Sentence examples for possibility to defend from inspiring English sources

Mr Donoghue appeals to that possibility to defend those prose writings notably "The Idea of a Christian Society"—where Eliot is so obviously gesturing towards what cannot be significantly imagined that some have charged him with pure irrelevance.

A first possibility to defend the thesis that Water is non-transmissive is to argue that Water instantiates the disjunctive template (considered in Sect. 3.2) (cf. Wright 2000, 2003 and 2011).

Along with all employees, Phil attended a training course to prepare him for the possibility of having to defend his work in court.

Since the case emerged, however, the widespread documentation and discussion it provoked has left those alert to such possibilities far better prepared to defend against them in future.

This work has long been the source of the interpretation that al-Ghazālī himself was a committed occasionalist, but recent interpretations have challenged this view, arguing that al-Ghazālī's goal simply is to defend the possibility of miracles against the claims of the falâsifa, and that he leaves open the possibility of some kind of genuine causality in creatures (Griffel 2007).

It is to defend the possibility of seriousness against the glibness and superficiality of the age - and also, of course, against other magazines.

How, I ask, does Ms Teather feel about the hypothetical possibility that she'll have to defend academies in the Commons, should Mr Gove be indisposed?

But he added that Israel could be the first target of a nuclear Iran, and that Israel "should prepare for the possibility that it will have to defend itself by its own means".

There are two ways to go if one wishes to defend the possibility of moral knowledge against the argument from moral objectivism.

In order to defend the possibility of time travel in the face of this argument we need to show that time travel is not a sure route to doing the impossible.

More recent criticisms have come from Jerry Fodor, amongst others, whose opposition to holism (not only in Davidson, but in Quine, Dennett and elsewhere) is largely motivated by a desire to defend the possibility of a certain scientific approach to the mind (see especially, Fodor and Lepore 1992).