Sentence examples for particular conceptions from inspiring English sources

Priorities in law enforcement and particular conceptions of controversial legal issues — affirmative action, severity and leniency in criminal prosecution and sentencing, antitrust policies, civil rights enforcement — have always been part of a president's project for the nation.

This shift of concern from general to particular conceptions of truth was a key feature of Romantic thought, and Ruskin's first major achievement was thus to bring the assumptions of Romanticism to the practice of art criticism.

I meant these hints [themes] to direct but slightly the hearer's fancy on the path which my own fancy had traveled, and to leave more minute and particular conceptions to the will and mood of each.

"In composing Scheherazade," wrote the composer in his memoirs, I meant these hints [themes] to direct but slightly the hearer's fancy on the path which my own fancy had traveled, and to leave more minute and particular conceptions to the will and mood of each.

Particular conceptions of reconciliation vary across a number of dimensions.

Such criticisms, however, are only directed at particular conceptions of analysis.

Surely our concepts of physical reality outstrip any particular conception we have at any given time, and the possibility of mistaken application is built into them.

Thubron's great triumph in that novel was to engineer a particular impression in the reader's mind (a particular conception of reality) and then disturb it actively.

It was, Ferguson contends, because the English settlers brought with them a particular conception of widely distributed property rights and democracy, inherited from John Locke.

Hollywood spent the 80s churning out action films like Rambo and The Terminator, which supported the hawkish aspects of Reaganism and promoted a particular conception of masculinity that still resonates in the blockbusters we see today.

Both contemporary and historical philosophers of education have devoted themselves, at least in part, to defending a particular conception of the aims of education or to criticizing the conceptions of others.