Sentence examples for upon existence from inspiring English sources

Weinberg argues, convincingly, that "interests are contingent upon existence" and thus, that "[i]f a hypothetically possible person will never exist then there is no real subject for interests at all".

Since property and corporate franchises used in interstate commerce can be constitutionally taxed by States, whether profitable or unprofitable, it seems difficult to justify a constitutional test for state income taxes based upon existence or absence of profit.

This, then, is E's Blood on the Tracks, his response to the devastation of a collapsed relationship; except that rather than viewed through the refracting mirrors of metaphor and allusion, he can't help projecting his own grief upon existence in general.

However, their advice-seeking behavior was dependent upon existence of informal social interaction with the senior specialists.

The failure of Congress to respond in a meaningful way to gun violence as a whole in the wake of the Orlando massacre is shameful as is the largely unremarked-upon existence of these lesser-known mass shootings.

The tortoise is a keystone species, meaning that upon its existence numerous other species exist.

Most of the existing protocols are also built upon the existence of the dedicated CCC.

It is such things that exist in the primary sense, and it is upon their existence that the existence of other types of being depends.

As Varanus attempts to use the existing resources in a a cloud deployment its performance depends upon the existence of under-utilised resources.

Instead of making the justification of a desert claim depend upon the existence of an actual social institution, we can make it depend upon the rules that would be contained in some ideal social institution.

This hinges upon "necessary existence," a property with even higher value than "existence". A being that necessarily exists cannot coherently be thought not to exist.