"The Senate could remove the basis for the president's exercise of his recess appointment authority by remaining continuously in session and being available to receive and act on nominations, but it cannot do so by providing for pro forma sessions at which no business is to be conducted," Ms. Seitz wrote.
That is, the compatibilist, on the one hand, seems to argue that were we to remove "causal necessity" from the from the relation that holds between agent and action then we will thereby remove the basis on which attributions of responsibility are founded.
The baptism of the Lithuanians removed the basis for the existence of the Teutonic Order, which had officially been founded to defend Christianity.
The deus ex machina was an invitation by the court to the plaintiff, Northwest Austin sewer district, to "bail out" from Section 5 coverage — even though the statute's plain language made jurisdictions of the sewer district's sort ineligible for the bail-out option — thus removing the basis for ruling on the section's constitutionality.
Only the philosopher, because of his passion for abstractions, is tempted to conceive, on the one hand, a purely mechanistic relation, one which in fact negates activity altogether and thus removes the basis for the desired relationships; on the other hand, one which is purely active, exclusively spontaneous, and thus attains the same result by the opposite route.
Once the neurons are stably adapted, they may no longer show transient adaptive changes in response to single periodic vibrations, thereby removing the basis on which noise impairs discrimination performance.
We then removed the basis vector which reduced the condition number most.
Darwin (1859) removed the basis of beliefs that evolution is a directed process, and that Homo sapiens was the goal of evolution (or creation).
"Defense counsel appeared to object to the prosecutor's supposed use of a peremptory challenge to remove the juror on the basis of homosexuality," wrote the court, "while the prosecutor seemed clearly to focus on what he perceived to be the transgendered appearance of the juror".
If you take that away [you remove] the basis of negotiations.
In so doing, he neatly but unconvincingly removes the physical basis for good or bad behaviour.
