Sentence examples for theory of death from inspiring English sources

Legal ambiguities remained people considered alive in one region of the country could be declared dead in another and, in 1981, the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems proposed a uniform definition and theory of death.

The commission's staff philosopher, Daniel Wikler, a professor at Harvard and the first staff ethicist for the World Health Organization, told me that he didn't think the commission's theory of death was supported by the scientific facts it cited.

By way of a final note on A Dangerous Method: although I usually can't adapt to Brits doing eastern european accents (like Danielle Day-Lewis in the aformentioned The Unbearable Lightness of Being) Keira Knightley's portrayal of Sabina Spielrein, who developed this theory of death-urge as creative-urge (from which Freud borrowed) could be the basis for a feature film.

This oxymoronic combination of progress and the lack of it has meant that a variety of theories on death have emerged in the last several years.

In fact one, presented by James Gray of Goldsmiths College, was an extended rebuke to Roland Barthes's idiotic theory of the death of the author.

A line about Pascoe's theory of the death of socialism devolves into a routine about her favourite TV shows – and the theory is never fleshed out.

James Bernat, a neurologist at Dartmouth who helped develop the theory of brain death that formed the basis of the 1981 President's Commission report, told me that Shewmon showed him some of the videos.

The author jokes about how Iran is subconsciously practicing "the late Roland Barthes's theory of the Death of the Author," and likens this control to political torture and disappearance: "So it is that many stories... in maneuvering their way through the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance either are wounded, lose certain limbs, or are with finality put to death".

The strength of the autopsy evidence forced the Egyptian authorities to abandon the implausible theories of accidental death and begin a new public relations offensive.

Mendizábal had already begun to construct a counter-scenario to subvert CICIG's theory of Rosenberg's death.

This article was amended on 3 April 2014 to make it clear that the pneumonic theory of the Black Death's spread is Dr Tim Brooks's own, as shown in the Channel 4 documentary.