (1975) made essentialist claims concerning, for example, cats and water.
The grey-coloured façade of the Great Southern Hotel seemed to consist only of the bare essentials, with ordinary designs like strong horizontal lines with angular arches and simple cornices.
The restrictions cover many ordinary items not considered essential to human life.
To what extent is faith an attitude that is essential to ordinary human lives, and why? 290-2 Graduate Seminar: Explaining Consciousness.
I've always thought of Melville's rhetoric as a bulwark against madness and suicide, a scrim through which he could face writing down thoughts and events that he considered sinful horrors and the essential and ordinary truth of life, as well as a mask behind which he could appear to the world as its bearer.
