Sentence examples for prior account from inspiring English sources

The moral explanation that it offers assumes no nonmoral prior account of grounds and leaves no residual question about whether legal obligations have moral force.

Thus, rather than treating admirable character traits as more basic than the notions of right and wrong conduct, Kant takes virtues to be explicable only in terms of a prior account of moral or dutiful behavior.

"Companies like to categorize prior accounting assumptions that were overly optimistic as nonrecurring write-offs," he said.

One is very conscious in Venice of all the prior accounts, all the writers who've been there before.

Prior accounting studies on relative performance information (RPI) have mainly considered the effects of RPI on employees' performance.

While the political potential of counter accounts has, to an extent, been examined in prior accounting literature, there is a need to analyse the associated moral dimension.

Often speaking in Yiddish to an interpreter, he said at least 39 times that he did not remember the events preceding the shooting or prior accounts he had given to investigators.

Hours before the visit, Mr. Gonzales had briefed the eight Congressional leaders about the Justice Department's legal protests and, according to prior accounts, discussed emergency legislation to allow the program to go forward without its approval.

Its integrated treatment of group decision making and coordinated updating of group-related intentions fills an important gap in prior accounts of collective intentionality, thus helping to resolve a long-standing debate about the nature of intentions in group activity.

However, prior accounting research examining the association between mentoring and turnover intentions has produced mixed results, which may be due, at least in part, to difficulties in operationalizing the mentoring construct.

The company later said Rand may have inflated reserves and other accrued liabilities in prior accounting periods.