Sentence examples for through their relation from inspiring English sources

The parts of a watch are also possible only through their relation to the whole, but that is because the watch is designed and produced by some rational being.

The first, that the "parts are possible…only through their relation to the whole" (§65, 373), is a condition on something's being, not only a natural purpose, but a purpose tout court.

Moreover, as indicated in Dustmann et al. (2005, p. 328), "the assumption that lagged values of immigrant stocks are correlated with outcome changes only through their relation with immigrant inflows is an identifying assumption that is not testable".

The Argentine labor market (and political landscape) has been characterized by the presence of strong, industry wide unions, which played a significant role in shaping the country's social, economic and political outlook, mainly through their relation with the peronist party.

Then the act or attitude type, rather than its diverse objects, would be what all episodes of pleasure have in common and, presumably, be what makes them such, while its objects, including instances of 'sensory pleasure' (in use 2 of n. 1, 8), are brought together only through their relation to it (cf. Feldman 1997a, 2004).

An important example of this is the process called deixis, which describes the way in which certain words refer to entities through their relation between a specific point in time and space when the word is uttered.

When people meet, they run through their relations and background: "Where you grad? ..

They are also a critical component of Syria's connection to Russia and the West, serving an intermediary role through their relations with the global Armenian diaspora.

Those propositional attitudes are themselves intelligible only through their relations to language.

At a minimum, it does seem clear that whether or not all laws impose obligations, they can only be fully understood through their relations to those that do.

Other magnitudes exist that admit of ordering from smaller to greater, but whose ratios and/or differences cannot currently be determined except through their relations to other, fundamentally measurable magnitudes.