Sentence examples for reason invoked from inspiring English sources

The urgent need to disarm Saddam Hussein was the primary reason invoked for going to war in March rather than waiting to see if weapons inspectors could bring Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs under control.

Then if we use the usual truth conditions for selection functions, the truth conditions determined via selection functions derived from a system of spheres satisfying the Limit Assumption coincide with the truth conditions in terms of system of spheres (this is the reason invoked in Cross and Nute 2001 for classifying Lewis' theory of conditionals as a minimal change theory).

The reason invoked is that doping with La ions raised the Fermi level of Cr ions and stabilizes its oxidation state of Cr3+ which is needed for the red shift of the band gap to extend light absorption into the visible region.

Indeed, a reason invoked by plant molecular biologists to avoid experiments in natural environments despite the lab field gap is the perceived low reproducibility of results that would be generated under unpredictable fluctuating conditions (Izawa, 2015) and the difficulty to detect transcriptional signals of interest (Travers et al., 2007).

For this reason, invoking the so-called nuclear option is not something McConnell takes lightly.

The reasons invoked were the limited availability of independent data, the need to remove contributions from other sources than the core prior to comparing measured data with candidate models, and the absence of measurements during the time interval of the secular variation candidates.

48 One of the main reasons invoked to justify these early retirement programs is that shortage in labor demand and its consequences for unemployment would be better absorbed by reducing the number of older workers in the labor market.

We analysed meat inspection data for cattle, pigs and small ruminants slaughtered between 2007 and 2012 (including emergency slaughters of sick/injured animals); investigating patterns in the number of animals slaughtered and condemned; the reasons invoked for whole carcass condemnations; reporting biases and regional effects.

Instead, George rests his ethics on a foundation of "practical reason": "invoking no authority beyond the authority of reason itself," as he put it in one essay.

In "7 Reasons Men Should Not Be Pastors," women from the Sojourners staff listed out reasons why they thought men were unfit to serve as ministers, a parody of the reasons often invoked to disqualify women from positions of power. .

But no such prosaic reasons were invoked by Mr. Saint Laurent to explain his retirement.