Sentences with phrase «ejusdem generis»

«Without forcing the parallels, because climate change is in many respects sui generis, a similar suite of allegations could readily be brought against a company for its responses to this new challenge,» they write.

(It is in this sense that I used the term sui generis.)

Each phase is causa sui in itself through its decisive modification of subjective aim; the final phase or satisfaction completes the sui generis creativity of the occasion.

It wasn't a sui generis invention by some «godking» for «control purposes.»

Freedom is not sui generis.

Hostis humani generis.

In chiding Justice Kennedy he wrote: «It is one thing for a society to elect change; it is another for a court of law to impose change by adjudging those who oppose it hostis humani generis, enemies of the human race.»

In Humani generis the pope stated two points.

At that time few of us felt terribly threatened by the highly authoritarian and obediential motifs of Humani generis.

How many Catholics realize that Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical, Humani generis, indicates that duscussion of biological evolution is compatible with Christian faith (# 36)-- as long as God's intervention is recognized as necessary for creating the human soul.

I believe it is sui generis.

In the same way «once upon a time» tells us to expect a fairy tale and «here is the news» to expect a report on the day's significant activities, the «sui generis» approach to the gospels invited the expectation that we would learn about the early Church, not the life of a historical figure.

Our teachers took the line first espoused by Rudolf Bultmann and the form critics: The gospels were sui generis, «a unique word for the Unique Word.»

Naming abortion a sui generis conflict of life with life, most mainline Protestant denominations have affirmed that abortion should be rare but also legal.

But if regions are interpreted as Cobb now says he wants to interpret them, viz., as sui generis potentials which do not originate, then regions are not what is involved in relating God and other actual entities.

Let us suppose that we accept Cobb's thesis that the extensive continuum is a sui generis «form of potentiality.»

But because of the common bond in God's covenant promises, its relationship to the Jewish people is sui generis.

Consciousness seems quite sui generis.

Edith Stein, however, «comes across as sui generis,» the «most uniquely problematic Jew... since Saul of Tarsus» because none of those dismissive explanations apply.

To David Smolin: When I stated that Edith Stein is an apostate from Judaism sui generis, I did not mean to imply that other Jews have not converted to Christianity for similarly sincere religious motives.

As a social scientist Berger avoids taking the position that religion is an irreducible reality sui generis (i.e., in a class all its own), as does someone like Ninian Smart, the popular professor of comparative religions, in his book The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge (1973).

Such a view clearly not only leaves room for, but requires that there be, sui generis, new order in the evolution of mind.

Only during the last two have I been made conscious of the fact that a Holocaust survivor is a distinctive kind of person, not just one who underwent a special experience, but almost a person sui generis — because the Holocaust itself was sui generis.

The Holocaust, whether or not sui generis, was a single event.

In Roman Catholicism, for example, one goes from the official condemnation of the «modernists» in an early part of this century to what might be appropriately described as the dominant position today, found in Pope Pius XII's Human generis (1950), which, concerning the relation between evolution and creation, accepts evolution yet insists on the special, «second» creation of the human soul.

But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique.

The composition of the bottom 20 percent is sui generis.

In struggling to make sense of a sui generis theological phenomenon, they did their best with the most accessible concepts available.

Although there was more personal freedom in the Low Countries than in the rest of Europe, the establishment of the United States of America was new for the rights of man, sui generis, an exemplar of freedom.

And to this extent an actual entity is sui generis.

Consciousness is sui generis an aspect of existence.

Dylan projects a narrative voice into his work, so that there is a thin line, and much ambiguity, between first - person confession andsui generis invention.

A human community, therefore, is sui generis.

As Dixon Wecter remarks in The Saga of American Society, TheCountry Club has never assumed a place name because «it is sui generis, like the roc's egg.»)

So far we have treated IS as hostis humani generis.

11:57 a.m. Lots of use of «sui generis» by Paterson.

Thus, current Europeanists mainly defend the sui generis character of the EU — particularly its combination of supranational and intergovernmental features — and the new and original form of democracy it is supposed to embody and the «multi-level» governance of which it is a part.

The European Union has a unique sui generis status on the international plane, which is reflected in its capability to enter into diplomatic relations with third states and international organizations.

The sui generis lens of institutionalised religion ex post facto can not always be sufficient in explaining theological concepts; and there is a need, time and time again, to examine and assess religious concepts philosophically, in their own right, so that we may arrive at a more holistic understanding of the meanings they ought to generate.

These include the need for a purposively broad, liberal and benevolent interpretation of the Constitution as a whole, so far as the language of the constitution would admit, having due regard to the underlying values and principles that need to be promoted to safeguarded our system of participatory democracy, the principle that the constitution is a document sui generis, and allied to this, the principle that the constitution must be interpreted in the light of its own words, and not words found in some other written constitution» (Writ No: JI / 15/2015 [unreported] pages 23 & 24).

Specifically, since as a pirate is considered hostes humani generis (enemy of the human race), a merchant ship could kill pirates with impunity and probably pass any legal challenges in their next port of call.

«Insurgencies are sui generis; each takes place within its own social, cultural, and political milieu.

Online becoming sui generis incomparabl Russia Ukraine junket.

Even so, Otto is just such a sui generis creation: an absurdist embodiment of American idiocy as seen through English eyes, vulgar yet weirdly graceful, prone to venting his frustration («I'm disaPPOINTED!!!»)

Acting dynasties — like any kind of dynasty — rarely produce talents as great as Geraldine Chaplin, Charlie's daughter, who ended up a sui generis figure in cinema history herself.

Wiseau appears in The Disaster Artist practically sui generis, the embodiment of a peculiar iteration of the American Dream, the self - made man.

She was sui generis, a brilliant chronicler of the anomie of the disaffected denizens of our modern world.

Rodriguez winks and tries maybe too hard; Tarantino, being the sui generis of a very specific kind of film, proceeds to create something that resembles Vanishing Point and Two - Lane Blacktop while steering clear of irony, self - indulgence, and post-modernism in its reverence.

Perhaps his most important partnership was with Jean - Pierre Melville, the sui generis director often seen as a link between the classical era and the New Wave (and whose centenary falls on October 20, 2017).

So I don't think anyone was quite prepared for the visionary, jaw - dropping spectacle that greeted us at Holy Motors» first press screening last night — a work so sui generis, so vast in scope, and so meticulously realized that you can easily imagine Carax having spent every waking hour of the past 13 years working on it — and many non-waking hours to boot, given its dreamlike, surrealistic modus operandi.