Sentence examples for whose acceptance from inspiring English sources

But this is still not enough to show that it is the best explanation and hence the one whose acceptance is thereby justified (assuming as we are the general acceptability of explanatory or abductive reasoning).

Like Greer Garson, whose acceptance speech for "Mrs. Miniver" (1942) clocked in at about 10 minutes.

Rather, its roots lie in the arrogant naivety of a party whose acceptance of capitalism and the compromises of democracy was all too recent.

This is the first year of eligibility for Nirvana, whose acceptance into the Rock Hall pantheon is widely seen in the music industry as a fait accompli.

The proposed changes in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (whose acceptance by Congress is not assured, to say the least) account for only 5 percent of the deficit reduction that the overall plan would achieve by 2020.

At one point he confides to a near-stranger about his classmates' lives of privilege; one boy, whose acceptance at Harvard is guaranteed by family status, has greeted Derek Bok, Harvard's president, with a casual "Hey, Bok".

The school carelessly handled a very stressful situation in which the losers were the 76 anxious high-school seniors whose acceptances were cruelly rescinded.

Accordingly, for James, metaphysical theses were to be interpreted as hypotheses whose adoption or acceptance by a pragmatic agent was justified only if it would lead to verifiable or confirmable consequences in future human experience.

If impartial reasons are always sufficient even when opposed by personal ones, then everyone has sufficient reason to will that everyone accept the rules whose universal acceptance will have the best consequences impartially considered.

Then they hold what can be called public acceptance rule consequentialism: an act is morally wrong if and only if it violates a rule whose public acceptance maximizes the good.

The cast is first-rate, with Mr. DeVries giving the evening's most affecting performance as Benjamin, whose dignified acceptance of his mind's malfunctioning strikes a moving note.