Sentence examples for the modern constitution from inspiring English sources

But under the modern constitution -- and a strong governor -- senatorial courtesy is primarily used as leverage.

Scientific and technological development is not in practice bound by the modern constitution.

Transient convergence and relational sensibility: beyond the modern constitution of nature.

Our concern here is not Latour's analysis of modernity, but the question of how well ELSI fits into a picture of an activity that is bound by the modern constitution, while its replacement, the post-ELSI strategies are not.

The normative work within the modern constitution is in this analysis conditioned by what Latour called a "work of purification": The realm of fact and value, nature and society should carefully be purified, separated and subsequently treated in different realms, defining among other things the work descriptions of the humanist and social scientist.

An ELSI research strategy, as it appears to us, is more specifically understood as tokens of being bound by what Latour ([1993]; chapter 2) called the modern constitution prescribing a sharp division of labour between natural scientist on the one hand and humanist and social scientists on the other hand.

"I am proud of the new and modern Constitution," he said, adding that it was "the first in Europe to prescribe decreasing public debt and keeping the balance of the budget".

I believe that we now have the chance to build a modern constitution for the whole of the United Kingdom".

The "living tree" metaphor languished, underappreciated, for years until 1982, when Canada adopted its modern constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and Canadian judges needed an interpretive methodology.

Britishness and devolution The last of the three perceived threats to Britishness is the new flexibility in our modern constitution.

By modern standards, the new constitution was not "democratic"; Adams, like most of his peers, believed that only free males who owned property should be allowed to vote, and that the senate and the governor served to balance any excesses that might result from majority rule.