Sentences with phrase «inert by»

I use only pencil and a very little white paint against a field of action I render at once active and inert by making it entirely white.

Paul Noble may have initially been the popular, and the bookies» favourite, but as technically impressive as his panoramic drawings are they are also quite lifeless, made inert by the process of their meticulous execution.

The old Mercedes E63 used to feel more involving next to the RS6, which is rather inert by comparison.

Despite agreeably short running time and committed performances, Edmond is rendered inert by its stagy atmosphere and failure to fully mine the depths of its protagonist's complex psyche.

They suspect that something in fermentation and baking processes unleash phenolic acids otherwise rendered inert by being bound to other plant materials in flour.

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By contrast, fusion would produce no waste, just inert helium, and its fuel can be extracted from seawater.

Without having these at regular intervals, the entire multi-billion-dollar advertising industry would be struck inert, like kids whose soccer ball has just been run over by a bus.

With pro-Constantinople forces promoting the Council and pro-Moscow forces generally opposing the endeavor, the majority of primates remain inert with their attention being consumed by local concerns and jurisdictional disputes.

Scripture is not, for Wycliffe, an inert text that must be brought by interpretation into accord with theological positions.

The body is not an inert substance which is put into action by explicit acts of intending.

It is for him bad faith for the for - itself to allow itself to be informed by the inert in - itself.

Much ecotheology, process theology and creation spirituality go even further by arguing against the traditional split between inert, value - free nature and a transcendent God, and by arguing that God acts in and through the processes of nature, which are reconceived as sacred or spiritual.

Appropriately, Eslick writes: «It is likely the polemic against substance was originally motivated by Whitehead's reaction against mechanistic materialism, in which substances are inert, vacuous pieces of matter or stuff» (SCCW 504).

His story «The Gold - Crowned Jesus» portrays Christ as an inert figure of gold imprisoned in concrete by his political and religious oppressors.

Interestingly enough, if we have regard for the way Whitehead speaks of experience rather than the way he interprets it, we would certainly be led to believe that he is including something more than inert objects actively prehended by a subject.

The object exerts its causal influence not by acting upon the subject, but solely as being inert, stubborn fact exacting conformity.

Second, epistemologically speaking, Bergson means by «matter» the way in which the intellect approaches all things (whether vital or inert) as if they were simply the sums of their parts — parts that are subject to being disassembled and re-assembled in any order whatsoever to serve the abstract ends of the intellect itself or the purposes of the organism that intellect serves.

This notion of the inert, non-resistive and unthinking nature of the Paraiyars is indeed a stereotype posited by the caste communities.

The facts of science are not hard, cold, inert chunks of objective information lying about in the external world waiting to be discovered and accumulated by the industrious investigator.

Temperature becomes uniform by heat conduction and after that the whole system fades away into a dead, inert «lump of matter.»

But men are called to in this fateful and choice - laden situation by no inert holiness ossified in his own perfections.

The doctrine (widely held until recently) that «matter» itself is fully real (rather than an abstraction, derived from intellectual analysis of concrete really - existing things, as Aristotle held), and that such self - subsistent «matter» is intrinsically inert (as opposed to self - organizing), arguably reached its full flower in the late Renaissance.18 Part of contemporary divergence between theistic and naturalistic approaches may be understood to arise from overly complete internalization (by both naturalists and theists) of the cosmology that emerged from the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century — the cosmology in which «matter» was full real, but intrinsically inert.

It is by avoiding the rapid decay into an inert system of equilibrium that a thunderstorm appears so extraordinary.

However, if you're really determined, you can always think of yet another far - fetched factor or explanation, such as matter that comes into existence all by itself, an infinite number of universes in which every possibility has happened or will happen in its own universe, life and consciousness spontaneously arising out of inert matter, etc..

Newtonian physics placed this metaphysical view into question when it regarded nature as inert mass, i.e., dead matter, moved from without by efficient causality.

The temptation to determinism in our thinking arises from the fact that the bulk of nature, the mineral level studied by geology, physics or inorganic chemistry is constituted by aggregates of occasions so conforming to their past that any present state in this inert realm seems to be the purely passive recipient of a series of events leading up to it.

When «an inert mass of fact and idea... is handed in small pieces by the teacher to the student then the heart of intellectual inquiry is betrayed».

Conway Morris is part of an increasingly prominent school in the philosophy of biology which offers a refreshingly new stance, one in which the biological universe is not merely an inert petri dish in which purely random genetic diversity andmutation have resulted by Darwinian «survival of the fittest».

He reminds us that science is still ignorant of the chemical pathways that wonderfully allowed the inert chemicals of the earth's early history to form the more complex chemicals needed by even the simplest living organisms.

The protest blocked Interstate 94 in St. Paul for more than five hours before officers were able to move them off of the highway by beginning arrests after tear gas, inert smoke and marking rounds failed to get the crowd to disperse.

The first, superficial impression is not erased by more thorough acquaintance with theological schools; many instances of self - satisfied provincialism, inert traditionalism and specious modernization tend to confirm it.

The universe is not a dark, inert set of atoms governed by physical laws that are mere projections of human effort but show that science itself indicates that the universe, indeed all things, are governed by a Unity - Law of Control and Direction, an intrinsic relationality, that God is «the sunshine of the soul» and His Son, Jesus, is our Saviour and Redeemer.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity — no longer indeterminate, amorphous and inert, but directed, guided, dynamized by the growth of a fundamental impulse which underlies and sustains them.

Like the figure created by Dr. Frankenstein, the monster comes to life by a scientific manipulation of inert forms.

As synthetic inert ingredients as classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for use with nonsynthetic substances or synthetic substances listed in this section and used as an active pesticide ingredient in accordance with any limitations on the use of such substances.

A pure product is also near the top of their agenda and the inert nature of glass means that the consumer receives precisely the same, great tasting gin which was created by the connoisseur distillers across the country.

However, the shelf life can be extended by using appropriate packaging technology, i.e. packing the powder under an inert gas such as N2.

Hydroponics is the science of growing plants without soil using an inert medium (sand or gravel) and a water and nutrient solution containing all the elements required by the plant for normal growth.

Replacement of oxygen with sugar solution or inert gas, consuming the oxygen by glucose - oxidase and / or the use of vacuum and oxygen - impermeable films are some of the methods currently employed for packaging frozen fruits.

He believed that without any parental interactions, babies would become flabby and inert and could develop rickets or marasmus (Bryder 2003,), Linda Bryder states in her book «A Voice for Mothers ``, that according to King's method the amount of care given by a parent to their child should not be lacking but rather controlled and consistent.

The coin is protected by a rigid inert plastic shell that is sonically sealed to provide a virtually airtight environment.

By making your own stay dry inerts you can now simply lay them on top of an unstuffed pocket and voila you have a simple and cost effective All in Two system without having to do too much sewing wizardry.

Ion engines work by stripping electrons from the atoms of an inert gas such as xenon, making them positively charged.

Twice a day, 37 people swallowed an inert pill could not be absorbed by the body.

According to Ted Kaptchuk at Harvard Medical School and his colleagues at least one condition can be calmed by placebo, even when everyone knows it's just an inert pill.

The work built off a seminal finding by Gao and colleagues, published in 2007 in Nature Nanotechnology, showing that nanoparticles, long believed to be biologically and chemically inert, could in fact possess enzyme - like properties.

Like those who were pondering these problems a century ago, we are still in search of an affordable alchemy that turns solid waste into an inert, hazard - free, usable by - product such as bricks or glass.

If Toby Pereira thinks xenon and argon are used by athletes as inert gases to simulate altitude training, he might...

The inert gas has been used for the first time to try and reduce the impact of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) caused by blasts such as those in conflict zones and terror attacks.

Viruses technically are not alive, but there is some stage that's sort of in between inert and going through a living stage by hijacking the machinery of cells.