Sentence examples for thereby cease from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, according to Rousseau, if a political association that is small enough to practice direct democracy, such as a city-state, were to come into existence, it would inevitably be subjugated by larger nation-states and thereby cease to be democratic.

Clarke readily sees that were a perfectly good, omniscient being to freely choose to do some evil deed, it would thereby cease to be perfectly good.

If I drop (1), I would cease to intend to E (according to Strong) and thereby cease to be instrumentally incoherent, and if I drop my instrumental belief (2), I would also cease to be instrumentally incoherent.

Were I to comply with Closure by forming the belief (3), I would, according to Weak, thereby cease to intend to E. In ceasing to believe (2), I would cease to be instrumentally incoherent.

However, it does not thereby cease to be an end of that institution which is to say, of those persons even at those times when it is not being pursued.

If someone were to deny that she has a duty of special concern for the well-being of her country and compatriots, beyond what the laws of her country mandate and beyond the concern she has for humans and humanity, would she thereby cease to be a citizen (in the sense involving equal standing)?

(Well, it was complicated. You were both building walls and not building walls; if you built them right, the walls disappeared, thereby ceasing to be walls).

Vasoconstriction takes place in injured vessels due to neural reflex mechanism, thereby ceasing blood flow occurs for a few minutes.

A being who freely chooses to do what it knows to be an evil deed thereby ceases to be a perfectly good being.

But when that is the case, it would seem that God thereby ceases to be a being who is either an appropriate object of religious attitudes, or a ground for believing that fundamental human hopes are not in vain.

It is in the dawning awareness of their dependence upon nature that human beings first begin to distinguish themselves from nature, without, however, thereby ceasing to be dependent upon it.