Sentence examples for reference to matters from inspiring English sources

It is a great job, it is great work and it makes the world safer," he said, in an apparent reference to matters including Libya's decision to relinquish its weapons of mass destruction programme in return for international diplomatic rehabilitation.

She also indirectly discriminated against homosexual couples on the grounds of their sexual orientation by applying a policy which put them at a disadvantage as compared with heterosexual couples and she could not reasonably justify by reference to matters other than their sexual orientation.

Lisa Bloom wrote an excellent piece for HuffPost on this topic, in which she suggests that we adults not make constant reference to matters of appearance.

According to TAF, customary justice mechanisms are not standardized and rely more on personalities than procedure, which means they can "have serious flaws in the administration of justice, with particular reference to matters involving domestic violence and violence against women".

Here we discuss the clinical, histopathological, and immunohistochemical findings in reference to matters that emerged from our research.

If some definitions include a reference to matter, then the link between essence and form would seem to be weakened.

The reference to matter in a definition will thus always be to a certain kind of matter, and hence to a predicate, rather than a subject.

Thus there may after all be reasons for thinking that reference to matter will have to intrude into at least some definitions.

Since specific natures of incorporeal beings do not include any reference to matter, only a unique principle of individuation (ratio suppositalis) can flow from such species.

And yet, in virtue of the possibility of seemingly limitless distinct references to matter (or 'drawings of boundaries'), the rationalisation involves embracing the daunting excesses of a mereology with a 'principle of unrestricted composition'.

The way to bring out the difference is to note that part of the point of trying to establish laws is to find out how to infer from particular matters of fact to other particular matters of fact, how to explain particular matters of fact by reference to other matters of fact, and how to bring about or prevent particular states of affairs.