Sentence examples for upon desires from inspiring English sources

While dreamers can act upon desires or impulses, they do not experience themselves as a self in the act of deciding, attending or rationally thinking about certain events, and they cannot ascribe this property to themselves.

Attacks on the Humean position have often been motivated by moral considerations: one does not need to have any desires whatsoever (not desires properly so-called, at any rate) in order to have a reason to do what is moral, according to some anti-Humeans, and so this particular reason to act, at least, is not in any way dependent upon desires (e.g., Schueler 1995).

Nonetheless, the historian complains, "everyone alike fell in love with the enterprise: the old men upon hope to subdue the place they went to or that at least so great a power could not miscarry; and the young men upon desire to see a foreign country and to gaze, making little doubt but to return with safety".

Edelman writes about the benefits of this functional simplicity and selectivity (1971: 67): "Each metaphor intensifies selected perceptions and ignores others, thereby helping one to concentrate upon desired consequences of favored public politics and helping one to ignore their unwanted, unthinkable, or irrelevant premise and aftermaths.

We consider this question in light of what is known about the natural variation in enzyme structure and function and conclude tha t it is unlikely that changes which improve upon desired enzyme function will result in the creation of a toxic protein.

Correlation with scanning-EM should more generally be applicable to the study of plasma membrane and cell shape remodeling during cell migration, upon desired treatment and time period.

Before you decide to commit to running a campaign, you should spend some careful time reflecting upon desire to run for office.

Cut straps so that they're approximately two inches wide, and 12 to 18 inches (30.5 to 45.7 cm) long, depending upon desired length.

It is possible to be attracted to children as a sexual orientation without acting upon those desires.

Lucy, 25, wonders if the number of people who say they are not straight really tallies with the number of people who are actually acting upon those desires.

Such a view can preserve the spirit of internalism by claiming that the rational force of these reasons for any agent depends upon his desires or motivations.