Sentence examples for whose observance from inspiring English sources
So one way for Mill to reconcile rights and utility is for him to treat rights as secondary principles, perhaps especially important ones, whose observance is justified on utilitarian grounds (also see Berger 1984: chs. 3 4).
By defining data quality rules whose observance can be measured at various levels across the enterprise information architecture, the data quality practitioner can assemble scorecards for evaluating stability and predictability associated with data quality measurements, and can differentiate common causes from special causes of data failures.
On the celebrated birthday of Jesus, we should not forget, nor tolerate, that there are those in disparate places of the world whose observance of this joyous day is threatened by both official or unofficial restrictions and even violence.
The European Union will need to look for powers in Serbia which are not driven by this blinkered nationalism but by values whose observance has also proved to benefit humanity in the European Union.
As Orthodox Jews, they are people whose religious observance forms the structure of their lives, and that observance has at its center the longing for the holy city, the golden place where David and Solomon once ruled.
Kaifeng Jew, Wade-Giles romanization K'ai-feng Jew, member of a former religious community in Henan province, China, whose careful observance of Jewish precepts over many centuries has long intrigued scholars.
But much of his rise has to do with his reputation as an independent-minded New Democrat whose religious observance is appreciated by some of his more conservative colleagues across the aisle and whose policy interests have at times diverged with the majority view in the Democratic Party.
As we will see, Mill thinks that much moral reasoning should be governed by secondary precepts or principles about such things as fidelity, fair play, and honesty that make no direct reference to utility but whose general observance does promote utility.
Act utilitarianism states that in all cases the morally right action is the one which produces the most pleasure, whereas rule utilitarianism states that the morally right action is the one that is in accordance with a moral rule whose general observance would create the most happiness.
For someone whose most religious observance was getting stoned and watching the lightning storms, it was peculiar that this news should so upset me.
He did everything in his power to save the Jesuits from the Bourbon absolutists, who confederated with the Jansenists (advocates of a heretical doctrine deemphasizing freedom of the will and teaching that redemption through Christ's death is open to some but not all) and the Freemasons, whose beliefs and observances were considered pagan and unlawful by the Roman Catholic Church.
