Sentence examples for the power of causing from inspiring English sources

Motion is brought about by a particular already-existing force, by something that has the power of causing motion.

Dennett (1987) sums up the issue: "Searle's view, then, comes to this: take a material object (any material object) that does not have the power of causing mental phenomena; you cannot turn it in to an object that does have the power of producing mental phenomena simply by programming it reorganizing the conditional dependencies of transitions between its states".

A lachrymore, or someone who is given to weeping, the Cormorant has the power of causing debilitating and crippling sadness in those he encounters.

Business in the Community believes the tough commercial environment should encourage more charities to latch on to the power of cause related marketing as a vital tool in raising cash.

Startup Good World Games is developing Facebook games devoted purely to marrying the power of causes with the viral explosion of social gaming.

But they do, through the power of sentiment, cause the Dow to have a record setting day!

Scientists would say that Nunn was a victim of the ideomotor effect, when the power of suggestion causes unconscious movement.

Try not to laugh when he described how "They strike, wrap around you, hold you tighter than your true love, and you get the privilege of hearing your bones break before the power of embrace causes your veins to explode".

That's why Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now caused such a sensation; it reminded us of nunc fluens, or eternal time, as opposed to nunc stans, or hourglass time.

The state of things at M is thought to have the power to cause the arising of the state of things at M+1.

The power of a cause is simply the proportion of times it produces the outcome, in a hypothetical context in which no other effective causes of the same outcome exist (Cheng, 1997).