Sentence examples for what we acquire from inspiring English sources

The play could be called inconsequential, ultimately amounting to little more than the anti-aspirational message that who we are is more important than what we acquire.

When a model is sent down the runway in a perfectly cut flowing pantsuit with a halter top made to look like a giant change purse, it does not take the critical skills of a Roland Barthes to see that Mr. Yamamoto has something to say about the ways we define ourselves by what we acquire.

In individuals, bias stems from two things: what we bring and what we acquire.

Such a concept is determinate and not vague, since it applies to only one thing, but it is also not what we first acquire, Buridan thinks.

They are just recipients of our charity, targets for our drones and are valuable based on what we can acquire from them or what they can communicate in our photo opps.

It is, however, also meant to support the untenability of the assumption that agnosticism with respect to the real existence of mind-independent things is a viable option for a believer in Locke's model of how and by what means we acquire knowledge of objects.

We are convinced that what we are acquiring today is clean".

Among its business customers — in other words, the ones that pay Jobvite for its services — Finnigan notes that the revenue that it collects from individual customers based on its software-as-a-service framework is "significantly higher than what we spend acquiring those customers".

I know that it gets harder to believe in the appeal of non-material virtues in our world of monster-size plasma TV sets, Access Hollywood and Donald Trump-ery; hard to believe that we are nothing more than what we have acquired; harder still to believe that we are a part of what we unabashedly used to call the family of man.

Brauer (2006) has more extensively reviewed divestures in his work titled: "What Have We Acquired and What Should We Acquire in Divestiture Research?

If each of us has the kind of direct knowledge we have of our own experience only in the case of those experiences that are ours, by what means could we acquire the concepts we have of mental states belonging to human beings other than ourselves?