Sentence examples for practice denial from inspiring English sources
We may distinguish four especially important criticisms: denial that the putative conventions prevail in actual practice; denial that convention can determine linguistic meaning; denial that convention is necessary for linguistic meaning; and denial that convention-based accounts employ the proper order of explanation.
They choose instead to either grudgingly accommodate each other, engage in various forms of manipulation or coercion, or simply practice denial or avoidance.
The book also said that when he was a bishop, he often slept on the bare floor so he could practice self-denial and asceticism.
Future virtuous adults must be able not only to practice self-denial but also to see the rational path.
It would recognize that they will not practice self-denial even if it makes them better off in the long run -- that they will accept welfare instead of a job that holds unseen promise.
Waves of immigrant parents worked hard and practiced self-denial so their children could succeed.
Freedom of association and assembly are also guaranteed under the law, although in practice the denial of permits for public assembly has occasionally been used to impede political demonstrations.
This slow transformation of the weather facilitates the age-old practice of denial by which most of us, if not all of us, lull ourselves into a comfortable sleepwalk.
Many critics saw "Gnaw" as a reference to a predominantly female practice of self-denial in pursuit of some physical ideal.
Increasingly, he tended to a more mystic interpretation of Islam, in the Ṣūfī tradition, through study of the Qurʾān the sacred Muslim scripture and the practice of self-denial under the discipline of a religious brotherhood.
