Sentences with phrase «mere physical act»

This implies that sex is no mere physical act performed solely for the sensory stimulation it brings.

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C. Feasting Special moments in the Israelites» lives often included a feast, a meal that went beyond mere physical maintenance and became an act of play.

As we have seen, physical acting must be fundamentally a relating, and relating can not be understood in terms of mere «impact,» for this can result at most in only change of place — and indeed, as was clear to thinkers like Descartes, Newton, Leibniz and Kant, on the conception of the physical as in itself passive «matter,» even change of place could not occur upon mere impact, there being necessary also an «act» setting the impacted body into motion.

The reason for this is that physical acting is not either simply fortuitous change nor is it a mere mechanical interconnection; physical acting as a relating is «directed to» another entity, and this entails the factor of «end» — this is not a mere anthropomorphic projection; the concept of «end» is implied in the concept of «acting.»

This description moves breastfeeding away from mere physical nourishment to embrace its being a communicative act as well.

Several officers used chokeholds as a «first act of physical force» in response to a «mere verbal confrontation,» rather than deescalating the situation, according to the report.

Where goods are being hauled pursuant to contract with such an entity (i.e., a mere customer), the following rule would generally apply: «As a general rule, a hirer of an independent contractor is not liable for physical harm caused to others by the act or omission of the independent contractor.»