Sentence examples for rival conceptions from inspiring English sources

They are rival conceptions of what a government is for.

These rival conceptions of the Presidency Clinton as executive, Obama as visionary reflect a deeper difference in how the two candidates analyze what ails the country.

But perhaps the most important difference between these two politicians — whose policy views, after all, are almost indistinguishable — lies in their rival conceptions of the Presidency.

These rival conceptions of the Presidency — Clinton as executive, Obama as visionary — reflect a deeper difference in how the two candidates analyze what ails the country.

The strategic conflict is not between American and Israeli interests but rather between rival conceptions of how the two countries should exert and coördinate their respective national powers, the United States globally, and Israel regionally.

Specifically, the article seeks to demonstrate the greater adequacy of a global ethics of responsibility for the enhancement of life against rival conceptions developed in terms of Human Rights discourse or the so-called Capabilities Approach.

It is opposed to a rival conception of morality as "giving to each his due," where the level of desert is understood to vary according sex, race, talent, might, lineage, and other such features.

On a rival, "dualist" conception, there are two sorts of fundamental entities: simple particulars that instantiate spatiotemporal relations (and are therefore to be called "spacetime points"); and simple particulars that do not instantiate spatiotemporal relations, but do bear a different, perfectly natural relation of "occupancy" to spacetime points (call these "occupants").

Conceptions of rival Gods, by contrast, leave open various questions about their nature, the answering of which would detract from their simplicity, and thus their probability.

But over all the techniques have proved safe, and success rates have climbed to rival those of natural conception.

All Cornelis wants in life is a son and heir, and the montage of the Sandvoorts' attempts at conception rivals The Right Stuff's collage of failed rocket launches.