Certain drugs act without engaging in any direct interaction with the components of the cell.
The ruling played down the question of bias: Judges "impartially carry out their duties and make tough decisions time and time again, and that they uniformly do so without engaging in any location-specific favoritism".
When an actor pulls back to consider the actions of another actor, wordlessly and without engaging in any showoffy stage business — adjusting his tie, or moving a teacup around on a saucer — the playwright's ideas about our interconnectedness can be made abundantly clear, even without the "words, words, words" that Hamlet complained of.
She was musing about what might be lost if we stop being "transgressive," without engaging in any meaningful way with what it might feel like to be a student who regularly experiences racial slights at a supposedly liberal place like Yale.
On such a footing, it is possible to launch powerful arguments against the claim that moral principles undergird every moral truth (Dancy 1993) and for the claim that we can sometimes perfectly well decide what to do by acting on the reasons we perceive instinctively — or as we have been trained — without engaging in any moral reasoning.
Valeant spokeswoman Laurie Little said Monday in an email that her company was disappointed that Allergan made its decision without "engaging in any substantive discussions" with Valeant or Allergan's largest stockholder, Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management LP.
In order to reduce possible influences on the results, participants were not informed of the order in which painful stimulation and acupuncture blocks would be performed, and in order to facilitate blinding, they were instructed to keep their eyes closed to prevent them from actually observing the procedures, and were asked to remain relaxed without engaging in any mental tasks.
A possible study in this field can randomize systematic reviewers to test three approaches, one without engaging patients, one with engaging patients with the condition being studied, and one with engaging patients with any condition (general patients).
It's easy to just lob an accusation of intellectual dishonesty out there and skate past any disagreement without engaging it.
