Sentence examples for specific state of affairs from inspiring English sources

Yet, the philosopher Bernard Suits wrote, "To play a game is to engage in activity directed towards bringing about a specific state of affairs, using only means permitted by rules, where the rules prohibit more efficient in favor of less efficient means, and where such rules are accepted just because they make possible such activity".

For example, when I say that I prefer my living room to be painted pink rather than grey I indicate a preference for a specific state of affairs out of a set of fixed alternatives.

Rather, it is that in these networks there are no causally distinct structures that stand for specific states of affairs.

For example, he maintains that a priori knowledge is first and foremost knowledge of specific states of affairs (e.g., the being equal of 2+2 and 4) rather than of propositions or things.

Compensating victims against damages, without any reference to somebody's fault, prevails on sanctioning those who are 'responsible', whose influence on a specific, adverse state of affairs becomes irrelevant according to this 'objective' logic of compensation.

Right now the company could be facing caps on how many nights its hosts can accept for a specific property, a state of affairs that both Conway and Wilson thought was misguided.

Our review of the state-of-affairs of GM crops in Europe raises several fundamental issues.

69 74 All told, this state-of-affairs calls for active strategies to promote collaboratively-oriented systems.

Thanks to the annual River-to-River Festival and Sitelines, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's series of site-specific performances, that state of affairs has been corrected.

The importance of these questions is that responsibility in law very often depends on showing that a specific action or event or state of affairs has caused specific harm or loss to another.

The report comes during a presidential primary season notably devoid of any specifics on education policy, a state of affairs Klein hopes to influence.