Sentence examples for statement of identities from inspiring English sources

In other words, a proposition is necessary (or expresses a necessary truth) if, in analyzing it, one arrives at a statement of identities.

It was a statement of identity.

Here religious tax is an act of allegiance and a statement of identity.

He talks about circumcision as a "statement of identity" and about it "marking me out as belonging".

At the same time, many people devote hours upon hours of unpaid time to pimping their ride, because they understand their vehicle as a statement of identity.

As a parlor game, the question of the last meal is an indulgent, lighthearted fantasy — useful, perhaps, as an exercise in nostalgia or a concise statement of identity, but divorced from the macabre implication underlying the hypothetical.

His statement of identity and identification ("I am also X") achieved the exact opposite effect, underscoring the unbridgeable gap between the "unemployed" multimillionaire and the out-of-work Floridians.

As a parlor game, the question of the last meal is an indulgent, lighthearted fantasy useful, perhaps, as an exercise in nostalgia or a concise statement of identity, but divorced from the macabre implication underlying the hypothetical.

As the mere breath mint becomes a fashion accessory and a statement of identity, the $3 billion fresh-breath industry is exploding, pitting giant corporations against one another in the race to freshen gamy American mouths.

Would that she could team up with as lively and astute a chronicler of the human condition as Desiree Akhavan, star and director of Appropriate Behaviour (Peccadillo, 15), in which she plays a Persian-American bisexual muddling her way through the fraught Brooklyn social scene; it's a mottled but auspicious debut and a singular statement of identity.

To sum up, the most natural way to read the text is as repeatedly equivocating between a statement of identity and one that predicates a more general term of the objects denoted by a less general term.