Sentence examples for reflexive power from inspiring English sources

This position leads to the obvious problem that the sense of touch seems to be a reflexive power, as it is capable of sensing the state of its own organ.

More significantly, environmentalists were slowly, tentatively abandoning their reflexive opposition to nuclear power because of the bigger problem of climate change.

But his reflexive hostility to executive power adds nothing to the current debate, and his rendering of presidential history is incomplete at best and often tendentious.

This story is distasteful from a number of obvious standpoints: the student's refusal to acknowledge wrongdoing, the father's blind defense of his daughter's "innocence" and the reflexive effort to abuse power and privilege to avoid fair consequences.

The most prevalent ideology of the era seems to be not liberalism nor conservatism so much as anti-incumbency, a reflexive distrust of whoever has power and a constant rallying cry for systemic reform.

Typically, Germany tries to stay out of wars, or at least their shooting parts, because of two other pillars of post-war German identity: a pacifism that distrusts any expression of German military power and a reflexive ducking instinct in great-power diplomacy.

The culture of DC think tanks, "international relations" professionals, and foreign policy commenters breeds allegiance to these American prerogatives and US power centers - incentivizes reflexive defenses of US government actions - because, as Gelb says, that is the only way to advance one's careerist goals as a "national security professional".

Get conscious to the automatic reflexive behavior that diminishes your power and influence.

In this way, students might be encouraged to engage in critical self-reflexive work as they interrogate power relations within the context of the curricula and the school.

It's hard not to see the Indian State as an essentially upper-caste Hindu State (regardless of which party is in power) which harbours a reflexive hostility towards the 'other'other

It was a reflexive siding with government authority and power, the very opposite ethos of what journalism is supposed to be about".