Sentence examples for was originally understood from inspiring English sources

Zen Buddhism was the principal conduit for knowledge of this painting tradition, which was originally understood as an exercise potentially leading to enlightenment, either through viewing or in the practice of putting brush to paper.

Presumably 'equal protection' was originally understood, both by the authors of the 14th Amendment and by the people on whose behalf they acted, as fully consistent with segregation.

The central component of the late-selection theory, as it was originally understood, was that the effect of withdrawing attention from a stimulus is to make it the case that the stimulus is processed without the subject's awareness, rather than not being processed at all.

At the conserving extreme, we find accounts such as 'originalism' in US constitutional interpretation which claims that in interpreting a particular provision of the Constitution, judges should seek to establish the way in which the provision was originally understood by those who ratified it (see e.g. Bork 1990).

That Bible passage, also known as the "Curse of Canaan," was originally understood to justify the subjection of the Canaanites to the Israelites.

Gutzman's work on this subject aligns closely with what Scalia saw as the proper role of a Supreme Court Justice, to interpret the Constitution as it was originally understood by those who framed and ratified it.

Nuclear power plant safety-related cable tray support systems subjected to seismic loadings were originally understood and designed to behave as linear elastic systems.

This information illustrates that conflict-affected abductees and non-abductees may experience vulnerability to HIV infection in different ways than may be originally understood (i.e., different exposure opportunities).

Typologies of personality were originally understood in terms of their similarity to variation in seasons of the year, temperature (cold-warm), and humidity (wet-dry), as in the humoral theory of Hippocrates and Galen [ 39, 47, 48] and in the models of temperament and personality developed by Pavlov, Eysenck, and Gray [ 39, 42].

The health belief model (HBM) as explained by Nutbeam and Harris (17) is a model that was originally designed to understand the choice to participate in immunization or cancer screening programs but was later expanded to understand long-term behavioral change.

Mutation testing is a method related to ours that was originally designed to understand how good test suites are at detecting faults [35].