Sentence examples for our present states from inspiring English sources

While there is no future-directed counterpart of memory, we can anticipate future happenings (more or less accurately, more or less eagerly), and experience future-directed emotions: fear, dread, hope – and these too can exert a powerful influence of our present states of consciousness.

But our present state of terrorism does have a religious undertone to it.

In our present state of wanton dissolution even this once-sacred standard is slipping.

"We will remain in our present state for the time being," said Mary Currie, a spokeswoman for the Golden Gate Bridge authority.

On this score we are far more unfortunate than shit; our frenzy to persist in our present state — that's the unconscionable torture.

But before I do that, it might be useful to figure out how we arrived at our present state of nutritional confusion and anxiety.

It's a sad day when you can say that Tammany Hall was more committed to schools and children than our present state, local and federal governments.

So Apple bears some responsibility for our present state of constant distraction and confused excitability in which everything is sensational but nothing really matters.

I cannot say that I have much sympathy for those who seek to justify our present state of affairs by a pastoral apologia.

In the last section possible noise generating mechanisms are pointed out with regard to their importance as indicated by our present state of knowledge.

Our present state would be less perilous if we had spent less on trying to purge developed nations of disease and more on vigorously promoting public health programs throughout the rest of the world.