Sentence examples for render ourselves from inspiring English sources

To desert those principles when a particular occasion puts them to the test, is to exclude ourselves, by our own act, from the pale of civilised society, and to render ourselves, as it were, outlaws to the rest of the world.'" It is perhaps a sentiment that Paddington Bear might raise a paw to.

Computers rely on models, systems and simplifications which we have built in order to render ourselves comprehensible to them.

That is to say, we render ourselves incapable of understanding how the materials, processes, and concerns of a highly militarized, technoscientific culture shape the world and our very selves.

In other words, 'suicide' should not be equatable with wrongful self-killing in the way that 'murder' is equated with wrongful killing of another, lest we render ourselves unable to refer even to the possibility of a morally justified self-killing.

The seventeenth century French mathematician René Descartes, for example, wrote of employing science and human knowledge so that "we can… render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature".

This course in Critical Psychology follows the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and most recently, Avital Ronell, in a philosophical examination of those operations and technologies that we conduct in order to render ourselves uncomprehending.

That is not enhancing our sovereignty; it is walking away from the top table and rendering ourselves powerless.

Time management gurus rarely stop to ask whether the task of merely staying afloat in the modern economy – holding down a job, paying the mortgage, being a good-enough parent – really ought to require rendering ourselves inhumanly efficient in the first place.

We can drink to excess and overload on carbs, rendering ourselves useless to even follow a political discourse.

Unfortunately, we are naively living under a soft despotism -- thereby rendering ourselves "timid and industrious animals" to the "shepherd" that is our federal government.

We reach out to our friends or trusted colleagues to get their opinions, thereby adding more "hands" and rendering ourselves more confused than ever.