The technology – while complex – is perhaps conceptually best understood as a secure distributed network of verified strangers.
Christiano grounds his account in a fundamental principle of justice requiring the equal advancement of people's interests, Wellman in a Samaritan duty of easy rescue, and Stilz in a Kantian duty of respect for others's freedom-as-independence, understood as a secure sphere of self-determination defined by a person's rights.
We understand as well that the success of multilateralism is not measured by adherence to forms alone, the tidiness of the process, but by the results we achieve to keep our nations secure.
make neighborhoods as secure as possible.
Odeon is understood to have secured a longer and more substantial guarantee from Disney to protect the theatrical window, as well as a fresh agreement on commercial terms.
Given the difficulties, it is unclear that interpretation could secure completeness, understood as power to resolve all possible disputes (which is often understood to be interpretation's further, perhaps basic objective; see Raz 1994; Finnis 1987; see also Leiter 2007, who claims that the thesis that there is a right answer to all legal questions is at the core of Dworkin's project).
As an exercise of public diplomacy, it will certainly confirm the assumption of many people around the world that American power is best understood as a raw, neocolonial exercise in securing resources.
The term 'business' is understood in a wide sense to include all systems involved in the exchange of goods and services, while 'ethics' is understood as applying to all human action aimed at securing a good life.
36 But this land rent— the yield from the paddies,— understood as a gift to the gods in order to secure the further fertility of the fields— was only part of what the peasants had to provide to the temple.
Social capital is understood as a set of networks and connections in which actors secure benefits and resources by virtue of membership and contacts.
Social capital is understood as a set of networks and connections in which actors secure benefits and resources by virtue of membership and contacts (Portes, 1998).
