If one had to guess, the DOMA case appears to be stronger than the Prop 8 one, and more likely to be the instrument for the next stage in the progress toward marriage equality.
The Social Democrats agreed that the commune must and should be replaced by capitalist ownership, but they saw this only as the next stage in the progress toward a socialist revolution led by urban workers.
It is difficult, however, to determine what cases are suitable for this treatment; but, if it could be accurately determined at what stage in the progress of an infectious arthritis the operation is indicated, the results would be gratifying.
"I picture to myself the various states of an engraving," writes Mr. Starobinski, considering those collaborations with circumstance to which Mr. Winters often refers, "which of course are stages in the progress of a conception, but are also responses to problems connected with putting the engraving into circulation: the wear of the plate, inkings, papers, and so on.
Insofar as doctrines and dogmas represent conceptualizations of the human encounter with the divine mystery, they are bound to reflect the interplay of faith and reason in religious experience and to imply some notion of levels and stages in the progress of believers as they move from the threshold of faith toward its fulfillment.
This article will elucidate the most important stages in the progress of Plato's thought.
Stage theories propose that individuals are at different stages in the progress toward behaviour change (for example, a motivated stage is likely to occur before an action stage), and that predictors of behaviour may be different for individuals at different stages.
The first stage in this progress is a journey to California undertaken, with varying degrees of enthusiasm and reluctance, to accompany Olive to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant.
Recalling the negative moment of the Hegelian dialectic (the second stage in the cyclic progress of history and ideas through thesis, antithesis, and synthesis), Žižek conceives of the subject as something purely negative, a void or an emptiness of being (which Lacan refers to as the incomplete, divided, or "barred" subject of the unconscious).
The changes in Cx43 pattern distribution were seen at a fairly early stage in the disease progress, suggesting that Cx43 may be an early indicator of cardiac stress.
The poet, for example, may describe the ascent of a hill in such a way that each physical step corresponds to a new stage in the soul's progress toward a higher level of existence.
