Sentence examples for proximate ones from inspiring English sources

'Dog' means what it does because the signifier (the material sound) and the signified (the intended meaning) differs from all others, and especially the proximate ones: 'log', 'fog', 'god', and so on; 'wolf', 'cat', and so on.

My motives at the time would not be the ultimate source of my willings, only the most proximate ones.

Religion is based on faith, whereas science is grounded in doubt; and although both religion and science do deal with questions of origin, the province of religion is ultimate cause, whereas the causes investigated by science are proximate ones.

Two remote facilities were replaced with proximate ones to stay within the bounds of the study schedule and budget.

Using "Nobelist Wiesel" and "Certain weasel" to produce two answers proximate to one another on the grid ("ELIE" and "STOAT"), for example, and interlocking "SITH" ("Foes of the Jedi) with "STINT" ("Is miserly").

Notably, the two concepts of evidence and literature are not semantically similar i.e. they are not proximate to one another.

To repeat: in the preceding sentence "intended" is used in the broad sense; Aquinas sometimes employs it this way (e.g. ST II-II q. 64 a. 7), though in his official synthesis the word is used in the narrower sense to signify the (further) intention with which the act's object was chosen – object being the most proximate of one's (broad sense) intentions.

We found somewhat weaker correlations across the three pollutants than have been shown in prior European studies [ 1], potentially because of our focus within urban neighborhoods relatively proximate to one another, while most prior intra-urban studies have actually examined metropolitan regions.

It remains unclear exactly why such replication is not possible, but functional constraints on receptor use in arthropods versus mammals provides one proximate explanation (van den Heuvel et al. 1999).

For example, smog or acid rain causing pollutants disproportionately impact geographically proximate populations; thus one can think of the game as playing out on some approximation of a spatial lattice.

The current study was designed to examine possible proximate mediators of one of the most thoroughly studied preferences shifts: women's mid-cycle preference for the scent of male symmetry.