Sentence examples for substances even though from inspiring English sources

Addicts cannot deal with their loss of control over substances, even though they seem to be controlling other aspects of their lives.

But speaking to the Rossiya 24 television channel Mutko complained about the committee's decision to ban those Russian athletes who have tested positive for performance-enhancing substances "even though we know dozens of athletes from well-known countries who will compete at Rio with just such a history".

On this use, Hume's impressions and ideas are not substances, even though they are the building blocks of what constitutes 'being' for his world.

He sided with Locke and Newton against Descartes in denying that we have knowledge of the essence of substances, even though we can be sure that there are at least two kinds of substances (mental and material) because their properties (thinking and divisibility) are incompatible.

Condillac claimed that, were each particular smell only ever experienced in conjunction with just one particular sound, and vice versa, the two would not be thought of as distinct things or substances, even though they would be distinguished from one another.

Traditionally developed foods are not generally tested for these substances even though they often occur naturally and can be affected by traditional breeding.

The agency has the authority it needs to regulate the lead in ammunition as a toxic substance, even though it isn't authorized to regulate the manufacture of ammunition itself.

The Scot Alain Baxter won bronze in the slalom in 2002 but had to hand it back after testing positive for a banned substance, even though it was later proved to be the result of using a Vicks inhaler.

These women's problems have substance even though their characters are thinly written, and the film's comedic flourishes offer a refreshing frankness about sex from women's perspectives.

For example, as long as there are, in the community of speakers, experts who know how to tell gold from other materials, lay speakers can successfully use the term gold to refer to that substance even though they lack the knowledge in question.

As a result, the macro-object is not simply a primary substance but an orderly collection of categorial items, so that primary substance, even though it is the most important element, does not contain the whole being of the macro-object.