Sentence examples for practical engagements from inspiring English sources

Recalling the movement now, what is striking is the importance activists attached to practical engagements in technology development as part of their politics.

All of these developments were fueled by and fostered intense intellectual adventures, some of which were also fertilized by practical engagements of various kinds.

Like science and ethics, art breaks with the immediacy of our everyday practical engagements that dominates the more common forms of reflection (GW 11: 214, 214).

This paper is about how rural landscape is experienced according to combinations of practical engagements with land and the ways meaning is made in relation to it.

Yet, as Heidegger argues in Being and Time (1927), taking this modern subject/object dichotomy as our point of departure leads us to fundamentally mischaracterize the way we experience the everyday world in which we are usually unreflectively immersed, the world of our practical engagements.

These interventions involve concrete, practical engagements with the city's populations, but also imaginations and desires, as they intersect with residents' expectations of development.

Staff practices and reasoning in relation to risk emerged through their practical engagement in the everyday work of the wards, but were also shaped by social imperatives.

Yet the invitation to talk about the most dramatic chapter in his life proved a pathway to practical engagement.

With the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) reporting in 2012 that the number of students opting for modern languages degrees has fallen by 9% over the past decade it's clear that language learning needs to be less about grammar textbooks and more about practical engagement.

This all changes, however, when our practical engagement with the world of our concerns breaks down.

The lived body is understood in terms of its practical engagement with the world.