Sentences with phrase «desideratum of»

On the website concerning the Québec Charter of Values you'll find a statement from the minister, Bernard Drainville, and, if you follow the arrows at the bottom of each screen, the desideratum of «clear rules for everyone ``, an «affirmation of Québec values» («By affirming these values, we are proposing to build a strong Québec identity, whether one was born here or elsewhere.»)

But the desideratum of equilibrium usually manifests itself in bodily motility when we lose the ability to orient ourselves.

Far from the imposition of an alien rationalism, such a demand for clarity and comprehensiveness is therefore a necessary desideratum of any interpretive theory, whether in epistemology or in the history of ideas.17 Recognition of the need for such comprehensive and mutually exclusive concepts need not restrict, but can rather uncover possible, if perhaps neglected schemes for both historical and constructive presentation.

I would argue, therefore, that the philosophy of organism is sufficient, even if nor necessary, to fulfill Merleau - Ponty's desiderata of a philosophy of nature.

What that demographic tends to seek for its children's education — besides the universal desiderata of «a solid core curriculum... an emphasis on... STEM education, and the development in students of good study habits, strong critical thinking skills, and excellent verbal and written communication skills» — is schools that «offer vocational classes or job - related programs.»

It is to jeopardize one of the fundamental desiderata of the rule of law: that the law be enforceable.

Not exact matches

The end of the world was at hand, and in view of this ultimate and swiftly approaching judgment day, personal readiness to meet it was the main desideratum, and personal morals fit to meet it were described in terms of the highest idealism.

As examples of the latter: if the baptism of all human persons in the triune name is a desideratum and is alone productive of salvation, as many Christians believe (and as the Gospel of Matthew seems explicitly to claim), then it is false that the chanting of the «nam myoho range kyo» is the principle means of human salvation, as some Japanese Buddhists claim.

Only two presidents have overcome these desiderata (John Kennedy and Barack Obama), and they have run against their religion (in the case of Kennedy) and their race (in the case of Obama), reassuring the American people that they weren't really all that Catholic or all that black — that they were Americans first, and members of their religious or racial communities second.

To de Lubac and others, drafts of this document seemed like little more than laundry lists of political and social desiderata, lacking what he called «apostolic boldness»: the evangelical spirit essential for genuinely Christian engagement with the world.

The emphasis on individualism is partly at expression of metaphysics but it is also a reaction to societies in which greater freedom of self - expression and personal autonomy was a real desideratum.

They do not dictate any particular curriculum, although the authors offer a concrete example of what a curriculum that accorded with these four desiderata would look like (cf. 129 - 30).

From this perspective an analogy between an old and a new theory is not simply an aid in exploiting the latter, but is a desideratum which many scientists tacitly seek to achieve in the construction of explanatory systems.26

«That which nature has provided is the milk of its parent,» wrote Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale in 1857, «but when this is lacking, a preparation formed of cow's milk and water, with a little loaf sugar, supplies the desideratum [essentials].

«Obedience to the rule of law by all citizens but more particularly those who publicly took oath of office to protect and preserve the Constitution is a desideratum to good governance and respect for the rule of law.

«Obedience to the rule of law by all citizens, but more particularly those who publicly took oath of office to protect and preserve the constitution, is a desideratum to good governance and respect for the rule of law.

instead of employing manufactured products or educts, such as zinc and acids, we could realise as electricity the whole of the chemical force which is active in the combustion of cheap and abundant raw materials... we should obtain one of the greatest practical desiderata, and have at our command a mechanical power in every respect superior in its applicability to the steam - engine.

So we urgent need a new philosophy of education capable to achieve these desiderata.

Truthful revelation of preferences has emerged as a desideratum in the design of school choice programs.

At present these desiderata are impossible to attain [emphasis added]... [but]... let us not make the mistake of assuming that the results that we can measure are the only results of teaching, or even that they are the most important part.»

They are impetuous spirits who, in their security in the present, must needs press ahead and overtake, in creating, even at the risk of finding that realities may not bring them their desideratum; and they have a right to their attitude.

My 1st boss on The Ford Administration's «Energy Policy Staff of the Executive Office of The President» (was how the R's billed us, the authors, in the Year following the Crash publication of R. Nixon's «PROJECT INDEPENDENCE REPORT» — a term the Senior folks thereabouts had come to hate, and so by the Ford years became: «The National Energy Review»), had A) the following, «Desiderata» * posted upon his office wall, including this bit:

It's noteworty that the World Health Organization's «Framework Convention on Tobacco Control» has these two measures at the top of its list of desiderata — and that the U.S., though it has signed the treaty, is one of only a handful of countries not to have ratified it.

The emphasized sentence seems to run across one of the desiderata you expressed elsewhere.

This would be a future desideratum in distinction, and as a break from, the «piecemeal» approach before the Treaty of Maastricht whereby individuals» legal rights and duties were grounded in disparate primary and secondary law sources.

This latter point is on the one hand a simple statement of a desideratum, but on the other vital also to valid rights; you will have to make the call as to when the data you have means the invention is plausible.

Applicable both to CPD and to the workplace, the series of competences articulated as desiderata for the trainee as part of the work - based learning scheme being piloted by Nottingham Law School and others do, I suggest, go a long way towards providing such implementable steps for lawyers at any stage of their careers.